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View looking northwest towards downtown from State Capitol steps, Denver, Colorado, includes cable street cars, carriages, Engine Company No. 1's victorian firehouse across the intersection of Broadway and Colfax and the Arapahoe County Courthouse in distant haze. Signs on billboards and foreground businesses read: "Palace Stables," "Plymouth Hotel," "$25.00 Rio Grande," "Denver Clothes Pressing Co., $3.00 for 3 Months," "Automobiles, Repairs, Storage."
Rooftop view of downtown Denver, Colorado. Buildings include the Arapahoe County Courthouse, Majestic Building, and the YMCA Building.
Rooftop view of downtown Denver, Colorado. Buildings include the Arapahoe County Courthouse. Signs read: "The Shannon Reid Plumbing and Heating Co" and "Uhland's Drug Store."

Point of View: Photographs taken from the Colorado State Capitol Building

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

View of a Denver and Rio Grande Railroad train at Maysville (Chaffee County), Colorado.  Shows locomotive number 52 and box cars on the bridge at the North Fork of the South Arkansas River. Men in work clothes stand on and near the train, snow covered mountains are in the distance.
View of Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho shows a Northern Pacific train near the shore with a boat and boathouse nearby. Mountains are in the distance.
View of Argentine Central Railway narrow gauge track with push car near timberline, Argentine Pass, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Waldorf Mine distant center; Rocky Mountains with snowfields; man on push car with derby hat.

Railroads in the West

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

Harry M. Rhoads, behind the steering wheel, poses in a convertible with passenger in front of Westminster University or College, at 3455 West 83rd Avenue in Westminster (Adams County), Colorado. Animals graze in the barren field in which the building is situated. Architectural features of the building: sandstone construction, 175-foot tower with a hipped roof, conical towers, square towers, arched and square windows and entrances, gables, and chimneys.
View of an O'Malley-Kelley Oil and Auto Supply Company delivery truck in Denver, Colorado. Lettering on the side of the cab reads: "Zuni St & Lake Place."
View of Welton Street in Denver, Colorado; shows parked cars, pedestrians, and business signs: "Jim Furlong Loans," "Baker Hotel," and "Estes Hotel."

Sedans, Coupes and Tin Lizzies ~ The Early Days of the Automobile

Interior view of a lunch counter at the Home Public Market, in Denver, Colorado; shows a man, women including Ruth Handler [third from right], a neon sign, tile floor, a United States flag, and signs: "Coca Cola," "Watermelon on Ice," "Beer On Draught," and "Greenwald's Soda Fountain."
A young woman fishes with a bamboo pole, in (probably) Colorado or Utah; she wears hip waders and stands in the river. Her outfit also includes short-legged bib-overalls and a straw hat.
Two African American (Black) men shake hands in front of a Standard gas station at 29th and Colorado Boulevard in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado.

About Page Images

View from the Ore Bucket Lodge in Crested Butte, Colorado; shows the silhouettes of an ore bucket hanging from a rafter on a chain, and a large tree branch laying under the bucket; two large stone columns and a roof form a frame for the two objects; image taken from shadow into light; residences and mountains in the background.
Interior view of the machine shop of General Iron Works at 1245 Osage Street in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Manhole covers, molds, machinery, and mobile overhead cranes are in the warehouse building.
A Tenth Mountain Division soldier enjoys the beach at Trieste with a woman. Both wear bathing costumes and pose for the camera. Behind them the beach is filled with other sun worshipers.

Double Takes

2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games held in Olympia, Greece on Wednesday, August 18th, 2004
Chromatography Column
I-25 in foul weather

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Muscleman
Dignitaries
Gambling Bust

Denver Post Photograph Collection

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