Curated Galleries

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

View of concession stands at Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside (Jefferson County), Colorado. Signs read: "Penny Arcade," "Fun Palace," "Skee Roll Alley," "Shooting Gallery," and "Sea Planes."

Men, women and children swim in the indoor pool at Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside (Jefferson County), Colorado. A girl prepares to go down a slide, and boys and men line up on a platform to use the diving board. Spectators lean against a fence.

View of Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside (Jefferson County), Colorado; people walk by a pavilion and the boat house. Lake Rhoda and Lakewood are in the background.

Lakeside Amusement Park

First house in Poverty Gulch, Cripple Creek, Colorado; house is possibly Robert Womack's cabin in Fremont (prior to Cripple Creek incorporation) or Andy Frazier's cabin in Squaw Gulch; the one-story rounded log cabin built into the hillside has a low gable sod roof; three men wearing three-piece suits and knee high boots pose outside cabin; one man leans on miner's pick while another man, wearing a derby hat, sits on stump; additional picks and shovel are near front side entrance of cabin.

A prospector with a sledgehammer stands outside his chink and log cabin in Teller County, Colorado; shows a cast-iron stove outside the door of the cabin, a jug, broom, lunch pail, pans, cans, and a dog and her puppies under a table.

Harry Leonard and Spencer Penrose stand in front of Tutt and Penrose cabin, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one-story log cabin built in 1891 with low gable and sod roof; two saddled horses are teethered to corner of cabin; cabin includes stovepipe and wooden plank leading to front door; sparsely settled hillsides are in the background.

Tiny Houses

Old Olsen's log and plank shack residence Petersburg (later Englewood), Arapahoe County, Colorado, includes a hand pump and washtub.

View of dilapidated cabins in Independence (Pitkin County), Colorado; features barren hills with new growth.

A dilapidated log and sheet metal shack stands on the verge of collapse at the Montezuma Mine, Pitkin County, Colorado.

Wow Photo Wednesday~ Ramshackle Houses

View of a covered patio in Denver, Colorado. Coffered ceilings, wrought iron lamps, couches, chairs, potted plants, and a tile floor comprise the decor. An open plaza is to the side.

Interior view of the Henry Viley Johnson residence in Denver, Colorado; decor includes a velvet couch with pillows, a mantle with mirror, and vase of peacock feathers.

Interior view at the Claude K. Boettcher residence, in Denver, Colorado; living room decor includes curved couches, chairs, an ottoman, glass tables, Corinthian capitols, a crystal chandelier, palms, and curtains.

Luxury Interiors of the West

Twelve young women stand in a line near a leafy bush and a rock wall in Eldorado Springs, Colorado. Each of the women has her right hand on the shoulder of the girl in front of her. A pennant flag with "Eldorado Spgs.," printed on it hangs from the waist belt of a girl.

Swimmers and onlookers are at the pool in Eldorado Springs, Colorado. A sign near the pool reads: "Warning Bathers Are Not Allowed To Use Pool Except When Life Guards Are On Duty."

Crowd of people gather around the swimming pool at the resort in Eldorado Springs, Colorado. South Boulder Creek is in the foreground and has a bridge over it. Other people walk from their cars towards the pool. A building with the sign "Grand View" is in the distance.

Pool Party In Eldorado Canyon

A woman poses outdoors near a shrub at her home in Denver, Colorado. She wears a long dress and a hat decorated with flowers.

Women hold drinks in glass bottles and, probably, fly a kite in their yard in Denver, Colorado. They wear long dresses.

Women pose on the base of a statue of Robert Burns in City Park, Denver, Colorado.

Denver Album (C Photo Album 188)