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Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Harry Rhoads

This gallery accompanies our biography of Harry Rhoads, the Rocky Mountain News photographer and famed Denver personality, who for 70 years documented life in Colorado. Over 2,500 of Harry Rhoads' photographs are in the Denver Public Library's Digital Collections database

Acclaimed Western Photographers

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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.

Harriet Rhoads, daughter of Harry M. Rhoads plays in the kitchen with her toy pots and stove, Denver, Colorado. Shows: cabinets, chair, rug.

Portrait of photographer Harry M. Rhoads, on stage in (probably) Denver, Colorado, wearing a wooden barrel, a Fedora hat, and camera equipment bags. A microphone is to the side.

A man dressed in a sailor uniform and a woman enjoy a day outdoors as they sit on a cot in a park or forest, probably in Colorado. An automobile is parked in the background. A man walks by behind them.

A man and woman pose. The woman wears a fur muff and fancy hat. Darkroom equipment and photographs are on interior walls.

Photographer Harry Rhoads sits on a rock in a suit and pith helmet; he holds binoculars and a rifle; a pistol is in his jacket pocket, probably Colorado.

Interior view of a home, probably in Denver, Colorado. Shows crystal chandeliers, oriental rugs, potted plants, lamps, furniture, drapery, decorative columns and molding.

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, from Broadway and 18th (Eighteenth) Street, of the Continental Oil building at 17th (Seventeenth) Street and Glenarm Place in Denver, Colorado. Automobiles line the street near Trinity Methodist Church. Signs read: "Conoco Products", "Chevrolet", "Sightseeing Office", "City Trip $1.00", "Lookout Mtn. $2.50", "Rocky Mountain Cleaners And Tailors Phone Champa 3035-W", "Photo-engravers Artists Burke-McMillin Engraving Co. Illustrators Designers", "Marion Cafe", and "Au-to Shades".

View of a convertible automobile by a lake, among trees, probably in Colorado.

Men, children and a woman pose on a sled near the David Moffat mansion at 808 Grant Street in Denver, Colorado; shows Bert Rhoads (1st on sled), Charles Gates (waving), Hazel Rhoads Gates (holding onto her hat) and Harry Fisher Rhoads (holding one of the Gates' daughters).

Boy Scouts of America troop members and their troop leader look down a fire pole hole in a Denver, Colorado firehouse.

View of a car mired in mud by a river, (probably) in Colorado; a man lifts the spare tire from the back of the vehicle.

A man in a porter uniform talks to a woman seated on a wooden bench at Union Station, in Denver, Colorado. The woman wears a fur coat and has a suitcase.

A man stands near his automobile that is stuck in a creek in Colorado.

Members of the Georgia Lane Group, from the Georgia Lane School of Dancing, pose in a chorus line in Denver, Colorado; the women wear taffeta headdresses, skirts with fringe, and halter tops. Sarah Francis "Sally" Orr is in the center of the chorus line.

Women sit around a desk in Colorado. A woman in high heeled shoes has her feet up, by a telephone and typewriter.

A view of the old City Hall located at 14th (Fourteenth) and Larimer Streets in Denver, Colorado. Shows a three story building with a clock tower, it was built in 1886 and demolished in 1936.

A woman smiles, she poses with a line of puppy dogs eating from bowls, probably in Denver, Colorado.

Interior view house shows women posing on a staircase in possibly Denver, Colorado.

A man poses with women dancers in matching costumes and shoes inside a revolving tube ride at Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver, Colorado.

View of a horse, buggy, man and woman, in (probably) Denver, Colorado. Frame residences are in the background.

Young women and teenaged girls smile and pose in swimming suits in front of a panel truck full of snow or other material. Four of the women sit on the snow? or other material in the truck bed.

View of a car / streetcar crash; people look on, and signs read: "Knights Templar Easter Service," "40," and "803."

Men pose with a dog; clothing includes hats and suspenders; one man smokes a pipe, probably in Colorado.

Men, boys, and girls pose with a burro in Chicago (Cook County), Illinois; and signs: "Zephyr Dawn to Dusk Club" and "ZEPH Denver to Chicago May 26, 1934." A Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad locomotive is in the background. Fred G. Gurley, later president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, is fourth from the right, with the wire rim glasses.

A girl sits on a stool in front of the porch of a home in Denver, Colorado. A boy is seated behind her and uses a paint brush on the back of the young girl's coat. On the ground is a palette with brushes, paint cans, and a bottle.

A woman christens an airplane by breaking a bottle over its propeller as men in uniform and a woman look on in possibly Denver, Colorado.

Actor Tom Mix poses with two unidentified women in Denver, Colorado. He wears a cowboy hat, boots, riding pants, coat, and tie. One woman wears a fur stole over her dress.

Interior pipe railed metal balconies front cell blocks at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, after the riot of 1929. Doors are open, fire damage consists of debris and holes in the roof.

Photographer Harry M. Rhoads poses in costume. He wears a floral patterned women's bathing suit with a matching bonnet and hand bag, women's shoes and black socks.

People with umbrellas crowd Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica (Los Angeles County) California. Shows businesses and the Ocean Park Bath House, a Moorish style building with arches and domes.

A man and woman pose by an automobile, wreckage, and interior store walls.

Harry Rhoads holds a piece of watermelon with his daughter Mary Elizabeth (Mitzi) at a gathering in Colorado.