14th Street Viaduct Construction, Denver 1898 | X-18018
14th Street Viaduct Construction, Denver 1898 | X-18018
The Working West
Inspired by "The Way We Worked," an exhibition created by the National Archives and part of Museum on Main Street, and a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Colorado Humanities, it seemed appropriate that the Western History Department's Digital Collections should throw our hat into the ring, with a few of our many, many wonderful photographs of working life in Colorado and the West. Tour the gallery below, and then explore our online collections, for a seemingly endless trove of photographs of fields, factories and machinery, and the men and women who work them.
Photo Gallery:
Canning fruit for hot lunch project
[between 1938 and 1943?]
Construction scene laying pipe
[between 1904 and 1915?]
Butchers
1917?
Yule quarry - crane and power house facilities of the Yule Marble Co. near the head of Yule Creek, south of Marble, Colorado
[between 1913 and 1917]
A good illustration of the use of tin cans and pressure cookers on a small canning unit
[between 1940 and 1950?]
Ribbons of gold under slanting ribbons of sunshine, the metamorphosis of steel wire is completed
[between 1950 and 1970?]
Add new comment