Curated Galleries

Top Hat Beer label, circa 1965. Ephemera Collection, WH2026

Aspen Gold label, circa 1968. Ephemera Collection, WH2026

Jet Malt Liquor label, circa 1967. Ephemera Collection, WH2026

Tivoli Brewing Company Labels

In Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, the Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College men's swim team poses in their trunks by an interior swimming pool. They are identified as: (L to R) (back) - Dick Conner - Russ Lawrence - Bill Evans (Capt.) - Carl Baily - Dick Benninghoven - Don Rupp - Jim Hurry - GW Tompkins (Tommy) coach (L to R) (front) - Gene Culver - Reyn Robertson - Jerry Darden - John Ehrenreich - Leon Schull - and John Emry."

Firemen pose with dinnerware at Joe (Awful) Coffee's Ringside Lounge in Denver, Colorado. The room has floral wallpaper.

Portrait of a football team in Trinidad, Colorado. Teenage boys and young men in white, numbered jerseys are posed, the ones sitting in the front have their helmets on the grass in front of their cleated shoes. Two men in ballcaps and jackets with large "T" patches flank the standing row. Power poles and a three-story, flat roofed cream colored brick building is in the background.

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ Joe "Awful" Coffee

Baobab Tree, Africa

Mount Llampu from La Paz, Bolivia.

Mountain Snow Melt

Deco Trefoil ~ Denver Equipment Company Newsletter

View of the garages and tool shed at the Willis Case Municipal Golf Course (formerly Rocky Mountain Golf Course) in Denver, Colorado. Round and rectangular planters are near the buildings.

View of the women's restroom at Berkeley Park in Denver, Colorado. The stone building has a tiled roof and a painted sign that reads: "Ladies".

View of a water pump house at the Wellshire Golf Course (Wellshire Country Club) in Denver, Colorado. A sign that reads "Danger" is on a door of the building.

The Parks Album

View of a Cherry Creek flood in Denver, Colorado after the Castlewood Canyon Dam break; shows an expanse of water and landscaping at the Sunken Gardens.

View of a Cherry Creek flood in Denver, Colorado after the Castlewood Canyon Dam break; shows the Broadway Street bridge, people, and a car dealership with a smokestack and signs: "Continental, Buick."

View of a Cherry Creek flood in Denver, Colorado after the Castlewood Canyon Dam break; shows muddy water, landscaping, and people.

1933 Cherry Creek Flood

A young woman poses in a costume that includes shorts, high heels, print fabric, and a stovepipe hat.

Studio portrait of E. M. Winterbourne. He wears glasses, a suit, and tie.

Colorado City Hose Team pose in front of the diagonal batten door outside the brick fire station, South Twenty-sixth and Cucharas streets, El Paso County, Colorado. The men stand wearing dark underwear shirts and shorts with arms crossed and their brass hose nozzle proudly on display in front of them.

Hipster or History?

Oak Street filled with mud and debris from the disastrous Cornet Creek flood on July 27, 1914, Telluride, Colorado. Jack Hawkins' two-story wood frame Victorian with front wraparound porch and second-story bay window tilts on side from flood waters; smaller wood frame structure with front intersecting gables destroyed in foreground; cliffs in background.

View northwest down Colorado Avenue after the Cornet Creek flood on July 27, 1914, Telluride, Colorado; shows First National Bank Building on corner of Fir and Colorado, three false front businesses, the Sheridan Hotel, the San Miguel County Courthouse, and mud and debris- filled street. Townspeople are near the bank and in distance in front of the Sheridan with a horse and automobile; electric and telephones lines cross street; chairs and tables are part of debris.

View north up mud and debris-filled street from the disastrous Cornet Creek flood on July 27, 1914, Telluride, Colorado; shows two-story false front, Iowa House on corner, and residence across street.

The Cornet Creek Flood of 1914

Children eat at tables in a W.P.A. nursery school in Denver, Colorado; food includes cake and tin cups of milk.

Work Projects Administration (WPA) railroad construction workers in overalls and fedoras use a hammers and a crowbar to install rails at a switch on railroad tracks near Lowry Air Force Base in the Lowry Field neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a railroad signal and a culvert beside the tracks. The tracks were constructed to connect Lowry to the Union Pacific Railroad line.

African American soldiers in uniform and women laugh as they stand near, or sit on, a piano at a W.P.A. armed forces center in Denver, Colorado. The women wear dresses, one has on strap heeled shoes.

Works Progress Administration Photographs

A small group of people are gathered in a bullfight arena.

The bullfight on August 24 or 25, 1895, takes place in the bullring built at the race track in Gillett, Colorado, for the occasion. Joe Wolfe was the organizer of the event which caused a scandal because of its cruelty to animals. The bull lunges as the matador waves his cape; another bullfighter is in the ring and a mounted picador carries a lances. Spectators are in the stands behind the wood fence.

The bullfight on August 24 or 25, 1895, takes place in the bullring built at the race track in Gillett, Colorado, for the occasion. Joe Wolfe was the organizer of the event which caused a scandal because of its cruelty to animals. A bullfighter waves his cape at the bull, who paws the ground, while the matador looks on. The mounted picadors carry lances; one of the horsemen is seven-foot-tall, long-haired Charlie Meadows, Joe Wolfe's partner. Spectators are in the stands behind the wood fence.

Colorado Bullfighting