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Acclaimed Western Photographers

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.

View of three of the twenty-eight domes in the ceiling of the Colorado Mineral Palace, Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Each dome is decorated with Colorado wildflowers.

A view a building with four porch entrances. The sandstone row house features towers, bays, porches, recessed porches, transom windows, arches, stone chimneys and a carriage portico.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ William Henry Jackson

View of a Native American (Ute) scouting party mounted on horseback as they cross the Los Pinos river, La Plata County, Colorado; three men have rifles, one a pistol; men wear moccasins, fringed leggings, blankets, shirts, and braided hair; some have feathers in their hair; all horses have bridles and saddles.

View, facing southeast, of ancient Native American (Anasazi) cliff dwellings before excavation on Chapin Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma County, Colorado. The stone masonry and mud mortar Cliff Palace pueblo homes stand underneath a cliffside overhang. The cylindrical and square ruins have square and T-shaped door openings. Crumbled masonry litters the ground.

Native American (Cochiti) woman and a white boy stand in front of a pueblo wall and wire fence, Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. The woman carries a handcrafted pot on her head. She wears a print dress with a cloth belt and ruffled hem, and a shawl over her head. The boy wears a shirt and overalls.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Horace S. Poley

People crowd the 16th (Sixteenth) Street entrance of the Tabor Theater in Denver, Colorado. The marquee reads: "Joel McCrea and Wanda Hendrix on the Stage, World Premiere of Saddle Tramp."

A man and woman eat sandwiches in (probably) Denver, Colorado; a baby hangs in a canvas baby carrier (cradleboard) from a hook on the wall.

A teenage newspaper delivery boy, with a "Denver Post" newspaper bag, walks down stairs in Estes Park (Larimer County), Colorado; a Newfoundland dog is with him.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Lloyd Rule

Four Native American women, including Louise Kumkumpoo Qumqmtpu, Agate Ogden Finley, Mrs. Latati and Agnes Incashola, pose with two small children on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. The women all wear their hair in braids. Their dresses are made from floral and checkered patterned materials. Each of them also wears several necklaces around her neck. Three of the women hold patterned, wool blankets. A long, wood building is in the left background.

Antoine Ninamee and Loma Charlemain, two Native American boys on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, sit near a creek. The young man in the foreground wears a loincloth and squats down next to the creek scooping water into his hands. The other young man sits in the left background near a pile of clothing. He wears his hair in braids. Numerous trees stand along the creek.

Red Horn and Antoine

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Edward H. Boos

A.D. Breed, Eben Smith, Wm. Bryant

View of Echo Lake near Mount Evans in Clear Creek County, Colorado; pine forest and narrow beaches surround the water. Cumulus clouds top snow dotted mountain peaks in the distance.

An unidentified woman sits on a large boulder near Long Lake west of Ward in Boulder County, Colorado. Additional smaller boulders are also in the foreground. Tall pine trees stand along the shore of the lake in the background. A ridge of mountains is in the distance.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Donald Kemp

A Native American man stands next to a tuff cliffside with eroded holes enlarged by ancestral Pueblo Indians for dwellings and ceremonial spaces, Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico; became Bandelier National Monument in 1916.

Windows and bird nest holes show in the soft volcanic rock of a verticle tuff cliffside with natural caves, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.

View along a soft volcanic tuff cliffside with natural caves, enlarged to create living and ceremonial spaces by ancestral Pueblo Indians, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ George Beam

View of a car on the Taylor State Road, in Glenwood Canyon (Eagle or Garfield County) Colorado; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad tracks are across the Colorado River.

View of Addie Mellon and Harry Fisher Rhoads, parents of Harry M. Rhoads, with an electric automobile in front of City Park pavilion, Denver, Colorado.

A small boy cries, climbing the side of his crib.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Harry Rhoads

Children's toys at Healy House

Hamill House, Georgetown, Colorado

Exterior view of "Gargoyle" House, 302 West Pitkin Avenue, Pueblo, Colorado, shows a two-story rock-faced stone residence with corner tower, turret, balustrade, and semi-elliptical double-arched porch.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Sandra Dallas

Outdoor portrait of a boy and his dog on the porch of a house in Denver, Colorado. The boy wears knickers and a wide-brimmed hat.

Outdoor portrait of men, women, girls, boys, and teenagers at a picnic in a Denver, Colorado park; costume includes a large hats with flowers. A man in military uniform eats a banana; a boy holds a a United States flag.

Outdoor portrait of a group of men near the South Platte River in Denver, Colorado. Some of the men wear baseball uniforms that read: "[?]land".

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Charles Lillybridge

View of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona and Colorado River from Rowe's Point, also called Hopi Point.

Partial view of Lily Lake near Marble, Colorado; shows lily pads and man fishing from row boat.

Divine Science Church, Fourteenth Avenue and Williams Street, Denver, Colorado, a Beaux-Arts style structure with a flat roof, curved entry with arches, and columns with corinthian columns.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Louis Charles McClure

Jazz Enthusiast

Darkroom Sign

Darkroom Sign

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Burnis McCloud

Native American Women

Portraits

Barry's Studio in Superior, Wisconsin

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ David Francis Barry

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