Denver Mashups

Choose a picture from this collection of historic photos of Denver and Colorado, then see if you can find the same spot today to replicate the photo. Some landmarks are gone, some have grown, and some have barely changed.

Mash the old and the new together using Photoshop to reveal the ghosts of Denver's past and present! Learn how to do mashups here!

Snow is piled up in front of the Assay Office of Welch and Bancroft on Eldorado Avenue in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. An unidentified man sts on a log in the left midground at the base of a mound of snow where two young boys play. One of the boys holds a sled propped up on one end. The other stands above him on the pile, possibly wearing skis.

10th Mountain Division soldiers parade down a street at Camp Hale, Colorado. They are wearing their "whites" the winter camouflage uniforms and carry white skis on their right shoulder as rifles are normally carried while on parade.

View of the State Capitol building in Denver, Colorado. Men and women walk on the steps in front of the building.

Four musicians (two women and two men) pose for a photo at Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, Colorado, near a sounding board. One man holds a cello, a woman sits at a portable piano, and two singers stand Wooden planks are on the ground in the foreground.

A woman in a sweater and a plaid skirt stands on a rock and looks at rock formations in Red Rocks Park, a Denver Mountain Park in Jefferson County, Colorado. Shows a dirt path, flagstone stairs and stone retaining walls.

View of 17th (Seventeenth) Street in Denver, Colorado; shows automobile and bus traffic, and the Brown Palace Hotel.

Welcome Arch at Union Station in Denver, Colorado; view of 17th (Seventeenth) street, street railway car number 248, men and women walking towards Union Station (not in view), horse-drawn carriages and a touring sightseeing coach parked at curb, Hendrie-Bolthoff building, Elk Hotel, bar, restaurant, drugstore, and the Struby-Estabrook Mercantile Company.

View of the Mizpah Arch and Union Station in Denver, Colorado. United States flags hang over 16th (Sixteenth) Street and parked cars.

View of 17th (Seventeenth) Street toward Union Station and Mizpah or "Welcome" Arch, Denver, Colorado. The arch was dedicated July 4, 1906. Both sides carried the word "Welcome" until 1908, when the word "Mizpah" replaced one side.

View of Union Station, in Denver, Colorado; also shows cars, the clock, and the Mizpah Arch.

A man hauls his wagon load of snow past the Pioneer Monument on Cheyenne Street towards Civic Center, Denver, Colorado. The Scholtz Drug Company, Capitol Store, the State Capitol Building and the First United Presbyterian Church show in distance.

Fire Chief John F. Healy poses in uniform by a Fire Department vehicle (Lincoln sedan) in Civic Center park, Denver, Colorado. The automobile has a bell and siren. The Voorhies Memorial Colonnade, Carnegie Library, and Arapahoe County Courthouse dome are in the background.

View of west facade entry of East High School from City Park Esplanade and Sixteenth Street, Denver, Colorado; brick and terra cotta building with clock tower; shows man seated on front steps under arched entry, trees, hedges and flowers, concrete curbs, and streetlights along streets.

A view of Ashland School, located on West 29th (Twenty-ninth) Avenue in Denver, Colorado. North High School was also in This building until 1911.

View of West High School, in Denver, Colorado; also shows a park with landscaping and letters in flowers: "Sunken Gardens."

View of a man and horse-drawn carriage at the City Park Pavilion, Denver, Colorado.

A young woman poses on a pillar in Smith Lake at Washington Park, Denver, Colorado. A sign on the nearby boardwalk over the water reads: "Women Only Do Not Go Out In The Lake Beyond The Depth Of Your [?]".