Galleries by Randel Metz

Cañon City Penitentiary

Cañon City Penitentiary
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Chained to a flatbed truck at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, is a wheel-mounted artillery, 75 millimeter field piece from the National Guard firing range in Golden. It was used during the October 3 riot after dynamite failed to roust the ringleaders. A man in gaiters moves metal ammunition boxes. Windows in the stone wall and guard tower are broken.
Artillery used during prison riot 75 millimeter fielpiece.
1929
Guards adjust straps on a man posed in the chair in the gas chamber at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. He wears pants, belt, shoes, and a tube connected to his chest. Flashbulb glare reflects from interior glass, and a perforated metal conduit shield is on the floor. A hinge and rubber seals are in the foreground.
Gas chamber
1966
Black and white convicts at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, work in the prison laundry. The interior ceiling is open- beamed, and a riveted metal tank below has pipes, valves and a gauge; men stand on it, hanging clothes to dry. Others sit on a cot below playing a card game.
State prison boiler room : prisoners doing laundry and playing cards
[between 1920 and 1930?]
View of the Territorial Prison (later the Colorado State Penitentiary) building in Canon City (Fremont County), Colorado. Shows a two story stone building with a mansard roof, chimneys, and dormers.
1st bldg.
1869
A man poses strapped to a chair in the gas chamber at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. He wears pants, belt and shoes; a tube connected to his chest is linked to a stethoscope under a window on the exterior of the unit. The door has a wheel closure; adjacent pipes are topped with wheel valves. A lever and spring are in back, a white plastic jar is atop the door mechanism.
Ready for execution
1966
Convicts play basketball at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. An armed guard watches from the metal roofed admissions building, with its anemometer. Hoops and backboards are mounted on the rock wall, and prisoners sit on top and lean on the railing. Stairs connect the two levels. Men sit on a dirt pile in the foreground. Metal smokestack is in the background.
State Prison exercise yard
[between 1920 and 1930?]
A. H. Davis, convict at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, poses for his mug shot (front and profile) with a shaved head and a jacket with wide, horizontal stripes, and number card: 14847. His crime was highway robbery.
A.H. Davis alias James Harris, Albert Davis and Albert Harvey.
[between 1930 and 1940?]
Prisoners in aprons and bakers caps pose near bread stacked against a stone wall of the bakery at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City (Fremont County), Colorado. A man in a striped shirt, a bow tie, suspenders, light pants and a hat poses near the bakers. A fire hydrant is near the men.
Bakery had capacity of 1200 loaves of bread a day
ca. 1900
Gripping his tobacco pipe, the counselor at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, gestures with his other hand and grinds his teeth. He wears horn-rimmed glasses, a plaid flannel shirt, and a jacket. A Budweiser beer can holding pencils and an ashtray labelled "Fire Bucket" are on his desk; a bookcase is on the wall.
George Levy, M.A. CSP psychologist
1966
Holding a parakeet on her finger, This female inmate at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, aims a kiss at its beak. A potted philodendron and toothbrush are on the interior sill; bars and screen block the window.
Bird in a gilded cage
1959
A man stands on a wall next to two steel gates and the stone arched entry and guard tower at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City (Fremont County), Colorado. A man leans against a stone pillar near a wall that marks the entrance to the death cells. The buildings and prison walls are constructed of cut and rusticated stone.
Hanging cells
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Holding a ring of keys and a cigar, This uniformed Captain at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, operates a locking device next to hinged prison bars. A padded chair is in the background.
Captain at lock-up box State Prison
[between 1910 and 1930?]
Convicts march with arms crossed at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. The concrete wall next to them has barred windows. The inmates approach cell house #1, a three-story concrete building with barred windows.
Marching in line
1937
Convicts walk in the exercise yard at Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City (Fremont County) Colorado, after a prison riot. A cell block is in the background.
After the battle
1929
Bent over a wooden, upholstered frame, a prisoner at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, wears patched, striped prison pants. His ankles are shackled, and a man in a vest, gold chain and cowboy hat swings a hinged paddle, targeting the convict's buttocks. A wooden bucket is on the ground, for wetting the implement. Men in vests, ties, and straw hats look on.
Old gray mare
1890?
Retracted bars reveal the interior of This prison cell at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Porcelain sinks alternate with beds, and the wall is hung with framed images of puppies, a clipper ship, and men on a raft. A calendar has a picture of a hunter and dogs; with date: "March, 1944." Headphones, a scarf reading: "University of Colorado Buffaloes," a cutout of a rabbit, and a hand mirror hang from a shelf.
Typical cell
1944
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.
State prison cell block showing damage after 1929 riot
1929
A Colorado State Penitentiary guard in uniform looks on as a man bends over the "Old Gray Mare," a device used in Canon City, Fremont County, Colorado, at the prison, for disciplinary beatings. Rolled United States flags are on an interior shelf.
Old Gray Mare
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Black prisoners look at the Warden of the State Penitentiary, Canon City, Colorado. The interior of the basement holding cell has bars, gates, metal doors, and a ceiling lamp.
Warden Wayne K. Patterson and Sylester Garrison
1966
Interior, bracketed metal and pipe railed balconies top cells at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Iron gates are in the brick wall; one in the foreground is open. A writing slate hangs inside the cell, and the facing floor is strewn with blood, debris and a wooden chair. The row-lock is by the door, and a fallen beam leans on the balcony.
Colorado pen riots corridor where convicts committed suicide
1929
Men work at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Plank walls and roof surround an opening fronted by a channel in the foreground. With bags, shovels, and wheelbarrows, inmates are watched by men sitting on barrels in a mule drawn wagon. Power lines, railroad track, and low hills are in the background.
Picking potatoes : washing & packing 1920's
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Werner Carl Schwartzmiller with blood covered forehead lies on the floor of Warden Best's office. He was recaptured after leading the break from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. A paper matchbook, paper cup, and the shoes of his captors surround him. A metal clip connected to his bonds lies by his arm.
Werner Carl Schwartzmiller : the convict who kidnapped Guard Capt. Chet Wms. Yeo
1948
Laying on a wadded, pinstriped prison mattress at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, This recaptured escapee has his hand to his mouth. Men write on pads of paper; one wears a baseball cap. A man in a tweed jacket and smoking a cigarette is identified as Red Fenwick; he wears a fedora and square wristwatch. A man in the background leans on a wire chair against a wall.
Colorado penitentiary break 1947
1947
Black and white convicts at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, sit in pews on the sloping interior floor of the prison auditorium.
Prison auditorium
[betsween 1890 and 1900?]
Stone walls at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, have barred sash windows and a gate with iron fasteners. A frame guard shack with a stovepipe tops the wall; a man looks from the window. A faceted stone tower with sash windows and a cornice is behind, at the corner. Rough cut stone is piled at the base of the wall, and a beam with a turnbuckle and cable is in the foreground. Power lines cross the scene, and rock escarpments are in the background.
West gate
1900
Werner Carl Schwartzmiller, recaptured after leading the break from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, glares as Warden Roy Best pulls his shirt. Blood on his head, face and clothes is the result of hammer blows dealt by Mrs. Oliver, whose family he held captive for several hours. He wears a tie; chains and cable bind his arms in back. Wann and Whitelow look on, the latter wears a fur collared coat and baseball cap.
Colorado Penitentiary break 1947 Werner Schwarzmiller, convict
1948
Members of the prisoner's band at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, pose with drums, trombones, cornets, and trumpets. Their uniforms are white with rectangles across the fronts, and they wear conductor's hats. Stone Prison buildings with extruded joints and arched, barred windows are behind them.
Prison band
[between 1900 and 1910?]
Guards carry a slumping convict (R. L. Freeman, kidnapper) through interior barred gates at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Snow is on their pants, shoes and hats. Men stand in the foreground; one holds a cigar.
Colorado penitentiary escapes
1947
Cornet in hands, the leader of the State Penitentiary Band in Canon City, Colorado poses in profile. His uniform has appliqued braiding, and his cap has a shiny bill and brass band insignia. He wears wire rimmed spectacles.
Prison band leader
[between 1890 and 1900?]
Tools used in a prison break from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, include hacksaw blades, drill brace and bits, pliers, a screwdriver, putty knife, batteries, string, wire, and tape. In a Fedora, tweed jacket and tie, associate warden Fred Wyse holds a serrated knife as Captain Chester Yeo, in uniform, looks on. Also on the table are gloves, a spool of fishing line, and Colorado license plate number: "KD- 4989," 1962.
Colorado Penitentiary escapes
1962
Prison festivities
[between 1920 and 1940?]
Inmates (one Black) and officials at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, pose among metalworking machines with rollers, flywheels and belted pulleys. An axle mounted on an interior wall drives a drill press and a stamp mill, which has "US Toledo No. 57" embossed on its frame. Track mounted, sliding wooden doors with paned windows are open, and glare comes in from outside. The men are in striped shirts, coveralls, and a suit and tie.
Colorado penitentiary interior
1918
Interior wire grating, glass and metal separates convicts from their visitors at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. A woman and man in the foreground look wistfully at each other through the divider.
Prison visiting area
[between 1930 and 1950?]
Lying on a wadded, pinstriped mattress, This captured escapee from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, appears defiant in his dungarees, shirt and stained jacket. Interior prison bars are behind him; the man squatting in the foreground is identified as Red Fenwick.
Colorado prisoners break 12/31/47
1947
Interior furnishings of This cell at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, include framed portraits of women, a calender, a toilet kit in a pouch, a magazine rack, a bed with patterned cover, a porcelain sink, cannisters on a padlocked trunk, and a table with a fountain pen on it. A convict reads a magazine entitled "Literary Digest;" a lampshade and a figurine with an umbrella are by his arm.
Prisoner in cell at state prison
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Stone walls of the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, line the sidewalk. A horse drawn water wagon on the dirt street is in front of a faceted tower with a balcony. A stone gate next to it is carved with entablature, and the original administration building is set back.
Colorado State Penitentiary
[between 1900 and 1910?]
Convicts in golf hats are frisked by guards in cowboy hats at the State Penitentiary, in Canon City, Colorado. Prisoners waiting their turn stand with arms crossed.
Prisoners frisked in yard
1937
Inmates at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, wear pinstriped bib overalls and stand with arms crossed as they wait to pass through a wood electric eye gate flanked by spindle balustrades. Uniformed guards and a pipe smoking man in a suit look on; factory windows provide interior lighting.
Electric eye search
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Heilman, recaptured after the 1947 escape from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, has a rifle aimed at his blood spattered, half shaved head. His hand, wounded by gunshot, is wrapped in bloody rags; he sits holding it. The guard holding the gun wears mittens. A trash can and dresser flank the convict. Heilman was convicted of kidnapping Deputy District Attorney Fred Pferdesteller in Denver, 4/24/45.
Richard F. Heilman
1948
Three-stories of interior pipe railed metal balconies and barred cells converge into the glare of a factory window in Cellhouse 1 at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Skylights in the ceiling flank a catwalk. A porcelain tub, a column, and hoods or lampshades are centered in the foreground.
Cell house #1
[between 1950 and 1960?]

The Architecture of Conquest

Native Americans
Pueblo
Spanish Colonial
Southwest
Zuni
Catholic
View of Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona, shows: adobe and masonry dwellings overlooking a wide valley; stone corrals at the base of the steep rock walls.
Walpi, Arizona
1912
View of north house cluster, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; shows Native American (Taos) adobe dwellings, ovens, and Pueblo Peak and the Taos Mountains.
Taos
1880
View of the mission church, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, an adobe building with vigas and twin belltowers topped with crosses. Shows a Native American and a white man wearing a short sleeved shirt and hat.
Santa Ana
[between 1920 and 1930?]
View of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; shows Native American (Taos Pueblo) adobe walls, a tower with arches, and a lamp.
Indians Pueblo Taos missions exterior
[between 1915 and 1920?]
Church at Native American (Tewa) Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, southwest view. Shows adobe mission with a scalloped facade and center belfry; gravemarkers in courtyard. Native American (Santa Clara Pueblo) man stands by the church entrance. He wears a shirt, pants, and vest.
Santa Clara
1911?
View of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; shows a Native American (Taos Pueblo) man, scaffolds, adobe pueblo dwellings, and drying laundry.
2nd Pueblo - Taos
[between 1915 and 1920?]
View from the side of the adobe St. Francis of Assisi church in Ranchos de Taos (Taos County), New Mexico. Shows an adobe wall with a doorway and window, wooden vigas, and two bell towers with crosses on top.
St. Francis Mission, Ranchos de Taos, N.M.
[1920?]
View of mission ruins and graves at Taos, New Mexico; a Native American (Taos Pueblo) poses in a blanket. Adobe pueblo dwellings and Pueblo Peak are in the background.
2nd Pueblo - Taos missions
[between 1915 and 1920?]
Men pose in the entrance or narthex of the adobe Church of San Miguel in Santa Fe (Santa Fe County), New Mexico. One man, a priest, wears a cassock. The church has tapered towers with wooden railings and battlements along the roof line of the nave. Shows wooden lintels above the entrance and a wooden ladder at the side of the church.
The church of San Miguel, the oldest in Santa Fe, N.M.
View of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; shows adobe pueblo dwellings, hornos (bee-hive ovens), Pueblo Peak, and Native Americans (Taos).
2nd Pueblo - Taos
[between 1890 and 1900?]
View of the Native American pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, shows San Augustine church which features twin towers with louvered vents, adobe walls, a cross, and double doors. A ladder leans against the building; other adobe buildings nearby.
View in Isleta, old church of San Augustine, New Mexico
[1885]
View of the Mission of San Buenaventura in Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, shows an adobe building with a central parapet and bell flanked by two, smaller, twin parapets, an open balcony, and an entry gate that opens to a courtyard in front of the church.
Cochiti
[between 1890 and 1910?]
View of Mission Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. Shows an adobe mission with a belfry and two bells, a balcony with railing over the entrance, a center support post under the balcony, vigas, and walled courtyard. Multi-story pueblo dwellings are in the distance.
Zuni
1911?
View of the old mission church and convent at the Native American, Acoma Pueblo, show a few men posing on balconies of the weathered adobe structure.
Acoma
[between 1890 and 1920?]
View of the Native American (Anasazi) Tyuonyi ruins in Pajarito Park (later Bandelier National Monument), New Mexico. A circular group of foundations of Pueblo style buildings circumscribe possibly three round kiva holes. A wooden rail fence separates the excavated ruins from trees and bushes growing on the adjacent mountains. A dirt road leads to the ruins.
"The Delight Makers" home. Tyuonyi, the most interesting ruin in Pajarito Park
[between 1900 and 1916]
A row of small buildings of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico is shown from the back. Wooden ladders lead to the upper levels of the structures. The windows and doors are framed with wood. The surface of the ground is composed of large slabs of rock. Small mounds, probably ovens, stand a few feet behind the buildings. Additional mesas, including the "Enchanted Mesa," are in the distance.
Indians, Pueblo, Laguna
[between 1915 and 1926?]
Interior view of a Native American Hopi Pueblo kiva, Third Mesa, Arizona, shows an altar set for a sacred ceremony with fetishes, corn cobs, animal skulls, baskets, bells, feathers and pottery.
Altar - Mesa No. 3
[between 1880 and 1910?]
Indians, Pueblo, Laguna, missions
[between 1915 and 1926?]
View of Long House Ruin, Native American (Anasazi) talus cliff dwelling, at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. Ladders lean against the tuff dwellings which have holes for vigas.
Bandelier National Monument
[between 1880 and 1900]
View of Native American (Anasazi) cliff dwelling ruins at Balcony House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Shows multi-story buildings with windows and stone sills beneath a rock wall. A man, probably a guide, stands near a viga.
Balcony House, looking east
[1900?]
The front of the Church of San Jose at the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico has a large bell tower with two bells and a large cross. A large window is centered over the large, wooden door; a smaller entrance is in the adjacent one-story section of the church. The adobe surface is cracked in several areas, particularly above the main door and window. The church is dated at approximately 1699.
Indians, Pueblo, Laguna, missions
[between 1915 and 1926?]
View of the entrance to a Native American (Anasazi) underground kiva in Pajarito Park (later Bandelier National Monument), New Mexico. A long wooden ladder protrudes from a square entrance to the ruins of a cylindrical stone kiva set inside a Bandelier tuff cave. The kiva possibly stands in the side of a cliff.
Cave rooms in cliff Pajarito Park
[between 1908 and 1916]
View of the Native American Laguna Pueblo Indian mission Church of San Jose, New Mexico, shows an adobe building with walled burial ground, stepped parapet, two bells and a cross.
Laguna
[between 1880 and 1900]
Native American (Pueblo, Zuni) children and women and white men and women stand on and near adobe and stone cluster homes at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. The buildings have chimney pots, vigas, and wooden ladders.
Zuni Pueblo
[between 1880 and 1900]
View of a mission church in the Native American pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, shows twin bell towers with louvered vents and crosses on top, adobe wall construction, and a pile of adobe bricks.
Isleta
[between 1900 and 1930?]
View looking east over Acoma Pueblo, Acoma Mesa, New Mexico, shows Pueblo Native Americans, multi-story adobe house blocks with ladders, vigas, chimneys, pottery, chickens, firewood and surrounding buttes and mesas.
View in Pueblo Acoma, N.M.
[between 1880 and 1900]
Church at Native American (Tewa) Nambe Pueblo, New Mexico; an adobe mission with double wood doors, three point facade and center belfry, balcony, attached structure and a picket fenced courtyard.
Nambe
1911?
A Native American (Hopi) woman stands near a group of adobe cluster homes at Oraibi Pueblo, Arizona. The homes have chimney pots and wooden vigas.
View in the aristocratic quarter of Oraibi Moqui Village, Arizona
[between 1884 and 1890]
View of San Esteban del Rey de Acoma, a mission church, and the convento (convent) at Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. The buildings are constructed of adobe and stone. The church has two bell towers; the two-story convent is attached to the mission building and has a balcony with a wooden railing and stone buttresses. Girls stand near the buildings.
Old church at pueblo of Acoma, N.M.
View of Walpi, Arizona, a Native American (Hopi) stone and adobe pueblo settlement; shows people, a burro, and the sandstone cliffs of the mesa.
Walpi
[between 1880 and 1890?]
View of an adobe Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe mission church at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. Native American (Zuni) men pose in the entrance and on a second floor balcony. The church has two bells in a central belfry, worn battlements on towers, and vigas near the roof line of the nave. A cross and altar are in the walled courtyard. A man, probably a member of the survey crew, leans against an adobe wall.
Old Mission Church, Zuni Pueblo, N.M. view from the plaza
View of an adobe mission building in the Native American pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico, shows twin bell towers, a second floor balcony, and double doors flanked by representations of horses.
San Felipe
[between 1880 and 1900?]

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Colorado Avalanche defenseman Bob Boughner (#6) flashes a smile at a temmate before a voluntary light practice at the Family Sports Center Ice Arena in Centennial on Tuesday April 25, 2006. Many on the team have to be smiling after a pair of wins again...
MJM129 Two unidentified woman smile on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 during the Inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C., where Mr. Obama became the 44th president of the United States and the first African-American to hold the office. (MATT...
Rresident Paul Mack (Cq) returns home after a bike ride to his solar condo complex by architect Michael Tavel (cq), in the Prospect community in Longmont, Co. on Sept. 19, 2006. Tavel won the architects' choice award. Above the windows are solar pane...
9/30/06 - P. 1E;
Mountain bikers with bikes in tow camp near the Bookcliffs area as the sun sets after riding at the 11th Annual Fruita Fat Tire Festival on Friday April 28, 2006. The Festival went back to its roots this year featuring loosely organized rides many host...
5/6/06 - P. 20B;
Visitors enjoy the sunset and the reflection of the aspens in Maroon Lake Monday afternoon September 26, 2005, at the Maroon Bells in Aspen. The Maroon Bells are one of the most photographed places in Colorado during the show of color by the aspen tre...
(Aurora, Colo. July 6, 2004) A wheel of anti-gang leader Rev. Leon Kelly's 1978 Cadillac Eldorado. He uses two lowriders to help shift kids' interest away from the streets and into more productive options. He has a 1978 Cadillac Eldorado and a 1981 ...
7/9/04 - P. 16D;
ellen needs to shoot elitch gardens at sunset. she worked on it last week, and needs to try again from another angle.
8/20/04 - P. 16D;
Lights glow in a time lapse photo of the Ferris Wheel as fairgoers wait beneath it for a turn on the first day of the Colorado State Fair in Publo, Colo., on Friday, August 24, 2007. The Midway is where the the rides and games are at and is popular, es...
05/17/2008 - P. 40ESCAPES;9/1/07 - P. 5SPOTLIGHT;
(YUMA., Colo., Dec. 12, 2005) Kenny Rogers leans against his truck, near a piece of property where the family rents out farm land. The Rogers family in Yuma, Colorado has maintained the Wagon Wheel Ranch since 1950. They have participated in the Nation...
(Denver, Colo., 1/19/05- David Motes (right) talks with his partner Zane David Bruce their competition in the team roping event at the Wednesday Matinee Rodeo, January 19, 2005 at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo. At 51, Motes is the oldest c...
1/21/05 - P. 20A;
DM0211 Squeak Schmidt of Johnstown, Neb. competes in the saddle bronc during the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo at the Denver Coliseum in Denver, Colo. Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008.(DARIN MCGREGOR/ ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) **all names from roster
01/18/2008 - P. 24NEWS;01/18/2008 - P. 24NEWS;
25 year-old Ken Lewis (cq) from La Junta, CO prepares his horse, Anna, an 11-year-old American Quarter horse beforethe start of the National Western Rodeo Finals in the Denver Coliseum on Sunday, January 27, 2008. Lewis participated on the Steer Wrestl...
DM3367 Whoa! Kelly Masters of Erie, Colo. puts the brakes on as he takes down a steer during the steer wrestling the steer wrestling event, also known as bulldogging, during the Earl Anderson Memorial Rodeo in Grover,Colo. June 15, 2008. (DARIN MCGREG...
Luke Gardner (cq), senior from Highland School - Ault Colorado, talks to friend Becky White (cq), senior at Moffat High school- Moffat Colorado, left to right, Thursday afternoon June 23, 2005 at Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Golden while White clean...
6/24/05 - P. 5A;
A bull waits in the pens to be chosen or not chosen for the bull riding event Sunday July 24th during the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo. Established in 1897, Cheyenne Frontier Days is the World's Largest Rodeo & Western Celebration. (JUDY WALGREN/THE R...
7/30/05 - P. 1D;
Josh Lowell filming Chris Sharma rock climbing / deep water soloing on The Arch, his project in Cala Santanyi, Mallorca, Spain. As of July 18, 2006 Sharma had not completed the free climbing route.
9/4/07 - P. 20NEWS;
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1/1/05 - P. 18B;
Ingrid Backstrom explores the pillars of ice and deep blue canyons of snow in the area around Blue River, British Columbia, Canada. From the film Higher Ground, by Warren Miller. 2005. Photo by Warren Miller Entertainment.
A field of alfalpha is watered in Weld County Wednesday May 17, 2006. The water being used to raise this crop is from his late season water reserve. "We are all embedded in this land. This is more than our livelihood, it's our life, our history," says...
(ASPEN Colo., August 17,2004) Water from the Salvation ditch is used on this ranch to water the hay fields. The ditch takes water from the Roaring Fork River before the river reaches town. In 2002 not much water got past this ditch, because of the sen...
10/6/04 - P. 6S;
The Glory Hole Spillway in Dillon Reservoir is taking in water Monday afternoon June 20, 2005. This is the first time since 2001 that there has been enough water in the reservoir for water to go over the spillway. The water then will go into the Blue...
Water flows out of the mid point valve of Gross Dam from Gross Reservoir to South Boulder Creek Thursday March 15, 2007. Gross Reservoir is part of the Denver Water system, provoiding drinking water to Denver. The weather and rate of thaw will play a b...
Darren Narens (CQ), gets some air as he competes in the advance division preliminaries Flip Out, Freeride, and Tricks Runs during day two of the Inaugural National Championships of the United States Hydrofoil Association at Soda Lake in Lakewood, Colo....
Uravan, CO.. A liquid evaporation and retention pond, one of several in Uravan, Colorado, used in the clean-up efforts of Uranium mining contaminated land in what was once a town of about 700. The liquid in the ponds is water collected since 1987 f...
[FEDERAL HEIGHTS, CO. - July 28, 2004) Dawn Berth, 18, of Thornton, , competed with 40 other hopefuls and placed 2nd in the girls competition in Water World's first "Best Wave Babe and Wave Bum" surf contest Wednesday, July 28, 2004. Catelyn Rob...
05/23/2008 - P. 8SPOTLIGHT;
Members of the Niwot 16A girls softball team react to jumping into the cold water Sunday morning January 1, 2006, at the Boulder Reservoir. They are from left to right Katie Ratliff, Isabelle Mastronardi, Kelsey Kreager, Abby Ratliff and Ashley Primm...
1/2/06 - P. 5A;
A ranger-led tour makes their way through the Cliff Palace site, which is tucked under an alcove on the mesa, at Mesa Verde National Park one afternoon. The cliff dwellings at Cliff Palace were discovered in 1888 by cowboys Richard Wetherill and Charli...
05/15/2003 Western Colorado-I was photographing an enterprise story on a migrant sheepherder in Western Colorado when he left me to hunt coyotes that threaten his herd. While waiting for him to return, I spotted this scene from a distance, at the bott...
7/10/04 - P. 18B;
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12/24/04 - P. 20D;
A cyclist traveling the White Rim Trail checks out The Black Crack. At many places along the trail a small crack opens up,becoming, eventually, a vast canyon. During its hundred mile length many canyons appear like this beside the trail. The White Rim ...
A cyclist stands looking at the Green River near Ft. Bottom on the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands National Park. The trail which runs through rough and rugged country for over one hundred miles is in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands. The p...
A group of women workers clean corn at Project Mercy in Yetebon, Ethiopia on, Saturday, October 1, 2005. Corn along with false banana is one of the staple crops of Ethiopian farmers. In rural areas, much of the work, whether it is making butter or brea...
11/2/05 - P. 7S;
A pothole provides an oasis of life and green color in a vast stretch of white sandstone at a place called The White Crack, on a portion of the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah. The trail which runs through rough and ru...
[(Tucson, AZ, Shot on: 2/23/05)] Colorado Rockies AAA starting pticher Jason Young pitches before an Arizona sky during Spring Training at the Hi Corbett Field Sports Complex in Tucson, AZ, Wednesday Feb. 23, 2005. (BARRY GUTIERREZ /ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS)
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1/28/05 - P. 5D; 1/14/05 - P. 33A;
(Denver, Colorado, 11/15/2005) Weekend Spotlight: Firemancer is a fire-dancing troupe slated to perform in this year's Parade of Lights. The two-person group, comprised of Doug Bates (cq) and Melinda Rivers (cq), demonstrated their skills at Club Sky...
(Denver, Colorado, 11/15/2005) Weekend Spotlight: Firemancer is a fire-dancing troupe slated to perform in this year's Parade of Lights. The two-person group, comprised of Doug Bates (cq) and Melinda Rivers (cq), demonstrated their skills at Club Sky...
12/2/05 - P. 6D;
(Denver, Colorado, 11/15/2005) Weekend Spotlight: Firemancer is a fire-dancing troupe slated to perform in this year's Parade of Lights. The two-person group, comprised of Doug Bates (cq) and Melinda Rivers (cq), demonstrated their skills at Club Sky...
(BG0164) Clouds decorate the sky as a new day begins at the Worship Center of the New Life Church where church founder Ted Haggard is on administrative leave in Colorado Springs, Colo., Friday, Nov. 3, 2006. Mike Jones, CQ, says that he has had a three...
(BG902) The moon peers through the blue sky over Invesco Field at Mile High as the Denver Broncos lose to the Indianapolis Colts 34-31 in the fourth quarter at on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006. Broncos lose 34-31. (BARRY GUTIERREZ/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) *** NAME...
(Easement 2) After sunset, the grasslands of Capps Homestead is silhouetted agains a blue sky, Tuesday evening, January 29, 2008, Huerfano County, Colorado. This is part of the conservation easement formed by ranchers in this area. (KEN PAPALEO/ROCKY ...
(Easement 2) Sunrise turns the sky and the Spanish Peaks pink Wednesday morning, January 30, 2008, Huerfano County, Colorado. The land in front of the peaks is part of the conservation easement formed by ranchers in this area. (KEN PAPALEO/ROCKY MOUNT...
(GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLO., May 12.2004 ) VIEWFINDER, While up at Hanging lake I noticed these trout swimming around in the clear water. I had to find an angle where I wouldn't get any reflection from the sky and then used my 70 - 200 zoom and my Nikon ...
(LINDON Colo., January 13, 2004) VIEWFINDER- While out East in farm country I came across this field that belongs to the Scott family. The small amount of new snow was enough fill the some of the plowed field but leaving dirt showing also. The patter...
1/22/05 - P. 22B;
(VIEWFINDER - RAINBOW July 8, 2004) While on a trip in eagle county, near Vail, a quick moving thunder storm over came me. I waited it out and I knew that when it started to clear, a rainbow would appear. I put my 70 - 200 Nikon zoom on my Nikon D2H...
7/24/04 - P. 22B;
(MOUNT EVANS Colo., September 1,2004) A Mountain Goat stands on a rock over looking the "Castle in the Sky" at the top of Mount Evans Rd. September1, 2004. The castle was once called the Crest House, that was built in 1941 and at that time was the hig...
9/2/04 - P. 34A;
({seqn)} Allison Larson looks in her kitchen cabinet while meeting with insurance agents at her home on Sunday, May 25, 2008. The Larsons' house was destroyed in the tournado that hit Windsor, Colo., last week. (PRESTON GANNAWAY/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) ...
05/26/2008 - P. 5NEWS;
04/20/2004 Littleton, Colo.-A child waves to the sky as doves, representing those killed in the Columbine shootings, fly away near the end of a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the Columbine shootings Tuesday, April 20, at Clement Park in Lit...
this is for page 22 A field of daises grows along highway 550 north of Silverton Colorado last week. This is a good wild flower viewing season due to the heavy mountain snow melt run off. I underexposed the over all shot by one stop, laid m...
5/13/06 - P. 8S;
(DENVER Colo., February 15, 2005) Remster (cq) Bingham , of Boulder, walks across the sky bridge at DIA February 15, 2005. The bridge connects the Jeppesen Terminal with Concourse A. The airport is turning 10 years old February 28, 2005. (Photo by KEN ...
(Denver, Colorado, 11/15/2005) Weekend Spotlight: Firemancer is a fire-dancing troupe slated to perform in this year's Parade of Lights. The two-person group, comprised of Doug Bates (cq) and Melinda Rivers (cq), demonstrated their skills at Club Sky...

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ A Flood of Biblical Proportions

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View of lumber and debris near the intersection of B Street and Victoria Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows water in the entrance to the stone Union Depot building and submerged telephone poles and trees.
Great flood, Pueblo, Colo., June 3rd '21, Union Station
1921 June 3
Debris from the Arkansas River flood at 2nd (Second) Street and Grand Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows mud, timber, portions of ceiling molding, and a door near the wrecked, frame "Mammoth Corral" building. The three story brick "Colorado Bedding Co." building shows paint chipped off at the high water mark above first story windows.
Debris at 2nd and Grand Ave., showing high water line
1921 June
Interior view of White and Davis clothing store at 301 N. Main Street after the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows wrecked furniture, crates, mud and debris in the aisle. Signs for "Boys Dept." and "Collars" are posted on pipe columns with Corinthian capitals. The store has a pressed metal ceiling and overhead lamps with glass globes.
Interior of White & Davis store, cor. 3rd and Main
1921 June
Aerial view of a flooded Arkansas River, damaged buildings and rail yards in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows the Pueblo Smelter, the Nuckolls Packing Company building, standing water identified as "Death Lake", a flooded Missouri Pacific Railway Company rail yard, Denver and Rio Grande Western and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad bridges, and City Hall with a domed cupola.
Airplane view of flooded area from 3rd St.
1921 June
People walk on 2nd (Second) Street in front of damaged commercial buildings and piles of debris from the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Men pose on wreckage from a collapsed roof beside a damaged brick building with a decorative parapet. Shows cars, water and mud in the street.
Looking west along 2nd St. from point near Main Street
1921 June
Aerial view of the flooded Arkansas River in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows freight cars at the washed out Missouri Pacific Railway Company yard, railroad bridges over the river and the Nuckolls Packing Company building beside standing water.
Airplane view, Arkansas River near Nuckolls Packing Plant, D.& R.G. and A.T.& S.F. bridges in foreground
1921 June
View of the flooded Arkansas River in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. People stand and look at the destruction from railroad tracks in Goat Hill (Tenderfoot Hill) in northeast Pueblo. Shows a railroad bridge, buildings submerged in water, probably the Nuckolls Packing Company building, and smokestacks in the distance.
Flood scene taken from Tenderfoot Hill near First Street, Pueblo
1921 June 6
View of the 8th (Eighth) Street Depot beside Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows mud covered tracks and debris from flooded Fountain Creek washed up beside the covered passenger platform. The frame depot building has a hipped roof, half-timbered dormer windows and a sign that reads: "Eighth Street Pueblo."
8th St. Depot, looking north
1921 June
The intersection of B Street and Victoria Avenue is under flood water from the Arkansas River in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows water in the entrance to the stone Union Depot building, submerged telephone poles and a "St. Louis Refrigerator Car" washed against a drug store building.
Great flood, Pueblo, Colo., June 3rd '21, Union Station
1921 June 3
View of metal and wood debris, mud and silt from flooded Fountain Creek washed over Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks near the 8th (Eighth) Street depot in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado.
Flood scene, D.& R.G. Eight St. Depot, Pueblo
1921 June 6
View of flood water and submerged commercial buildings at the intersection of Main Street and Union Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows debris on a fallen telephone wire, and signs on businesses that read: "Stark Clothing Co.," "The Wonder Men's Store," "United Shoe Stores Co.," "Central Studio," and "Central Market."
Corner Main St. and Union Ave., 4:30 am June 4
1921 June 4
A man in overalls and a fedora stands beside a debris covered Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad bridge and a mud covered Denver and Rio Grande Western bridge in probably Pueblo County, Colorado. Tree branches and mud are washed up against the bridge and over the sets of railroad tracks after a flood. Shows an eroded river bed of probably the Arkansas River.
A.T. & S.F. bridge opposite D. & R.G. bridge 126-B
1921 June
People pose on a freight car and on a pile of debris beside flood water from the Arkansas River on 1st (First) Street in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows a pile of lumber, a wagon wheel, and flood water on First Street. Brick buildings read: "Haver's Land Office," "T.G. McCarthy and Co. Undertakers," and "Auto Parts & Rubber House, United States Tires, Sales & Service Depot."
Flood scene, First Street, looking west, Pueblo
1921 June 6
Men work to clear debris from a flood under washed out Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad bridge number "126-B" in probably Pueblo County, Colorado. Shows tree branches and mud in an eroded creek bed, and unsupported tracks over the creek.
D. & R.G. bridge 126-B, looking northeast
1921 June
View of flooded buildings, debris and flood water from the Arkansas River in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows submerged commercial buildings, houses and telephone poles in Goat Hill (Tenderfoot Hill) in northeast Pueblo.
Looking west from Tenderfoot Hill, Pueblo
1921 June 6
View of Arkansas River flood water at the intersection of Main Street and Union Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Flood water is half way up the first story of stone commercial buildings with arched doorways and windows, and flat roofs. Flood debris is on power lines in the street.
Looking east at Main St. and Union Avenue
1921 June
View of buildings and shacks moved and destroyed by the flood waters of the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado. Debris, a boxcar, lumber, and utility poles are scattered among the buildings. Smoke stacks and steeples are in the distance.
Flood damage
1921 June 12 - 17
Men stand outside the Union Depot in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. One man wears a badge. Shows water, mud and debris on the ground, and a flood damaged passenger car wrecked beside the stone depot. Probably a cleaning crew works on mud covered tracks nearby.
West end of passenger depot
1921 June
View of a small house that was carried by the flood waters of the Arkansas River and came to rest against the side of a brick garage in Pueblo, Colorado. The garage has damaged walls. Two men pose beside the garage. Ruts in the deep mud are near the buildings.
Small house which floated down against garage building four lives were lost in this house.
[1921 June]
Piles of debris from the Arkansas River flood are in the streets around the stone Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad depot in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Lumber, metal, mud and silt cover the streets near brick commercial buildings.
Debris opposite stone A.T. & S.F. stone depot, looking S.E.
1921 June
The trunk of a cottonwood tree and debris are pushed through the display window of the Pierce Seed Company at 216 W 4th (Fourth) Street after an Arkansas River flood in Pueblo, Colorado. Part of the wall and the window frame have collapsed.
Front of Pierce Seed Company showing large cottonwood log left in window
[1921 June]
View of standing water piles of lumber and debris on Main Street and Hobson Street after the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows the collapsed wall of the Ford Exchange building.
Ford Exchange, Main and Hobson Sts., showing high water line
1921 June
Cast iron cooking stoves are piled up against the side of the brick Holmes Hardware Store at 400 S. Union Avenue near railroad tracks after the Arkansas River flood, in Pueblo, Colorado. Wreckage and debris are piled up near a viaduct. Wooden framing braced up with boards is beside the track. Railroad boxcars are in the distance.
Carload of stoves at Holmes' Hardware Store
[1921 June]
View of overturned freight cars and wreckage from the Arkansas River flood on Union Avenue in front of the stone Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad depot in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows standing water around trees and piles of debris.
Santa Fe depot
1921 June
Flood debris in Pueblo, Colorado, includes carved wood molding, stamped ceiling metal, door, crates, wheels, lumber, and mud. A frame building has roof damage and a sign: "Mammoth Corral." A shed lays sideways in front of a four-story brick warehouse with arched windows and signs: "The Colorado Bedding Co. Established 1894." White residue covers the first floor, showing the peak of the high water.
Debris at 2nd and Grand Ave. - showing high water line
1921
Wrecked buildings and overturned Denver and Rio Grande Western freight cars are in the Walker rail yard after the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows smokestacks and the Nuckolls Packing Company buildings in the distance.
Flood scene, R.R. yards, Nuckolls Packing Plant in the distance, Pueblo
1921 June 6
Water, mud and debris fill Union Avenue in Pueblo, Colorado. Brick storefronts show signs: "Klein & Leiser," "Colonial Jewelry," "Exchange Rooming House," "Weisel Seed," "Star House," and "Economy Clothing." Cast iron street lamps with milk glass globes line the thoroughfare. The Board of Trade Building, City Hall, and the turret of the Riverside Block show above other structures. The steel arch of the Arkansas River bridge is past wrecked automobiles and piled lumber.
Looking so. along Union Ave. Pueblo white building with tower is new City Hall on bank of river
1921
View of wrecked Denver and Rio Grande Western freight cars and frame buildings after the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Piles of lumber and debris, mud and silt are in the Walker rail yard. A smokestack is beside a building that reads: "This Property for Sale or Rent, apply to H.C. Borndruck, Phone 120."
Wreckage, Walker Yard, looking N.E. from C St. viaduct
1921 June
View of a shingle-sided house covered with a tree trunk, mud, and debris after a flood on the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado. Multi-story brick buildings are in the distance.
House covered with debris at lower end of Peppersauce across the river from the power house
[1921]
View of a two-story brick building with a flat roof and cloth awnings identified as the "Old White Triangle Block" on Union Avenue and Main Street in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Flood water from the Arkansas River surrounds commercial businesses. Shows submerged doorways, windows, street lights, telephone poles, and piles of debris.
Old White Triangle Block, Union Ave. and Main St. 4:30 am June fourth
1921 June 4
Men work to clear rubble piled along the flooded Arkansas River in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Freight cars, a locomotive, hay bales, tracks and lumber are scattered near Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe and Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad bridges.
River bridges at Pueblo from south end
1921 June
View of a dynamite explosion to dislodge a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad bridge from flood debris in the Arkansas River in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows mud and sand in the air, part of a D. & R.G. bridge submerged in the river and an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad bridge nearby.
Using dynamite to release wrecked D. & R.G. bridge from mud, A.T. & S.F. bridge in background
1921 June
Men in overalls or work clothes and hats stand on washed out railroad tracks beside piles of rubble from the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe and Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad bridges are in the distance. Shows wrecked and overturned locomotives and railroad cars.
River bridges at Pueblo from south end
1921 June

Beer and The Old West

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View of a liquor store at 5325 East Colfax Avenue in the South Park Hill Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. A brick and tile column holds a metal sign that reads: "Continental Cut Rate Liquors, Ice Cold Beer." Other businesses include: "Colortyme TV VCR Repair," "Dietrich's," and "Sunrise Donuts."
5325 East Colfax Avenue, Denver
1992 September
Portrait of Tivoli-Union Brewery employees in Denver, Colorado, posing with beer mugs, kegs, and a pitcher.
Tivoli - Union
[between 1890 and 1900?]
Interior view of the abandoned Tivoli-Union Brewery in Denver, Colorado; shows beer vats, stair railings, and men.
Copper vats and steel work will be refinished and integrated into restaurant space
[between 1980 and 1984?]
Len Vogel stands in his white overalls in front of his Coors delivery truck at the Adolph Coors Brewery, Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado. The truck has an open frame bed loaded with wooden barrels and another trailer attached with wooden crates. A canvas covering for the load is on top the truck cab.
Len Vogel malted milk & freight truck
1926
Theo Koch drives an Adolph Coors Golden Brewery delivery truck, in Golden, Jefferson County. The wood panel Frayer - Miller truck has the steering wheel on the right side, narrow tires and lantern headlights.
Theo. Koch
1910
View of the Tivoli Brewery wagon and Clydesdale horses in Denver, Colorado; people ride the conveyance and watch from sidelines by a loudspeaker. Harness includes silver studs.
Tivoli - Union beer wagon
[between 1940 and 1950?]
View of a horse drawn wagon in Denver, Colorado; men pose; sign reads: "Tivoli-Union Brewery."
Tivoli Brewery beer wagon
[between 1940 and 1949?]
Men ride on a horse-drawn float, part of the Festival of Mountain and Plain, in a parade in Denver, Colorado. The float depicts a king with a sword and a keg of beer. Men on the float wear costumes that include hats decorated with feathers, capes, and swords. The horses wear decorative cloth shrouds with lettering that reads: "Neef Bros Brewing Co." Spectators sit in grandstands nearby.
Festival of Mountain and Plain parade
[1896]
View of a parade float, built for the festival of Mountain and Plain, in Denver, Colorado. The float depicts a waterwheel and a large group of icicles.
Festival of Mountain and Plain parade float
[1896]
Men and boys pose with cigars, pipes, shovels, a broom, and beer bottles. Crates and labels read: "Tivoli Union Brewing Co. 1342 10th St Denver, Colo."
Tivoli Brewery crew
1902
Young men, probably Devlin's Zouaves with the Sells Floto Circus and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, pose seated on the ground in Great Falls (Cascade County), Montana. The young men are near a billboard that reads: "Drink American Beer." The boys wear caps, shirts and pants. A circus trailer is seen in the background.
Great Falls, Montana
[between 1910 and 1917?]
View of businesses at 2433 16th (Sixteenth) Street between Platte and Central (later west Eleventh Avenue) in Denver, Colorado; shows men and girls posing, an electric light, and signs: "Beer Depot Union Brewing Co.," "Depot Rooming House Denver Head Quarters Albert Fette Prop.," "Depot Restaurant."
Union Brewing Co.
[between 1880 and 1890?]
Copy of an 1890 beer ad shows two bottles with type and ornate borders. Lettering reads: Coors' Golden Brewery, Adolph Coors, Brewer and Bottler of Lager Beer, Golden, Colo.; beer labels read: "Coors Pure Export Beer, Brewed & Bottled by A. Coors, Golden Colo." and "Pure Pilsener Lager Beer, Brewed & Bottled by A. Coors, Golden Colo."
Coors beer ad
[between 1980 and 1990]
Boggio's Parisienne Rotisserie
[1941]
A woman poses in front of Dan's Corner Tavern, 5302 Brighton Boulevard in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The bar, a former residence, has a cross-gabled roof, brick facing and several additions. Signs read, "AMAZINGLY LOW!!, Bottle Beer 60 cents, BEER 20 cents, SHOTS 25 cents, Bourbon Whiskey, Pete Staffieri," "EGGS, SPUDS," "NOTARY PETE" and "Notary Public, Bottle Beer." A phone booth is near the building and cars are parked nearby.
Dan's Corner Tavern
1980
A saloonkeeper wearing an apron stands outside of a saloon in La Junta, Colorado in Otero County. The nineteenth century, commercial storefront has bracketed cornices, two bays, storefront windows, a transom, and double entry doors. Bottles of beer are visible in the window. Signs: "Powell & Wonderly," "Zang's Beer," "Saloon."
The Original Blue Front
[between 1920 and 1950]
View of the Tivoli Union Brewery beer wagon and team of horses, in Denver, Colorado; storefront sign reads: "Tivoli Beer T.W. Potter Barber Billiards."
Tivoli beer wagon, Denver
1948
A Ford Coors delivery truck parks on a Colorado street with cases of beer showing through side door. Lettering on truck reads: "Adolph Coors Co. Denver" and "Coors Brewer of Fine Beer."
Coors delivery truck
1942
A wagon drawn by a team of horses is parked next to a brewery in the town of Creede, Colorado, in Mineral County. The driver sits in the cart and a man stands next to the wagon. The building is a two-story, wood- frame structure with gables, shingles, chimneys, rectangular windows, and a covered porch with spindles. Snow covers the ground and the hills in the background. A "Beer Depot of P.H. Zang Brewing Co. Jno. Knodel, Agt." shows.
Beer depot thru which the Zang Brewing Co. of Denver distributed their beer
[1900?]
View of a beer cap (ca.1901-1915) from the Tivoli-Union Brewery in Denver, Colorado. Shows a gold colored bottle cap with a central image of the sun and rays that radiate outward on a field of gray clouds. The words: "Trade Mark" and "Tivoli" are superimposed over the sun. The cap has a gold rim with Art-Nouveau designs and the words: "The Tivoli-Union Brewing Co., Denver, Colo."
Bottle cap from Tivoli beer, bottled by the Tivoli-Union Brewery
1981
Studio portrait of Charlie Nelson, Thomas C. Browne, Douglas Patilla, and Charles Smith in Denver, Colorado. The men hold parasols and pour beer from bottles. They wear top hats and overcoats.
Plumbers Local #3 Labor Day
1903 September

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ Joe "Awful" Coffee

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celebrities
Denver history
In Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, the Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College men's swim team poses in their trunks by an interior swimming pool. They are identified as: (L to R) (back) - Dick Conner - Russ Lawrence - Bill Evans (Capt.) - Carl Baily - Dick Benninghoven - Don Rupp - Jim Hurry - GW Tompkins (Tommy) coach (L to R) (front) - Gene Culver - Reyn Robertson - Jerry Darden - John Ehrenreich - Leon Schull - and John Emry."
Colorado A. M. Swimming Team Rocky Mountain Champions of 1951
February 23, 1951
Firemen pose with dinnerware at Joe (Awful) Coffee's Ringside Lounge in Denver, Colorado. The room has floral wallpaper.
Denver Firemans 35 Year Club Annual Dinner at Joe (Awful) Coffee Ringside Lounge
[between 1940 and 1960?]
Portrait of a football team in Trinidad, Colorado. Teenage boys and young men in white, numbered jerseys are posed, the ones sitting in the front have their helmets on the grass in front of their cleated shoes. Two men in ballcaps and jackets with large "T" patches flank the standing row. Power poles and a three-story, flat roofed cream colored brick building is in the background.
Holy Trinity tigers
1954
Jack Dempsey poses with Joe "Awful" Coffee probably in Colorado. Both men wear suits.
Jack Dempsey with his old friend Joe "Awful" Coffee
[between 1930 and 1940?]
Jack Dempsey poses with Joe "Awful" Coffee probably in Colorado. Both men wear suits.
Jack Dempsey with his old friend Joe "Awful" Coffee
[between 1940 and 1950?]
Men stand and pose in a boxing ring. Joe Rutofsky "Awful" Coffee smiles and poses between two men. Everett O. Marshall wears lace-up boxing shoes and a robe with satin lapels, cuffs, and a belt. William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey wears a military uniform with a double breasted jacket and three stripes on the sleeves.
Jack Dempsey, Joe "Awful" Coffee, Everett Marshall
[between 1930 and 1940?]
Interior view of the Ringside Lounge at 1120 17th Street in Denver, Colorado; shows boys, girls, a man and a woman at a table set with food and dinnerware. Joe "Awful" Coffee offers a piece of cake; Jane Sterling holds a child, and framed photographs cover the wall.
Jane Sterling Denver Posts' and Joe "Awful" Coffee Birthday Club party for orphan children
[between 1950 and 1960?]
Jimmy James and Joe "Awful" Rutofsky Coffee
[between 1940 and 1950?]
Interior view of the Ringside Lounge in Denver, Colorado; shows boy boxers, Joe "Awful" Coffee shaking hands with Father Jim Moynihan, and a table set with food. Framed pictures of boxers and newspaper clippings cover the wall.
Joe "Awful" Coffee host to Father Jim Moynihan and his boxing champions
1958
Interior view at the Ringside Lounge in Denver, Colorado; shows Joe "Awful" Coffee (with glasses), members of the Denver Bears baseball team, and women. Photographs of boxers, a comic strip, and a juke box selector are on the wall.
Joe "Awful" Coffee playing host to Denver Bears
1954
Group portrait of women in Denver, Colorado. They are (L to R) Helen Pinney, Dora Esarey, Margaret Morgan, Jo Jericho, and Dottie Smith (Captain).
Joe "Awful" Coffee's championship women's bowling team
1954?
A Hessie and Tessie cartoon from the Joe "Awful" Coffee Collection.
[Joe sells the Post, no. 2] [art original].
1950
A Hessie and Tessie cartoon from the Joe "Awful" coffee Collection.
[Speciality of the house] [art original].
1953
Montage shows Centennial Race Track in Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado. The upper photo shows the winning horse (Pet Me), the second place horse (Green Fighter), the third place horse (Blanter) and jockeys as they race at the "Great Plains Stakes." The Sponsor (Joe "Awful" Coffee) hands a trophy to the jockey (Ben Baker) and owner (C.B. McNeill) of "Pet Me" in the lower photo. A crowd of people is in the stands in the distance.
Centennial Race Track the Great Plains Stakes
1956 July 7
Montage of horse racing at Centennial Race track in Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado. The upper photo shows the winning horse (Say Boba), the second place horse (Naya's Day), the third place horse (Shifty Jean) and jockeys as they race toward the finish line. The lower photo shows the winning horse, "Say Boba", with jockey Richard Wright, owners Ponder Verdin and R.C. Jones, and trainer Lyman Rollins. Crowds of people are in the stands.
Centennial Race Track The Joe's Awful Coffee Lounge
1956 July 6

Deco Trefoil ~ Denver Equipment Company Newsletter

mining
Colorado
mine equipment
precious metals extraction
Exhibits
Baobab Tree, Africa
January - February, 1947
Mount Llampu from La Paz, Bolivia.
November, 1944
Mountain Snow Melt
January, 1946
Urad Mill, five miles above Empire, Colorado, just south of Berthoud Pass.
February, 1945
Kramer Mine, Brown's Canyon, Salida, Colorado
May, 1943
U. S. Navy Dive Bomber Group in the South Pacific area.
May, 1944
The Harnessing of Electricity
February, 1946
Silver Lake, at 12,000 feet with Spencer Peak to the left.
March, 1946
Opuntia Cactus and blooms
April, 1946
United Nations poster by the Koppers Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July, 1943
Lily of the Desert ~ State flower of New Mexico
August, 1946
Copper froth in a Sub-A Flotation Cell st Sherritt Gordon Mines in Canada
January, 1944
A White Swan
March, 1945
Aurora Borealis (artistic representation)
November - December, 1949
U. S. Army paratroopers over Denver's Municipal Airport in an Independence Day demonstration.
November, 1943
Kayak race at Hudson's Bay Company at Port Burwell at the northernmost tip of Labrador
September, 1943
Lion, King of the Beasts, with an article about the Lowveld, and African animal reserve
May - June, 1948
Peace Tower at the Canadian Parliament building in Ottowa, Ontario, Canada.
December, 1942
Paricutin Volcano, Michoacán, Mexico
August, 1943
American Navajo Indian
June, 1944
Flotation Bubble and Load
July - August, 1947
Victoria Falls, Southern Rhodesia, Africa (Zambia - Zimbabwe)
March - April, 1948
Million Dollar Highway on Abrams Mountain
September, 1944
Fossils as the source of coal
September - October, 1948
Mount Shavano, near Salida, Colorado
November - December, 1947
Percy Rideout, co-director of the Aspen Ski School performs a jump in Aspen, Colorado
January - February, 1948
Sand Dunes National Monument
January, 1943
National Pantheon in Caracas, Venezuela
April, 1945
The Arizona white-tailed buck deer in Arizona
July, 1944
The Beaver, Model of Industry
July- August, 1945
The Liberty ship W. R. Grace
August, 1944
Star of Bethlehem
November - December, 1945
Invention of the Wheel
May, 1945
Great Frood Mine, a Canadian Nickel Mine, near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
November - December, 1946
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
September, 1946
"Nanki," of Stuart Mace's Toklat Husky Kennels, new Aspen, Colorado.
March - April , 1950
Adorable Puppies
May, 1946
Red Rocks Amphitheater, designed by Burnham Hoyt
July - August, 1948
Weathered, bearded old prospector
January, 1949
Tram Towers in Canada
June, 1945
Telluride, Colorado, from the La Plata ridge above town.
February, 1944

The Parks Album

parks
Denver City Government
recreation
Branch Libraries
statues
monuments
Red Rocks Park
Denver Zoo
Special Collections
View of the garages and tool shed at the Willis Case Municipal Golf Course (formerly Rocky Mountain Golf Course) in Denver, Colorado. Round and rectangular planters are near the buildings.
Garages & tool houses
[between 1930 and 1950]
View of the women's restroom at Berkeley Park in Denver, Colorado. The stone building has a tiled roof and a painted sign that reads: "Ladies".
Women's toilet
[between 1930 and 1950]
View of a water pump house at the Wellshire Golf Course (Wellshire Country Club) in Denver, Colorado. A sign that reads "Danger" is on a door of the building.
Pump house
[between 1930 and 1940]
View of the gas station and pump at the Wellshire Golf Course (Wellshire Country Club) in Denver, Colorado. Automobiles are parked nearby. A sign near the pump reads: "Conoco Germ Processed Parafin Base Motor Oils".
Filling station
[between 1930 and 1940]
View of the water pump house in City Park near 23rd (Twenty-third) Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The building has a tile roof.
23rd St. [sic] pump house
[between 1930 and 1950]
View of a brick restroom building in City Park in Denver, Colorado.
Men's & women's toilets
[between 1930 and 1950]
View of a brick restroom building at Sloan's Lake Park in Denver, Colorado. A sign painted on a brick dividing wall reads: "Men".
Mens' and women's toilets
[1939]
View of a stone masonry concession stand at Echo Lake Park, part of the Denver Mountain Parks System (Clear Creek County), Colorado.
Concession
[between 1930 and 1940]
View of the Chief Hosa lodge, built as a restaurant by the city of Denver, at Genesee Park, part of the Denver Mountain Parks System (Jefferson County), Colorado. The stone masonry building has a covered entryway and a stone chimney.
Chief Hosa lodge
[between 1930 and 1940]
View of the club house at the Willis Case Municipal Golf Course (formerly Rocky Mountain Golf Course). The building has a tile roof and covered porch. A sign on the building reads: "Buy Tickets Inside".
Club house
[between 1930 and 1950]
View of the Wynken, Blynken, and Nod statue in a fountain in Washington Park, Denver, Colorado.
Fountain Wynkem, Blynkem & Nod [sic]
[between 1930 and 1950]
A view of the Henry White Warren Branch Library located at 34th and High Street in Denver, Colorado. The Warren branch was designed by the Fisher Brother's architects and features an Italian style design with a red tiled roof, brick foundation and cement walls. This branch opened in 1913.
Henry White Warren Branch Library
[between 1930 and 1940?]
Shows a view of the Roger W. Woodbury branch library in Denver, Colorado located on West Highland Place and Federal Boulevard. The one-story Renaissance style building was designed by J.B. Benedict and features red tiled roof, arched windows and doorways and a front balustrade. The Woodbury Branch was opened in 1913.
Roger W. Woodbury Branch Library
[between 1930 and 1940?]
A view of the Sarah Platt Decker Library Branch located in James H. Platt Park on Iowa and Logan streets in Denver, Colorado. The Decker library branch was constructed in 1913. The V-shaped English cottage features tiled roof, raised courtyard, gabled entry, chimneys and concrete trim. The branch was named for Sarah S. Platt Decker, a suffragette, club woman, and civic benefactor.
Sarah Platt Decker Branch Library
[between 1930 and 1940?]
A view of the William H. Smiley Branch Library located in Berkeley Park in Denver, Colorado. The Smiley branch opened in 1918.
Wm. H. Smiley Branch Library
[between 1930 and 1940?]
A view of the William N. Byers branch library located on West 7th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive in Denver, Colorado. The one-story building features a stucco exterior, arched windows and doorway, chimneys and red tile roof.
Wm. N. Byers Branch Library
[between 1930 and 1940?]
View of the spring house at the upper switch back of the Lariat Loop Road on the way to Lookout Mountain Park, a Denver Mountain Park located 17 miles west of Denver, Colorado. Shows two rock ashlar buildings and a water pump in front of a arched rock wall. The shelter has an arch window, a stone bench and shingled roof.
Combined shelter & pump house
[between 1930 and 1950?]
A view of a pump house at Little Park, Jefferson County, located 21 miles southwest of Denver, Colorado. The round shelter has rock ashlar walls, two arched doorways and a shingled pyramidal roof. The pump is in the center of the shelter.
Pump house
[between 1930 and 1950?]
An exterior view of Police Station number 4 located on West 26th Avenue and Federal Boulevard in Denver, Colorado. The single story brick building features cement trim and accents and a shingle roof. A sign above the entrance reads: "Police Dept."; and a neon sign above the building reads: "Police Dep't".
Police Station no. 4
[between 1930 and 1940?]
Automobiles are parked in front of the single story brick testing laboratory of the Denver Highway Department located near 8th (eighth) and Walnut Street in Denver, Colorado. Address above two doors of the building read: "811" and "805". Garage number one is in the background.
Testing laboratory
[between 1930 and 1940?]
A view of construction at Red Rocks Amphitheater, Red Rocks Park, Morrison, Jefferson County, Colorado. Shows the stage and seating area.
Red Rocks Park
[between 1936 and 1941]
A side view of the stage and seating area at Red Rocks amphitheater under construction, Red Rocks Park, Morrison, Jefferson County, Colorado.
Stage at Red Rocks Park
[between 1930 and 1950?]
Shows the small brick lighting control building at the Denver Municipal Airport (later Stapleton International Airport) in Denver, Colorado. The building features a single door, windows and a flat roof with an overhang; a chain link fence is in front of the building.
Lighting control bldg.
[between 1930 and 1940?]
Shows the meat storage unit at the Denver County Farm (Denver Farm) in Henderson, Colorado. The building is semicircular with a small door in the front. Vines cover the roof and sides. The farm served Denver's indigent and elderly from the late 1800's until it was sold in 1960.
Meat storage
[between 1930 and 1940?]
View of the 13 inch seacoast mortar donated to the city of Denver, Colorado, by the Grand Army of the Republic to commemorate the Colorado volunteer armed forces who fought in the Civil War. The cannon was placed in City Park in 1898.
The Mortar in honor of the Colorado Civil War Volunteers
[between 1930 and 1950?]
A view of the Charles E. Dickinson Branch Library of the Denver Public Library system located on Conejos Court and Hooker Street in Denver, Colorado. This building library was dedicated in 1913 and closed in 1954.
Charles E. Dickinson branch library
[between 1930 and 1940?]
View of a wooden building surrounded by a wire fence at Berkeley Park in Denver, Colorado. A wood cart is supported by the fence. A sign on the building reads: "Danger".
Chlorine plant
[between 1930 and 1950]
View of an adobe style water pump house at Berkeley Park in Denver, Colorado. The building has a tile roof.
Pump house
[between 1930 and 1950]
Shows a gazebo style shelter in City Park in Denver, Colorado.
Shelter house
[between 1930 and 1950?]
A view of the two story Spanish style pavilion designed by John J. Humphreys and William E. Fisher in City Park in Denver, Colorado. The building was erected on the west side of City Park Lake (Ferril Lake) in 1896.
Main pavilion (From N.E.)
[between 1930 and 1950?]
A view of the Phipps Auditorium near the Denver Museum of Natural History in City Park Denver, Colorado. The neoclassical style building was dedicated in 1940. The building was converted to the IMAX theater in 1983.
Phipps Auditorium - annex to Colorado Museum - City Park
[between 1930 and 1950?]
Shows the Children's Fountain located in City Park in Denver, Colorado. The marble statue and fountain was built by Max Blondet, a Prussian sculptor, in 1912. He copied the design from the original sculpture in Dusseldorf, Germany done by Henry C. Charpeot.
Fountain of Love
[between 1930 and 1950?]
A view of the old bear and sea lion habitat at the Denver Zoo in City Park in Denver, Colorado. Trees and foliage cover the rocks and boulders. The steel and plaster structure was completed in 1918 at the size of 185 feet long and 45 feet high.
Habitat - Sea Lion & bear
[between 1930 and 1950?]
View of a statue of a cowboy on a bucking bronco in Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado. The statue was sculpted by Denver artist Alexander Phimister Proctor. A plaque on the statue reads: "'Broncho Buster' presented to Denver by J.K. Mullen A.D. 1920."
Broncho Buster in Civic Center
[between 1930 and 1940?]
View of a brick building at the north gate to the Wellshire Golf Course (Wellshire Country Club) in Denver, Colorado.
North gate house
[between 1936 and 1940]
View of the starter's building on the first tee at the Wellshire Golf Course (Wellshire Country Club) in Denver, Colorado. A wooden bench is nearby.
Starter's house tee No 1
[between 1930 and 1940]
View of the powerhouse in City Park, Denver, Colorado. An automobile is parked nearby.
Power house
[between 1940 and 1950]
View of the puppet theater and woodworking shop at Rude Park Community Center at 1285 Decatur Street in Denver, Colorado. The building is a renovated railroad car.
Puppet theatre & wood work shop
[between 1934 and 1940]
View of a stone and cement grill and chimney in Washington Park, Denver, Colorado. A sign above on the chimney reads: "Presented To The City & County of Denver By The Denver Campfire Girls".
Out door grill donated by Girl Scouts [sic]
[between 1930 and 1950]
View of the octagonal lawn bowling office in Washington Park, Denver, Colorado. The wood panel building has a window box and covered entrance.
Lawn bowling office
[between 1930 and 1950]

Works Progress Administration Photographs

WPA
Works Progress Administration
Writer's Project of the WPA
Social Welfare
Children eat at tables in a W.P.A. nursery school in Denver, Colorado; food includes cake and tin cups of milk.
W.P.A. nursery school - Colorado
[between 1933 and 1950?]
Work Projects Administration (WPA) railroad construction workers in overalls and fedoras use a hammers and a crowbar to install rails at a switch on railroad tracks near Lowry Air Force Base in the Lowry Field neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a railroad signal and a culvert beside the tracks. The tracks were constructed to connect Lowry to the Union Pacific Railroad line.
Railroad construction at Lowry
1941 May 27
African American soldiers in uniform and women laugh as they stand near, or sit on, a piano at a W.P.A. armed forces center in Denver, Colorado. The women wear dresses, one has on strap heeled shoes.
Armed forces service centers
[between 1940 and 1950?]
A student welds a metal frame with a threaded t-shaped pipe on the top of it in a welding class in Greeley, Colorado in Weld County. He holds the welder in his right hand and wears a welding mask and heavy gloves that protect his hands and forearms.
School Dist. No. 6 Greeley, Colo.
[between 1930 and 1940]
Women and an African American man can food probably for school lunch programs in Denver, Colorado. Shows cans, large pots and pressure cookers.
A good illustration of the use of tin cans and pressure cookers on a small canning unit
[between 1940 and 1950?]
Two women skiers in Aspen, Colorado stand at the top of the ski hill facing downwards. Both women wear trousers, light jackets and scarves on their head. Trees are on either side of the ski slope, and the town is at the base of the hill.
Aspen 1930's ski course construction
[between 1930 and 1940]
A boy eats noodles probably part of a hot lunch program at an unidentified school in Denver, Colorado.
Noodle eater
[between 1940 and 1950?]
Arching bridge over Lake Clara at Mineral Palace Park in Pueblo, Colorado, is of random, pale stone with dark grout. Arches underneath provide support, and all is reflected in the rippled water in the foreground.
Native stone construction work done at Pueblo by WPA workers is exemplified in this foot-bridge built over Lake Clara in Mineral Palace Park. Similar stone was used in numerous WPA built structures at the State Fair Grounds and in parks.
[between 1938 and 1940?]
View of a Moderne style house in Denver, Colorado. The one-story brick masonry house has art deco accents with ornate brick work.
House
[between 1930 and 1940]
Interior view of toddler eating area, Pueblo Day Care Center (day nursery), Pueblo, Colorado, shows a woman spoon-feeding three toddlers in high chairs. There are children wearing bibs, and glasses of milk and plates of food on trays.
Day nursery, Pueblo
February 1939
An eighth grade girl's gym class forms a human pyramid at the Central School in Alamosa, Colorado. The girls wear white, short sleeved blouses, belted dark shorts, socks and white tennis shoes. Four girls are on their hands and knees in the center. Another girl is on her hands and knees on the top center of the four girls. Another stands on her back, with others standing, holding hands with outstretched arms, to form a large arch that spreads across the room.
Building pyramids in 8th grade gym class
[1941]
A Hispanic American man and woman work on traditional wooden treadle looms probably in Southern Colorado. The woman works on a Rio Grande style weaving.
Weavers
[between 1933 and 1944?]
A man stands near a crank well hoist. Two buckets are attached to the rope.
Mine well
[between 1950 and 1970]
A man works with a clay nude sculpture of a male probably in Colorado.
Sculptor
[between 1933 and 1944?]
View of Waldorf, Clear Creek County, Colorado; shows buildings including (l to r): power house, stable, Post Office, and cables of the bucket line from Santiago to Waldorf.
Waldorf, Colo. altitude: 11,666 feet at Post Office
[between 1930 and 1940]
A miner poses outdoors on a trunk on the porch of his cabin probably in Colorado. He wears a cap with a miner's light.
Miner at his cabin
[between 1930 and 1940]
A man and woman examine an exhibit at the Colorado Museum of Natural History in Denver, Colorado. A diorama features a covered wagon, people, horses, and an adobe building with vigas and a balcony.
Colorado Museum of Natural History display
[between 1933 and 1939?]
View of artifacts found at Fort Caspar in Casper (Natrona County), Wyoming. Shows harness and farrier's tools including a fish plate (from a freighter wagon), a hame and short tug, an axe, a coupling iron, a spoon, a glue pot, a yoke iron, part of a musket, a bolster iron, a telegraph insulator, a wagon hub, and horse, mule and oxen shoes.
Found in excavating at Ft Casper [i.e. Caspar]
1936 March 23
Interior view of a Great Western Sugar processing facility in Colorado; men work by vats and pipes.
Scene in Great Western factory, diffusion pattern
View of abandoned miner's cabins in Colorado.
Miner's cabin
[between 1930 and 1940]
Interior view of a Great Western Sugar processing facility in Brighton (Adams County), Colorado; a man works with a wheel valve by a sign: "Danger - Bring Centrifugal To A Complete Stop Before Putting Discharger Into The Sugar."
Centrifugal machine, Brighton, Colo, sugar beet factory
A two-door sedan approaches amid blowing dust. Telephone poles are to the sides.
Dust storm
Creede, Colorado
[between 1890 and 1900]
Teenage girls pose at the Beulah resort near Pueblo, Colorado, on the log railing of an open porch fronting a frame, one-story dormitory. The walks at the bottom of the steps are concrete with curved 'grout' lines.
Beulah mountain park (Pueblo) Ap 1939
1939
A woman and a young girl pose near a log cabin on a snow dusted landscape as a man driving a wagon approaches in the background, Colorado. The cabin has a plank front with timber walls and roof.
Typical miner's cabin
[between 1870 and 1880?]
Men examine a panoramic mountain index at Cranmer Park in the Hilltop Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; mountain names and elevations are rendered in stone tile.
Cranmer Park, Denver
[between 1930 and 1950?]
View of Colorado College, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, from the Lennox house roof; shows Shove Memorial Chapel (gift of Eugene P. Shove). John Gray's design includes a square belltower, turret, and rosette window. Cars line Nevada Avenue; Palmer Hall edges lawn.
Shove Memorial Chapel, Colo. College, Colo. Springs Campus scene with Pikes Peak in the middle background.
[between 1931 and 1940]
Men work to assemble the fossil bones of a Diplodocus gastralia for a paleontology exhibit at the Denver Museum of Natural History in Denver, Colorado. The men include Phillip H. Reinheimer, chief preparer, in the coveralls and R.L. Landberg, crouched on a scaffold beneath the skeleton.
Dinosaur skeleton - Denver Museum of Natural History
[1935]
View of a dedication ceremony with men in military uniforms, or suits and overcoats, at Lowry Army Air Force Base in the Lowry Field neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The men watch an officer hammer a spike into railroad tracks constructed by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) The men wear caps and fedoras. The tracks were constructed to connect Lowry to the Union Pacific Railroad line.
Lowry Field railroad
[1941?]

Tiny Houses

tiny houses
log cabins
primitive dwellings
First house in Poverty Gulch, Cripple Creek, Colorado; house is possibly Robert Womack's cabin in Fremont (prior to Cripple Creek incorporation) or Andy Frazier's cabin in Squaw Gulch; the one-story rounded log cabin built into the hillside has a low gable sod roof; three men wearing three-piece suits and knee high boots pose outside cabin; one man leans on miner's pick while another man, wearing a derby hat, sits on stump; additional picks and shovel are near front side entrance of cabin.
First house in Cripple Creek, Poverty Gulch
[between 1892 and 1895]
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.
A Pike's Peak prospector
[between 1882 and 1900?]
Harry Leonard and Spencer Penrose stand in front of Tutt and Penrose cabin, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one-story log cabin built in 1891 with low gable and sod roof; two saddled horses are teethered to corner of cabin; cabin includes stovepipe and wooden plank leading to front door; sparsely settled hillsides are in the background.
Tutt and Penrose Cabin built 1891 Cripple Creek, Colo.
Feb. 1894
A miner sits outside a crudely built log cabin, Gunnison, Colorado, with his pick ax and shovel. The shack is known as the Sylvester Richardson cabin and the first one in town. The structure has logs of varying sizes chinked with mud, a low sagging front gable roof, hewn log front door and window opening.
Gunnison, first house on Gunnison townsite located on west side of railroad track of Crested Butte branch, and slightly east (?) of Tomichi Avenue
1876
View of Grand Junction Town & Development Company's first office, on 2nd (Second) and Ute Streets, in Grand Junction, Colorado, with R.D. Mobley and Mrs. Jackson posed in front of the small one-room log cabin with sod roof. A "dress making" sign is attached to the cabin and a pile of firewood is between two posts supporting wire or string. Outhouses in back of the cabin show. The cabin is thought to be the first structure built in Grand Junction with R.D. Mobley the first postmaster.
Town Co's Office, Grand Junction
1882
Two small girls stand in the open gateway of a wood fence, in front of a log house, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado.
A house in Ouray
[between 1870 and 1890]
View of the Log Cabin, one of the first buildings built in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Governor Hunt built This cabin, when the Denver and Rio Grande railway arrived, in October 1871, it became the station restaurant. Identified figures, extreme left to right are: Governor Hunt, Mrs. Elisabeth Hunt McDowell (Hunt's daughter) Ed Eaton, Mrs. Helen McDowell Malhern, Major John H. McDowell (Hunt's son-in-law.) The McDowell's ran the restaurant.
Log Cabin
[between 1871 and 1875]
Dutch Mill Cottage Court
[between 1980 and 1990?]
A miner, in a striped suit with a pick axe, poses next to a log cabin in possibly Clear Creek County, Colorado. The cabin has a gabled roof, a metal chimney, a dirt roof and a sign in a window that reads: "[C]rocker [& Co.] Crac[kers], Denver." Trees are near the cabin, steep slopes and talus are on mountains above timberline.
Miners cabin in the Rockys [sic], Colo.
[1890?]
Shows the single story garage and pump house at the Evergreen Golf Course in Dedisse Park 2 miles west of Evergreen, Jefferson County, Colorado. The structure features a small covered porch with a overhang and vertical siding.
Garage & pump house
[between 1930 and 1950?]
Two men on horseback and a third man stand in front of Geyser cabin in the La Sal Mountains, probably San Juan County, Utah. Signs read, "Geyser cabin," "La Sal and Geyser Express Office," and "Stage Office." Shows a tent beside the cabin and a carcass hanging from a corner of the cabin.
Geyser cabin, La Sal Mt's, Utah
1897 July 24
A prospector and guide, with a pipe and a dog and puppies, sits by his log cabin in Teller County, Colorado. The cabin is built into a hill and has a sod roof. A cast-iron wood stove is outside the cabin, a sign reads "Burros for hire." Shows a sawhorse and a can with a spout.
St. Peter's guide at home, Colorado
[between 1882 and 1900?]
View of the Bootlegger's Cabin located at 3873 Colorado Road 46, Golden Gate Canyon State Park, Gilpin County, Colorado. This single story log cabin lies at the foot of Tremont Mountain and is an example of the hundreds of stills producing moonshine during Prohibition. The structure was added to the State Register in 1995.
Bootlegger's Cabin
2002
Two men stand on a grassy slope outside a log cabin with a tar paper roof near the mining communty of Hahn's Peak (Routt County; also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado. Piles of boards litter the ground behind the cabin.
Blue Jay Cabin, Hahns Peak, Aug. 1921
1921
View of make-shift one-room cabin with sod roof, Gillett, Colorado. The small cabin is constructed of vertical logs, and a tar paper door and window. Two posts appear to support the gable roof. Materials around the cabin include: pile of scrap wood, wooden barrels, and a clothes line connected to the house.
Cabin near Gillett
[between 1894 and 1900?]
Log cabin residence of Martha and Mary Crane, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one woman sits on upper part of split rail fence, another woman stands near fence gate and one man stands in front of cabin; former residence of Ralph Carr, ex-Governor of Colorado is in the background; residence includes stone fence or foundation, low gable roof with shingles, single entry at center, opened screen and front door, two double-sash plain windows; background includes outbuildings, mine tailings and surface buildings.
Log cabin home of Martha & Mary Crane, Cripple Creek, Colo.
1909
A woman holds a child's hand at the side of a log cabin, Goldfield, Teller County, Colorado. The front gable house is constructed of logs and hewn lumber and has one glass pane window, a mud and sod roof with a stove pipe. Several wooden boxes and crates are piled in front of the cabin and a full sack is hung on the side. A man in a horse-drawn wagon shows in distant far left.
Goldfield
[between 1894 and 1900]
Five miners stand outside of a log cabin in Dunnville, Colorado. Tents are in the background and debris and garbage litter the ground. Posters are attached to the side of the cabin.
Miners Cabin at Dunnville
1904 June 15
Hughy, a man in cowboy boots and a vest, holds a pipe and sits in front of a wood cabin with a wooden shingle roof in Colorado or Utah. A wooden doghouse is by the porch. Metal buckets, a branding iron, a drill bit, bundles of wire, hats, horseshoes, and a workbench are near the cabin.
Hughy
[between 1890 and 1900?]
Men pose by a miner's cabin identified as Hepburn's cabin in Miners Basin in the La Sal Mountains (Grand County), Utah. Shows mining tools, ropes and a rifle. The log cabin has a stone chimney and a sod roof.
Hepburn's cabin, Miners Basin, La Sal Mt's.
1897 August 10
An unidentified man leans over, possibly to tie his shoe, in front of stone cabin in the foreground in This view near Jenny Lind Gulch, a tributary of South Boulder Creek near Apex in Gilpin County, Colorado. Pine trees line the rolling hills leading back to a ridge of mountains in the distance.
Stone Cabin, Jenny Lind Gulch
[1948?]
An unidentified woman stands at the side of a large, two-story log cabin in Chihuahua Gulch near Montezuma in Summit County, Colorado. A dirt road runs from the foreground past the cabin. Pine trees stand at the base of a mountain ridge in the background.
Chihuahua Gulch, Colo. 1947
[1947?]
A boy sits in front of Buckeye Cabin in the La Sal Mountains, Utah. A sign reads, "Assay Office Buckeye Cabin." On a table are reagent bottles, a box of assay weights, a beaker, test tubes, glass-stoppered acid bottles, evaporating dishes, and a hot air sterilizer. Also shows a rifle, a shotgun, a gold washing pan, a pickaxe, a hand pick, and buckets.
Buckeye Cabin, La Sal Mt's. Utah
1897 Aug. 24
View of an abandoned cabin located in a meadow in Alice (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The one story cabin has chinked, wood plank siding, a partly collapsed roof and large log beams. Mountains are in the distance.
Alice, old cabin
1965
Three men pose by a log cabin belonging to S. J. Roberts, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one man with pants tucked into knee-high boots stands near miner's pick, broom, and sledge hammer (possibly S. J. Roberts); men sit holding a flute or fife and a fiddle or violin; a rack of elk's antlers is over the door.
Cabin of S. J. Roberts, Cripple-Creek, Colo.
1893
A man sits with his dog outside of a hewn log cabin near Rosita (Custer County), Colorado. The cabin has a single doorway, a rack of elk horns over the door, a chimney, and a sign reading: "Elkhorn Palace."
Elkhorn palace, near Rosita, Colo.
[between 1870 and 1880?]
"Old Man Topping" with a miner's pick over his shoulder and his dog pose in front of first log cabin in Cripple Creek, Colorado; the cabin is small, flat-roof and rounded with a gold pan on exterior cabin wall and a shovel propped against cabin wall.
Old Man Topping and the first log cabin in Cripple Creek
[between 1892 and 1895]

Wow Photo Wednesday~ Ramshackle Houses

squalor
shacks
shelter
off-grid
alternative housing
Exhibits
Old Olsen's log and plank shack residence Petersburg (later Englewood), Arapahoe County, Colorado, includes a hand pump and washtub.
Old Olsen, Petersburg, Colo
[between 1890 and 1900?]
View of dilapidated cabins in Independence (Pitkin County), Colorado; features barren hills with new growth.
Independence 1941 (Pitkin Co.)
1941
A dilapidated log and sheet metal shack stands on the verge of collapse at the Montezuma Mine, Pitkin County, Colorado.
Montezuma Mine
[between 1933 and 1970]
View of Finntown mining district's dilapidated structures in Stray Horse Gulch, east of Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. A small six-sided structure, possibly an outhouse, sits on a grassy slope in the foreground and is made of corrugated metal siding and has a faceted roof with finial ball, and a bracketed arched doorway. There are wood frame structures in the background and a tall smokestack on the left.
Leadville, Finntown, 1941
[1941]
Sade and Mary Elizabeth Rhoads pose outside of a tent in Colorado. A tar papered shack is nearby.
Sade Rhoads and daughter, "Mitzi," or Mary Elizabeth camping
[between 1920 and 1925?]
View of a dilapidated log cabin with a flat roof in a small grove of Aspen trees in Jasper, Colorado.
Jasper - 1942
1942
Cano's Castle, Antonito
2004
View of a dilapidated cabin nearly overgrown by vegetation in Jasper, Colorado.
Jasper - 1950
1950
Cano's Castle, Antonito, Colo.
1991
Two dilapidated flat roof log cabins are in a clearing in Jasper, Colorado. Aspen trees are in the background.
Jasper - 1950
1950
A woman holds a child bundled in a coat, hat, and mittens in Drop City, Colorado, in Las Animas County. They stand outside of a geometrically-shaped dwelling (geodome) with pentagon-shaped windows. A coarse, wood ladder leans against a conical-shaped structure in the background.
"Mrs. Oleo Margarine" with daughter "Melissa" behind them is a geodesic dome made of wood & tar - impregnated wood fiber
December 26, 1965
View of a disassembled sidewalk leading up to the ruins of the old court house, Breckenridge, Colorado; features a single leaf door with decorative moulding and a wood beam running from the ground to the top of the building; other dilapidated buildings are near the court house.
Breckenridge - 1941, ruins of court house
A man stands in the interior of a partially-finished geodesic dome in Drop City, Colorado, in Las Animas County. Light streams through the geometrically-shaped window at the top of the structure. The man holds a circular painting with his right hand and stands amidst other pieces of art on the floor.
Clard Svenson of Drop City stands inside a half-finished geodesic dome that eventually will become a theater for psychedelics
1967 August 6
View of the dilapidated Assay Office in Pitkin, Gunnison County, Colorado, a wooden, false front building with vertical board siding and a plank sidewalk surrounded by unkempt weeds and grass.
Pitkin
[between 1933 and 1970]
Interior of a geodome in the community of Drop City, Colorado, in Las Animas County; shows bed covered with blankets on floor, kitchen area including refrigerator and sink, a clock on wall set to 1:10, and light through triangular-shaped window on ceiling.
Drop City, Colorado
[about 1965]
A dilapidated log cabin in Liberty, Saguache County, Colorado, has a bench on the porch, and a ramp. Bird wings are next to the door, by a sign: "Notice."
Liberty
[1942]
View taken from inside a geodesic dome looking outside at people sitting on the ground in Drop City, Colorado, in Las Animas County. Three geodesic dwellings are in the background and have cars parked next to them.
Droppers enjoy quiet moment of relaxation on hillside & just outside a window of a geodesic dome home
1967 August 5
View of a large, dilapidated house in Gold Hill, Colorado; features a side gable, gabled dormer, an attached, closed porch, single leaf door, double hung windows, and a horizontal timber fence with a picket gate that surrounds the property; tall grass in the yard and surrounding area.
Gold Hill - 1941
1941
View of abandoned houses on Ninth Street in Denver, Colorado (Lincoln Park Neighborhood); shows dilapidated frame residences and trees.
Ugliness soon will vanish
1938 November 13
View of two dilapidated log cabins, identified as Shipler cabins, in Lulu (Grand County), Colorado.
Lulu, Colo.
1941
View of shanties on a dirt road near probably 19th (Nineteenth) Avenue and Clay Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Houses are made of wood and corrugated metal and have chimneys and roofs patched with shingles and sheet metal. A man in the road wears a v-neck sweater and a hat and smokes a pipe. Trees, scrap wood, metal pots, and laundry on a clothesline are beside buildings.
Shanti [sic] town
[between 1930 and 1940?]
View of an abandoned, dilapidated, hewn log schoolhouse in the ghost town of Turret, Colorado in Chaffee County, shows a front gable, chinking, front window and door and peeling tar paper on roof. Summer, 1974.
Miss Elizabeth Kuhn taught school in this building in Turret in 1929
Summer 1974
View of makeshift houses and shanties at 19th (Nineteenth) and Clay Streets in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. A man works by barrels and corrugated metal.
Denver 19th & Clay - squatters
1939 May 1
The Simmons house, on Letcher Street, in Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, is a dilapidated one story frame structure with a gable roof, a covered porch, and lathe-turned piers. Door and window openings are empty or covered by corrugated tin; debris covers the ground, and ruins of stone walls are in the background.
Nevadaville Simmons' house - Letcher St log cabin inside one of the oldest houses in Nevadaville built in early '60's.
[between 1938 and 1940?]
A man wears a v-neck sweater, pants, and a hat and smokes a pipe in front of a shanty at probably 19th (Nineteenth) Avenue between Bryant and Clay Streets in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Houses are made of wood, corrugated metal, sheet metal, and tar paper. A roof has a scalloped edge at the eves. A pile of bricks, wooden trunks, laundry on a clothesline, and metal buckets are near trees. An address number "2645" is above a door.
Shanti [sic] town
[between 1930 and 1940?]
View of a dilapidated two-story wood frame false front with a corrugated metal gable roof, dentiled cornice, two upper-story windows, remains of an outside side stairway and a single door entry flanked by windows in Gothic, Gunnison County, Colorado. A faded sign reads: Lee's Tavern; two small gabled sheds show in background. Gothic was a mining boom town from 1879 to 1884; bought, in 1928, by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory for plant and animal research.
Gothic
1958
View of makeshift houses and shanties at 19th (Nineteenth) and Clay Streets in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado.
Denver 19th & Clay - squatters
1939 May 1
View of a dilapidated adobe house located at 215 E. De Vargas Street, Santa Fe (Santa Fe County), New Mexico. The house has vigas, chimneys and a stone buttress, and is thought to be the oldest house in the city. Shows a woman with a basket on her head and a dog.
Oldest house in the United States, Santa Fe, N.M.
[between 1899 and 1905?]
View of a dilapidated shack in Eureka, Colorado; features a lean- to and flat roof, sheet metal and horizontal wood siding, and rectangular windows; cottonwood tree behind the shack, with cliff bands and mountains in the far distance.
Eureka - 1958
1958
House of Henry Gillespie, later known as Ghost House
[between 1960 and 1970]
The Ouray Gun Club poses with their rifles outside a board-and- batten shack on a snowy day north of Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. They include, left to right: Gus Arps in cart drawn by a small burro, unidentified man, Albert Arps, Otto Arps, Charley Pearson, Barney Du Praw, Andy Sneva, Ed Arps, Alf Armstrong, George Armstrong (little boy.)
Ouray Gun Club
February, 1909
A saddled horse stands in front of a dilapidated plank cabin, Eureka (San Juan County), Colorado. A leaning log supports the cabin, which has tar paper covering the walls, a gable roof, and a shed attachment.
Eureka, prospector's cabin
1904
Two Native American (Miwok) women pose near a dilapidated wooden shack in Yosemite National Park, California. One woman, wearing a striped dress, sits holding a basket she is weaving. The other woman stands behind, wearing a long dress with leg o' mutton sleeves and a hat. The shack is loosely constructed and is surrounded by debris. A small bear is on the ground between the women.
Native American women, Yosemite National Park
[between 1890 and 1910?]

Luxury Interiors of the West

Western History/Genealogy
photographs
photography
historical
Denver Colorado
View of a covered patio in Denver, Colorado. Coffered ceilings, wrought iron lamps, couches, chairs, potted plants, and a tile floor comprise the decor. An open plaza is to the side.
Spanish patio - Denver residence (may be Evans house)
1940
Interior view of the Henry Viley Johnson residence in Denver, Colorado; decor includes a velvet couch with pillows, a mantle with mirror, and vase of peacock feathers.
Henry Viley Johnson residence
[between 1890 and 1900?]
Interior view at the Claude K. Boettcher residence, in Denver, Colorado; living room decor includes curved couches, chairs, an ottoman, glass tables, Corinthian capitols, a crystal chandelier, palms, and curtains.
Claude Kedzie Boettcher residence
[between 1950 and 1970?]
Interior view of the John Albert Ferguson house at 700 Washington Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Elizabethan style decor includes chairs, sofas, tables, lamps, heavy drapes, and ornate trim.
The great drawing room is called by experts one of the finest examples of Elizabethan interior architecture in U. S.
1948
Interior view of the F. J. Bancroft house in Denver, Colorado; decor includes Oriental rugs, a hanging lamp, a taxidermied heron, ewers, a Buddha, framed art, and upholstered chairs.
Back room library Bancroft residence 1755 Grant
between 1890 and 1900
Interior view of the Finding residence in Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado; decor includes china plates, wicker chairs, a pitcher,a table made of machine parts, books, a seashell, a stove, drapes, a combination bookcase, plants, fans, ingrain carpet, oriental rugs, cut paper dainties, and greeting cards. A dog sleeps on the floor.
C.A. Finding residence
[between 1890 and 1900?]
Interior view of a house in Denver, Colorado; decor includes Oriental rugs, rocking chairs, a fireplace, lamps, flower vases, porcelain, photos, and a piano.
Ornate parlor
[between 1900 and 1920?]
Interior view of the living room in the Lawrence Cowle Phipps house at 3400 Belcaro Drive in the Belcaro neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Chairs, tables, a sofa, fireplace, a chandelier, and portraits comprise decor.
Lawrence Cowle Phipps residence
1949
Interior view of the Mitchell Benedict residence (Lang & Pugh architects) in Denver, Colorado; decor includes tuck and roll upholstery, book cases, coved ceilings, and wood door frames.
Judge Benedict's house on 1200 Pennsylvania - the library
1899
Cleveholm interior
Interior view of the Alonzo Thompson residence (Baerresen Brothers Architects) in Denver, Colorado; decor includes a fireplace, carved wood columns, a chandelier, urns, bookshelves, china, framed paintings, a coffered ceiling, and stencils. A table and chair have acanthus motifs; a mosaic depicts a woman at a spinning wheel.
Library (Hon. Alonzo Thompson)
[1905?]
Interior view of the William Church house at 10th (Tenth) Avenue and Corona Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The walls have decorative leather work and the ceiling has ornate trim.
Red and green tooled leather on walls
1948
Interior view of the Alonzo Thompson residence (Baerresen Brothers Architects) in Denver, Colorado; the drawing room has French Empire style decor which includes classical entablature, leaded glass, dentils, plaster ornament, a chandelier, a sculpture, a fireplace, torcheres, mirrors, and urns.
Dining room (Hon. Alonzo Thompson)
[1905?]
Interior view of the Claude K. Boettcher residence, in Denver, Colorado; decor includes upholstered couches, chairs, ottomans, palms, a sculpture of a woman, lamps, a crystal chandelier, classical columns, and a planter with bas-relief ornaments.
Palm Room - 60 ft wide & 70 ft long
1948
Interior view of a home, probably in Denver, Colorado. Shows crystal chandeliers, oriental rugs, potted plants, lamps, furniture, drapery, decorative columns and molding.
Home interior
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Interior view of Trinidad Country Club, Trinidad, Colorado
[between 1921 and 1925?]
Interior view of a Denver, Colorado, residence; dining room furnishings include a brick fireplace, wood paneling, molding, Art Nouveau wallpaper, a pedestal table, leather upholstered wood chairs, Oriental rug, stained glass lamp, built-in buffet, crystal punch bowl, silver coffee pot, and china cabinet. Vases and photographs top the mantle.
Denver residences, interior
[between 1910 and 1920?]
Interior view of a Denver, Colorado residence; decor includes brocade upholstery, a settee, chairs, tables, a foot stool, china pitchers, crystal, carpet, rugs, and a potted palm.
Back to frount (sic) room
[between 1910 and 1930?]
Interior view of the long reception hall in the Frederick Warshauer residence in Antonito, Conejos County, Colorado; includes Arts and Crafts furniture, chairs, tables, benches with leather pillows, lamps, hanging lanterns, oriental rugs, bronze sculptures, and potted palm plants; beamed ceiling with a stenciled border and stairway leading to the second floor.
Reception hall looking north toward dining room, built 1912, still standing 1923 [Frederick Warshauer residence].
[between 1960 and 1980]
Interior view of a fireplace in the dining room of the David Moffat house at 808 Grant Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. A decorative wooden mantle and metal grates are nearby.
Moffat home
1960
Interior view of the living room in the Lawrence Cowle Phipps house at 3400 Belcaro Drive in the Belcaro neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Chairs, tables, a sofa, fireplace, a chandelier, and portraits comprise decor.
Lawrence Cowle Phipps residence
1949
Interior view of Richthofen Castle at 7020 East 12th (Twelfth) Avenue in the Montclair neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Chairs, a sofa, grand piano, and a palm tree are in the room.
Richthofen Castle interior
[1948]
Interior view of a dining room in Denver, Colorado. Decor includes a table carved griffin legs, an Oriental rug, silver urns and vases, a stuffed bird, a crystal punch bowl, and a sideboard with a silver serving set. A ram's head is mounted above the door.
Interior of a Denver residence
[between 1890 and 1910?]
Club room, Cleveholm, Redstone
[between 1905 and 1915?]
Eastward view of the rotunda (lobby) of the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; various upholstered, wicker, and wooden chairs and tables; three supporting pillars at left; two windows at right; fireplace at eastern wall; taxidermied animals mounted on walls.
Section of Rotunda "The Colorado" Glenwood
[between 1893 and 1901]
View of a sunroom in the Crawford Hill house at 969 Sherman Avenue, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The room has a tiled floor, brick walls, and a coffered ceiling. A large, square table with a pedestal and four carved legs is in the center of the room. Wicker and slipcovered furniture is scattered throughout the room. A large metal lantern hangs over the table. Shows potted plants , a mirror, and large windows with sheer blinds and shades. An oriental rug is under the table.
Sun room, Crawford Hill house
[between 1910 and 1920]
Interior Crawford Hill house
[between 1910 and 1920]
Dining room, Crawford Hill house
[between 1910 and 1920]
Interior, Crawford Hill house
[between 1910 and 1920]
Great hall at Glen Eyrie
[between 1887 and 1900?]
Arthur E. Johnson residence
[1939?]
View the billiard room at Cleveholm (Osgood Castle), the home of John Cleveland Osgood, located in Redstone (Pitkin County), Colorado. The room has a large, carved billiard table, a fireplace flanked by two glass fronted cases, a carved sideboard and a table and chairs. A bronze chandelier with two glass shades hangs over the billiard table. An oriental rug is on the floor.
Billiard room, Cleveholm
Interior Hotel Campion, Twin Lakes, Colo. Midland Ry.
[between 1895 and 1900]
Interior view of the library at the David H. Moffat house at 808 Grant Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. A sofa, chairs, table, bookcase, and fireplaces are in the room.
Dave Moffatt [sic] library residence 8th & Grant
1923

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ William Henry Jackson

Acclaimed Western Photographers
photography
glass plate negatives
Frontier West
Photographer
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.
A Pike's Peak prospector
[between 1882 and 1900?]
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.
Dome ceiling of the Colo. Mineral Palace
[between 1882 and 1900?]
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.
Residence in Denver
[between 1882 and 1900?]
View of Native American (Taos) Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; shows adobe buildings with wood decks, adobe wall and ovens.
Pueblo of Taos. N.M.
[between 1882 and 1900?]
View of mountain and tree reflections in pool on Fountain Creek with railroad tracks, trestle, and cattle, El Paso County, Colorado.
Reflections. The valley of the Fountain Qui Bouille
[between 1882 and 1890]
View of the Iron Silver Mine in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. Shows Mine buildings, smokestacks and a trestle for ore cars.
The Iron Silver Mine Leadville
[between 1882 and 1890]
View of Cathedral Spires, a sandstone rock formation at Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows a dirt road and brush.
Cathedral Spires
Men pose near a toll gate on the Otto Mears toll road in Ouray County, Colorado. A horse-drawn buggy, wood frame building, and a man on horseback are nearby. Bear Creek Falls is under the bridge.
Toll gate at Bear Creek falls
[between 1882 and 1900?]
Two men and a dog are outside a log store for miners in Fremont (Cripple Creek, Teller County), Colorado. The sign above the store reads "J.L. Niebergall, Headquarters for Gents Furnishings Boots & Shoes." Shirts, pants, jackets, gloves, socks, shoes and boots are arranged on boxes and hung on beams outside the cabin. A sign outside the cabin includes price list. Suspenders hang in the window. A sign: "Lodging," is on a stack of building materials beside a plank building under construction.
A Merchant at Cripple Creek, Fremont
[between 1882 and 1900?]
View of the Horace Ferguson Ranch in Estes Park, Larimer County, Colorado. Shows a ranch house, cabins and a barn.
Ferguson's ranch. Estes Park
[between 1879 and 1881]
View of five miners and dog at log cabin with dirt roof, Colorado.
Miners at home
[between 1882 and 1900?]
View of the statue of King-Coal against a backdrop of gilded plasterwork and ornate wallpaper in the Colorado Mineral Palace, Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. The statue is made of coal, diamonds, and diamond dust, the figure is seated on a pedestal of copper and nickel with a glass display case below. Illumination is supplied by four dual-bulb floor lamps, one at each corner of the pedestal. A sign reads: "King-Coal of Trinidad." Shows a stairway to an upper floor through an archway.
King-Coal of Trinidad
1891
Six men are gathered on the front deck of the The Crusher, the first newspaper in Fremont (Cripple Creek, Teller County), Colorado. Oakley Spell, a young boy, holds a bundle of newspapers under his arm; a sign on the log building reads: "The Crusher."
The Cripple Creek Crusher
[between 1882 and 1900?]
Close-up view of the statue of King-Coal in the Colorado Mineral Palace, Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. The statue is made of coal, diamonds, and diamond dust, the figure is seated on a pedestal with a glass display case below. Lighting is supplied by four dual-bulb floor lamps, one at each corner of the pedestal. A sign reads: "King-Coal of Trinidad." Shows part of the stage with stalactite and stalagmite decoration. A pipe organ is nearby with a sign that reads: "The Pueblo Smelting [?]"
King-Coal of Trinidad
1891
View of Seven Castles rock formation near Basalt (Eagle County), Colorado. A Colorado Midland Railway locomotive and train parallels the Fryingpan River.
Seven Castles, Frying Pan creek
[1900]
Assayers work in a lab probably in Colorado. A stove, mortars, pestles, tongs, and other equipment are in the room.
Assaying
1897
View of a Colorado Midland locomotive, baggage and mail car, and excursion car high on a railroad trestle in a gorge near Buena Vista, Chaffee County, Colorado. Shows employees of the rail company on the train. A wood frame building is in the valley
High railroad trestle
[between 1880 and 1890]
A Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge locomotive stops on a high wooden trestle over the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River near Lake Fork Junction, Gunnison County, Colorado. Workmen look out from the engine cabin. Shows boulders and brush.
D.& R.G.R.R Bridge over Lake Fork
[between 1886 and 1890?]
View of group of men with meal at chuckwagon, shows barn, tent and horse, Colorado.
Grub pile
[between 1882 and 1900?]
View of group of girls on donkeys with man, carriage and ornate gazebo at Ute Iron Spring Chateau, Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado.
Donkey party at Iron Springs [graphic]
[between 1882 and 1900?]
View of a mule drawn wagon with supplies set behind it, possibly the photographer's, near large jagged sandstone rock formations in what is now Roxborough State Park, Douglas County, Colorado. Shows a man by the wagon; two men pose by a small rock formation in the foreground.
Red sandstones near Platte Canyon
[between 1881 and 1890?]
View of Glenwood Canyon and the Colorado River with the "Glenwood Extension" of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad line in Garfield County, Colorado. Shows telegraph poles.
The walls of the canon. Grand River Glenwood extension D.& R.G.R.R.
[between 1886 and 1900?]
A man poses in Cliff Palace, a Native American (Anasazi) cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park, in Montezuma County, Colorado. Shows masonry ruins and a stone overhang.
Cliff Palace. Mesa Verde.
1893
View of the oldest house in Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah; shows a one story hewn log cabin with chinking and a hewn board roof, a double horizontal window with panes of glass, a door and stone chimney. A man and two young boys stand and sit on chairs and benches near the house. Shows a small dirt yard with garden, a cold frame, a wooden push cart with one wheel, a wooden gate, trees. Shows part of a two story brick masonry house.
Oldest House in Salt Lake
[between 1890 and 1900?]
A man poses with burros that carry wooden casks in the mountains of Colorado.
A mountain water cart
[between 1882 and 1900?]
View of John A. McMurtrie home at 1007 Pennsylvania Street, Capitol Hill neighborhood, Denver, Colorado; features rusticated stone, turrets, arches, a covered porch, and ornate chimneys.
Res. of J.A. McMurtrie
[between 1890 and 1900?]
View of the Ouray - Silverton road, the Otto Mears toll road, in Ouray County, Colorado; log retaining structures bridge sections of the road. The Uncompahgre River is in the valley below.
Ouray and Silverton toll road
[between 1890 and 1910?]
Miners pose near mud plastered dugout houses (a duplex) in Colorado. they wear hats with miners lights. One man smokes a pipe.
Miners
[between 1882 and 1900?]
View of men in chain of ore carts being pulled by General Electric engine with frame building, a man stands beside the door, Colorado.
Miners and ore carts
[between 1882 and 1900?]
A driver in a horse-drawn buggy and a man on horseback stop on the Otto Mears toll road on a high cliff probably Ouray County, Colorado. Shows talus and rock formations, the narrow road is buttressed with logs. A passenger sits by the road.
Ouray Toll Road
[between 1880 and 1890?]
View of snow-capped Mount Hood, a volcano located between Hood River County and Clackamas County, Oregon. Shows clouds near the summit, and heavily forested foot hills.
Mt. Hood, Oregon
Panoramic view of Marshall Pass in Chaffee County Colorado. Shows Denver and Rio Grande trains on switchbacks on the pass. , Mount Ouray is in the distance.
Marshall Pass
View of eroded striated bluffs and cliffs, the pillar Tollgate Rock and The Palisades on Green River in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
Bluffs of the Green River
View of an arcade at Mission San Juan Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano, California. Plants grow from the top of a colonnade, and rubble is piled against a wall. Plants grow wild in the central patio of the mission. The adobe walls and flagstone arches of the mission have missing plaster. The buildings have red clay tile roofs.
Mission San Juan Capistrano
View of Glacier Point and Half (South) Dome and Yosemite Valley with group of men atop rock precipice, Yosemite National Park, California.
Glacier Point and South Dome, Yosemite Valley, Calif.
1898
View of Lake Magog, a glacier, and Mount Assiniboine in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. Shows an alpine lake at the foot of rugged snow covered peaks.
Mount Assiniboine, Alberta, Canada
View of Sapphire Pool, a hot spring with mineral incrustations, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Sapphire Pool, Yellowstone National Park
1902
Sitting studio portrait of Native American (Tabeguache band, Southern Ute) Chief Ouray, and Otto Mears, an interpreter and businessman. Ouray wears beaded moccasins, leggings, shirt, and fringed coat, Mears wears a three piece suit.
Ouray, Otto Mears
[1880?]
View of Hymen Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Shows thermal pools and terraces, the Liberty Cap, an extinct hot spring cone, and two-story buildings with red roofs, probably Fort Yellowstone.
Hymen Terrace, Yellowstone National Park
1902
View of Castle Geyser in the process of eruption and a hot spring pool in Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Castle Geyser, Yellowstone National Park
1898
View of a leafless Silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra), with a buttressed trunk, near a two story building in Nassau, Bahamas. The building has porches and shuttered windows. A fence surrounds the tree. A house is in the distance.
Ceiba or Silk Cotton tree, Nassau, Bahama Islands
North American Indian (Pawnee) men and women sit and stand on and near earthen lodges at sunset probably in Nebraska. They are wrapped in blankets. Shows fences made of twigs or brush, and a plaza with an American flag that flies near the entrance to a lodge.
Pawnee village, evening ceremonial
[between 1932 and 1938?]
A wagon train moves towards the North Platte River and Chimney Rock, on the Oregon Trail, in Morrill County, Nebraska. Shows Conestoga wagons pulled by oxen, a herd of horses, men on horseback, and women and children. A boy holds a rifle and a dead rabbit and two young girls pick wildflowers. Rock formations are in the distance.
Chimney Rock region, Neb.
1929
A view of the library in the Denver, Club at 17th (Seventeenth) and Glenarm in Denver, Colorado. The interior has upholstered wooden chairs, tables, bookcases, paintings in gilded frames, chandeliers, and a fireplace.
Denver Club - The Library
A panoramic view of Denver, Colorado; shows the Brown Palace Hotel and the Kittredge building.
Denver
A view of Lawrence and 15th (Fifteenth) streets in Denver, Colorado; shows pedestrians, cable cars, utility poles, smokestacks, and commercial buildings. Signs read "Wright Clothing" and "Golding, Loftus & Breunert Carpets and Draperies.
Lawrence Street from 15th, north
A panoramic view of Denver, Colorado; shows 16th (Sixteenth) Street, the Denver City Hall, the Arapahoe County Courthouse, the Kittredge Building, and the First Congregational Church. The Front Range is in the distance.
Denver
View of the pavilion near City Park (Ferril) Lake in City Park, Denver, Colorado. The Spanish Colonial Revival style building has towers with tile roofs and an arcade. People sit on chairs at the shore of the lake with parasols as groups in rowboats go by. A band can be seen in the bandstand on the lake.
The pavilion and lake, City Park, Denver, Col.
View of Long Lake and Navajo Peak, Apache Peak, and Shoshoni Peak, in the Indians Peaks in Boulder County, Colorado. A man stands on a spit with trees on the lake.
The heart of the Rockies
Panoramic view of Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows houses on probably Hill Street (Mapleton Avenue). Downtown public and commercial buildings include the domed Boulder County Courthouse and the Masonic Temple Building. The University of Colorado and houses are on University Hill, and The Flatirons are in the distance.
Boulder, Colorado
View of North American Indian (Ancestral Puebloan) dwellings in Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Shows masonry and mud square and round ruins under a cliff overhang on Chapin Mesa. Cliff Canyon is in the distance.
Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, from the ruins
Panoramic view of unidentified lakes or ponds, a plain scattered with trees, and the Spanish Peaks in Huerfano County, Colorado.
The Spanish Peaks

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Horace S. Poley

Acclaimed Western Photographers
Native Americans
Colorado Springs
photography
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.
Horsemen crossing the Los Pinos River
[1899]
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.
Ruin in Cliff Cañon from the north
1901
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.
Cochiti Pueblo Indians
[1918?]
A Native American (tribe unknown) man stands on a wooden ladder which leads out of a kiva at Ceremonial Cave, near Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. The round, covered kiva stands in a cliffside cave.
Rito de los Frijoles Ceremonial cave Indian in Kiva entrance showing cave roof
1908
View of spectators awaiting the beginning of the Snake Dance at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona (Hopi Native American). Groups of men, women and children sit and stand on pueblo buildings with chimney pots as well as on adobe steps and near the dance area. Photographers and their cameras stand among the crowd.
The expectant spectators, many on the roof of the buildings.
August, 1899
Native American (Hopi) antelope altar shows sandpainting; clay pedestals and crooks (ceremonial bows) around painting, water gourds, corn stalks, baskets, medicine bowl, rattles; Walpi pueblo, Arizona.
Antelope altar at Walpi
[between 1900 and 1920?]
Native American (Pueblo) woman and three children stand by a beehive oven (horno), north plaza, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. The woman wears a shawl covering her head and shoulders, there is a basket of bread by her feet. An adobe pueblo cluster is in the background.
Indian bakery, Pueblo, Taos, N.M.
1902 September 29
A man stands on a wooden ladder at the Long House Ruin, Native American (Anasazi) talus dwelling, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. Other ladders lean against the tuff dwellings which have holes for vigas.
Canon of the Rito de los Frijoles Ladders at cliff houses
1915
Native American (Hopi) Walpi Pueblo, Arizona with multi-story adobe and masonry structures on mesa with windows, doors, and ladders. Shows wood pile, metal bucket, ladder against a stone wall in foreground, valley in background.
Walpi
[1918?]
Native American (Hopi) men and children stand in a courtyard at Oraibi Pueblo, Third Mesa, Arizona. One man in the group holds a basket. The adobe and stone cluster homes have adobe stairs, wooden vigas, and wood pole cross beams supported by the walls. A tripod stands in the courtyard.
Oraibi Pueblo
[1899?]
Reproduction of a painting; Native American (Hopi) woman prepares corn on a metate. Behind her is an adobe building, ristras, and pottery.
A Hopi matron preparing corn for the mill stone
[between 1895 and 1925?]
View of large petrified log segments at Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona. The log-like rocks stand on their sides and ends on a rocky desert landscape. Possibly Blue Mesa stands in the distance.
Petrified Forest, Arizona
[between 1890 and 1906]
Photomechanical reproduction of a photograph by George Kennan shows multi-story buildings in Gimry, in the Untsukulsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, in Russia.
A nearer view of Gimry
[1918?]
Deck and rocking chairs are arranged on the balcony of the Casino at the Broadmoor Hotel and Casino, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. A fanlight tops double doors; columns with ornate capitals support the beamed ceiling.
Casino porch, Broadmoor
[between 1898 and 1910?]
A woman holds a child's hand at the side of a log cabin, Goldfield, Teller County, Colorado. The front gable house is constructed of logs and hewn lumber and has one glass pane window, a mud and sod roof with a stove pipe. Several wooden boxes and crates are piled in front of the cabin and a full sack is hung on the side. A man in a horse-drawn wagon shows in distant far left.
Goldfield
[between 1894 and 1900]
A group of Native American (Navajo) men, a woman, child, and baby in a cradleboard pose outdoors near an unhitched wagon at Shiprock, New Mexico. The men are wrapped in woven blankets and wear headbands. The woman wears a dress and shawl. The girl wears a dress with a wide belt. The woman holds a baby in a cradleboard.
31. Navajo Indians Shiprock
[between 1890 and 1908]
View of Cliff Palace, a group of Native American (Anasazi) cliff dwellings, before excavation, Chapin Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma County, Colorado. Window holes are visible throughout the masonry homes' walls. One wall has a large hole and shows signs of cracking. Masonry and rocks litter the grounds.
Cliff Palace before excavation
[1908?]
View of a Native American (Navajo) summer hogan. The brush shelter stands near two crossed wooden poles that support a horizontal pole.
Navaho summer hogan
[1908?]
Interior view of the Drawing Room at the Palace of Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Chairs, tables, a footstool, and a lamp sit in the center of the room. A boy sits in one of the chairs that line the wall. A couch sits next to the fireplace. Paintings are hung on the walls. Greenery hangs from the chandelier. Statuettes stand on the mantle.
Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico. [graphic] : During the incumbency of Governor L. Bradford Prince Drawing Room.
[between 1890 and 1893]
Studio portrait (sitting) of a Native American (Navajo) man. The man wears a woven blanket and holds a stone and wood hand drill. He sits on a wooden crate that reads: "[?] Factory Hartford [G]eneral Sales of [?] 253 Broadway [Ne]w York, U. S. A.".
Navajo
1910
Studio portrait of a Native American (Navajo) man. The man wears a shirt and a squash blossom necklace.
Navajo
1910
Close-up view of the Puye Cliffs, Native American (Tewa) tuff dwellings, at Puye Cliff Dwellings, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. The cliffs have arched doorways that stand underneath holes for vigas.
Pajarito Park Puye Cliffs- openings for beam ends
1910
View of the Climax Mine works near Midway, Teller County, Colorado. Three men sit and stand near a wooden building with a metal roof through which a hoist protrudes. A horse stands near the building. A pile of mine tailings stands near the works. Patches of light snow cover the ground. Snow covered Pike's Peak stands in the far distance.
Climax- Pike's Peak in the distance
[between 1890 and 1915]
View of the Native American (Anasazi) Tyuonyi ruins in Pajarito Park (later Bandelier National Monument), New Mexico. A circular group of foundations of Pueblo style buildings circumscribe possibly three round kiva holes. A wooden rail fence separates the excavated ruins from trees and bushes growing on the adjacent mountains. A dirt road leads to the ruins.
"The Delight Makers" home. Tyuonyi, the most interesting ruin in Pajarito Park
[between 1900 and 1916]
Business partners Charles L. Tutt and Spencer Penrose, Mrs. Tutt, and Nina Crosby pose in a flower decorated buggy for the Sunflower Carnival Parade, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The men wear white suits and straw hats; the women wear flowered hats and carry a ruffled parasol.
Second annual Sunflower Carnival
1894
Native American men (Hopi), snake dancers, stand in a circle at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona; five men handle snakes, one holds a snake in his mouth; one man strokes a rattle snake (on the ground) with a feather, while groups of unidentified Native American and white men and women look on; snake members wear kilts and bead necklaces; some wear body paint.
Moki Indians, Wolpi Pueblo tickling a rattler with an eagle feather
August, 1899
Sunflower Carnival Parade, Colorado Springs, Colorado: a man poses with a bicycle that is covered with a large seahorse-shape frame and decorated in flowers and netting. A flag hangs from the top that reads: "The Sterling Bicycle, Built Lik[e] a Watch."; sign on side of bicycle reads: "Sterling." The man wears a costume with flowers and a large hat.
Sunflower carnival parade
1899
Moki Indians Walpi family about their doorway
1899
Interior view of a kiva, possibly the snake kiva, at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona; two unidentified Native American (Hopi) men sit in the kiva; one man sits on a wooden crate at a wooden loom and weaves a dark blanket or rug while another looks on; both men wear pants and print shirts, one wears a woven hat, one wears a headband and no shoes.
Weaving prayer rug in deserted kiva or cave in the rock Moki Indians, Walpi Pueblo
1899
A group of Native American (Navajo) men and boys, in hats, shirts, overalls or pants, pose on a sidewalk in Farmington, New Mexico, by the Farmington to Shiprock auto truck. The convertible truck has packages and bundles tied to the back and one man seated on a square basket; another man stands by the running board. Shows store fronts with signs that read: "Mercantile Co." and "The Rexall Store" and a large "Rexall" thermometer on wall.
Farmington-Shiprock auto truck
1912
Outdoor portrait (standing) of a Native American (Hopi) woman near a Pueblo doorway at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona; she wears a dark manta, print and fringed shawl, woven blanket shawl, bead necklace with open hoop pendant, and hair in side whirls.
The belle of the village Moki Indians, Walpi Pueblo
1899
Interior view of a kiva, possibly the snake kiva, at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona; two unidentified Native American (Hopi) men sit near a loom; a wooden ladder leans against a large opening in the ceiling; a clay bowl is next to the ladder; one man sits on a wooden crate at a wooden loom suspended from the ceiling by fur pelts, and weaves a dark blanket or rug; one man sits against the wall; both men wear pants and print shirts; one wears no shoes.
Interior of ancient snake kiva, weaver making blanket Moki Indians, Walpi Pueblo
1899
A Native American man (Taos), poses outdoors at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. The man wears moccasins, fringed leggings, and is wrapped in a woven blanket. Adobe cluster homes and drying racks stand in the distance. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains stand in the far distance.
Pajarito Park
[between 1908 and 1925]
View, facing northwest at the corner of Main and South Temple Streets, of Temple Square, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon Tabernacle, the Seagull Monument, and Assembly Hall (Endowment House) are in view. A gold statue of Moroni on the main spire of the temple is visible. A trolley car, tracks, and electrical wires are on and above South Temple Street.
View of the Morman Temple and Tabernacle
[1897]
Man sits in a window opening of a Native American (Tewa) talus dwelling at the Puye Cliff Dwellings, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. The talus dwellings have holes for vigas and petroglyphs on the exterior wall.
Puye cliff- Pajarito Park
[either 1909 or 1910]
Interior view of the First National Bank, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, features coffered wood ceilings and an ornate, three-windowed tellers box and brass footrails under writing shelves. A. H. Hunt, the cashier is behind beaded grating and another man stands in the background. Signs read: "Cashier," "Teller," "Next Window," and "Revenue Stamps for sale at This window."
1st Nat. Bank, 20 yrs. ago, A. H. Hunt, cash, at window
[between 1910 and 1920?]
Close-up view of Native American (Anasazi) talus dwellings at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. Two ladders rest against irregularly shaped door openings. The tuff dwellings have holes for vigas.
Canon of the Rito de los Frijoles Two ladders at cliff houses
1915

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Lloyd Rule

Acclaimed Western Photographers
photography
graphic impact
Denver
Photographer
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."
Saddle Tramp - movie opening Fox Intermountain Theaters
[1950]
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.
Cradle story
[between 1950 and 1960?]
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.
Denver Post delivery boy Estes Park
1950 February 26
View of James Motor Company at 1278 Lincoln Street (at 13th / Thirteenth) in Denver, Colorado; features include stone gothic arches, stepped pediments with shield motifs and spindles. Signs read: "Dodge," "Plymouth," and "Parts."
James Motor Company
[between 1948 and 1955?]
An elderly Korean man, his wife and a young boy pose near a stone and cement building in South Korea. The man wears linen knee length pants (paji) and a loose shirt with 3/4 length sleeves. He is balding and has a beard and long mustache. He smokes a long, bamboo and metal traditional Korean pipe. The woman sits beside the man and wears a white linen dress (hanbock). The child wears a sweater.
Korean family
[between 1952 and 1953?]
A teenaged boy and girl purchase popcorn at a stand festooned with balloons in (probably) Denver, Colorado. A sign reads: "Popcorn by Dunkin' 10 cents a Bag," a scale and shelves of liquor bottles are in a nearby concession; a neon sign reads: "Louie Gr...."
Dunkin' Doughnut
[between 1940 and 1955?]
View of a rural dirt road in South Korea. Groups of people sit and stand near a large pine tree. A vendor's stand is under the tree. Mountains are in the distance.
Roadside rest stop
[between 1952 and 1953?]
View of the Triborough Bridge and the Hell Gate Railroad Bridge in the borough of Queens, New York City, New York. A woman in uniform and garrison cap sits on a bench in Astoria Park.
Suspension bridges
[between 1940 and 1950?]
Interior view of probably the executive offices of the Acme Upholstery Supply Co., 1333 Wazee Street in the Auraria neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Shows the door to an office flanked with wooden doors decorated with panels with stamped brass insets. A man sits at a desk, a large decorative world map is on the wall behind him.
Acme Upholstery Supply Co. 1333 Wazee
1968 Aug. 4
View of a pickup truck parked in a dirt backyard probably in the Sun Valley neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Shows stuccoed brick houses, wooden fences and sheds and garages.
Probably the Sun Valley neighborhood, Denver
[between 1955 and 1960?]
Scott Brady, star of "Canon City," and Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post from 1946-1971, with a Denver Post newspaper, look at the headlines in an office in Denver, Colorado. A sheet with "The Denver Post Deadline Schedule" sits on the desk. The headline, about the 1947 prison break on which "Canon City" was based, reads: "2 Slain, 9 Captured, In State Pen Break, Stir Crazy Cons Lead Pen Break."
Scott Brady, and newspaper front page about prison break
1948 July
View of Arvada, Colorado, from Inspiration Point near 50th Avenue and Gray Street. Shows Clear Creek, the Wadsworth Drive-In Theater, the Arvada water tower, a two story stuccoed house, agricultural fields, and a bridge. Front Range mountains are in the distance.
Suburban Denver
[between 1955 and 1960?]
A Red Cross nurse talks to a woman in an iron lung (respirator) at Denver General Hospital (Denver Health Medical Center) in Denver, Colorado. Her uniform has a patch that reads: "American Red Cross," and she holds a toy stuffed rabbit.
Denver General iron lung
1954 July 23
Pat Boone, a singer and actor, poses with an unidentified man, probably in Denver, Colorado. A Colorado State trooper is nearby.
Pat Boone
[between 1955 and 1960?]
View of a business in Denver, Colorado; signs read "Creamery Meadow Gold Ice Cream," "Rainbo Bread," "Coca Cola," and "3457."
Meadow Gold Creamery
[between 1943 and 1945?]
A bride and groom pose for a wedding studio portrait in (probably) Denver, Colorado. The bride's wedding dress has a puddle train; she wears a wide brimmed hat and carries a trailing orchid bouquet. The man wears a suit and tie.
Zumploble
[between 1948 and 1955?]
A man in a woodchuck costume poses with a taxidermy mounted groundhog in Denver, Colorado for a Cancer Society fundraiser.
Cancer Society - Groundhog Shots
[between 1948 and 1960?]
View of a 1939 Chevrolet Deluxe coupe automobile in (probably) Denver, Colorado.
Chevrolet Deluxe Coupe
[1948?]
Young women models pose in swimming suits at the Lakewood Pool, in Lakewood (Jefferson County), Colorado.
Lakewood swimming pool
[between 1950 and 1960?]
Women pose on exercise equipment in front of a wall mirror at the cub house in the Green Mountain Townhomes complex in Lakewood, Colorado. One woman sits on an exercise bike, another sits on the edge of a roller massager.
Green Mountain Townhouses
[1965?]
Men pose with a sheep by the Mayfair Shopping Center sign (in moderne letters) in Denver, Colorado; another sign reads: "Grand Champion Lamb, Free To Be Given To The Person Who Guesses The Nearest Dressed Weight. Register Your Guess at King Soopers Meat Dept."
Mayfair Shopping Center
[between 1951 and 1955?]
Three men look at a model of a proposed building in Denver, Colorado. The model encompasses several blocks of downtown Denver, one of the men has his hand on the top of the proposed building.
Colorado Savings building model
[between 1970 and 1975?]
An elderly Korean man squats near a large wagon wheel that leans against a stone and cement wall in South Korea. He wears linen knee length pants (paji) and a loose shirt with 3/4 length sleeves. He is balding and has a beard and long mustache. He smokes a long, bamboo and metal traditional Korean pipe.
Korean man
[between 1952 and 1953?]
View of the modernist style Bear Valley Branch of the Denver Public Library (Anderson, Barker, and Rinker Architects) at 5171 West Dartmouth Avenue in the Harvey Park South neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Features curved brick walls and arches, glass atriums, and spherical lamps.
Bear Valley Branch
1972
A woman applies lip gloss to a model posed in front of a mirror in probably Denver, Colorado. The model wears veil in her hair and scarf around her neck. Bottles, jars, and boxes of cosmetics sit on a table, labels read: "Tributa's Studios." Shows floral wallpaper and a sconce.
Cosmetic ad
[between 1960 and 1970?]
Three men sit on the log frame of a roof and strap bamboo cross bars to the frame as they prepare to thatch the roof in South Korea. The elderly men wear beards. The younger man wears a cap.
Preparing roof for thatch
[between 1952 and 1953?]
Interior view of the Bear Valley Branch of the Denver Public Library in the Harvey Park South neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; decor includes molded plastic chairs, curved window frames, a dracena plant, and card catalog cabinets.
Bear Valley Branch, Denver Public Library
An African American (Black) boy mails a letter addressed to "Santa Claus" in (probably) Denver, Colorado.
Christmas letter
[between 1940 and 1950?]
An elderly man stand and holds a bundle of bamboo thatch, used for thatch roofs, in South Korea. The man wears linen knee length pants (paji) and a loose shirt with 3/4 length sleeves. He is balding and has a beard and long mustache.
Man with bundle of thatch
[between 1952 and 1953?]
View of tornado damage to the Safeway grocery store in Julesburg (Sedgewick County), Colorado; shows a Ford sedan crushed under beams. People walk among debris; lettering reads: "Collins Furniture Store."
Julesburg tornado
June 6, 1947.
View of "Farmers Feed Mill," at 5870 Wadsworth Boulevard in Denver, Colorado; signs read "Feed Nutrena," and "Rolling Grinding Seed Cleaning Moravian Malting Barley." The building has a pitched monitor roof and a porch.
Farmers Feed Mill
[between 1940 and 1950?]
An elderly woman squats near a corn field with a large, flat basket of chili peppers in South Korea. She wears a linen cloth on her head and a loose fitting linen dress ((hanbock)
Chiles
[between 1952 and 1953?]
Two unidentified men look at a star chart in a book beside a telescope in an unidentified observatory, probably in Colorado. The telescope is mounted on a large hydraulic base and has a eye-piece. Lettering on a piece of equipment mounted on top of the telescope reads: "General Electric."
Unidentified observatory and telescope
[between 1965 and 1970]
A elderly Korean woman sits near a thatched stone house and prepares greens in South Korea. She wears a linen dress and her hair is pulled back. A large basket and a pile of unidentified greens are beside her.
Preparing greens
[between 1952 and 1953?]
Two unidentified men in suits pose near a Chevrolet El Camino in front of Premier Waterproofing Company located at 2311 South Inca Street in the Overland neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The brick building has a two story front glass and steel front. Lettering on the building reads: "Premier Waterproofing Co." Lettering on the truck reads: "Premier Waterproofing Co. 2311 So. Inca St. Denver, Colo. Phone: 936-3491."
Premier Waterproofing Co. 2311 So. Inca St.
[between 1970 and 1975?]
A Korean woman stands near a large wooden mortar filled with grain and grinds it with a stone pounding mallet with a wooden handle in South Korea. She wears a linen dress and her hair is pulled back in a bun. A flat winnowing basket and iron cooking pots are in the distance.
Grinding grain
[between 1952 and 1953?]
An elderly Korean woman kneels beside an outdoor hearth and stirs an iron pot in South Korea. The lid of the pot is beside the pot. The woman wears a loose fitting white linen traditional dress (hanbock). She wears her gray hair pulled back.
Korean woman
[between 1952 and 1953?]
United States Army soldiers in fatigues look at photos in (probably) Korea. One holds a rifle, he has his arm around the other, who holds a wallet; both wear helmets and hold cigarettes.
Pictures from home
[1952?]
An elderly man sits on the ground and binds bamboo thatch together for a roof in South Korea. The man wears linen knee length pants (paji) and a loose shirt with 3/4 length sleeves. He is balding and has a beard and long mustache. He smokes a long, bamboo and metal traditional Korean pipe.
Preparing roof thatch
[between 1952 and 1953?]
A young soldier in uniform walks down a street in the central Business District in Denver, Colorado. Shows a barber shop, a barber pole, and a sign for a drugstore. A woman leans against the wall of a hotel. She wears a blouse, skirt and high heels and carries a square plastic acrylic purse.
Soldier, Denver
[between 1955 and 1960?]
Green Mountain Townhouses
[1965?]
View of the clubhouse and swimming pool at the Green Mountain Townhouses in Lakewood, Colorado. The modern brick glass and steel building has an irregularly shaped pitch roof, wall to ceiling glass windows, balconies and external staircases. A woman sits in a chaise lounge near the pool. Shows outdoor tables, chairs and aluminum umbrellas.
Green Mountain Townhouses
[1965?]
A man and a woman pose in a bedroom of a show unit at the Green Mountain Townhouses in Lakewood, Colorado. The room has a Queen sized bed with mirrors behind the headboard. Chandeliers that hang from chains hang over bedside tables. The woman wears a dark dress, has her hair pulled back in chignon and sits on the bed. The man wears a suit and tie and stands in front of a glass door covered with curtains.
Green Mountain Townhouses
[1965?]
View of the kitchen area and breakfast bar in a unit at the Green Mountain Townhouses in Lakewood, Colorado. A glass patio door looks out on a brick patio with a table, an umbrella and chairs. A man sits at the breakfast bar on a stool. Women stand near the breakfast bar and a stove. Shows a refrigerator and cupboards. A valance is over the door.
Green Mountain Townhouses
[1965?]
Women in two piece bathing suits pose on or in a jacuzzi type mineral bath in the club house of the Green Mountain Townhouses in Lakewood (Jefferson County), Colorado. A reproduction of a classical style statue of a woman is beside the pool. A sign reads: "Hydro-Swirl Mineral Pool 3 to 5 Minutes in This Pool is Sufficient." The walls are tiled. Shows a trash container and an aluminum and plastic chair.
Green Mountain Townhouses
[1965?]
A woman stands in the kitchen of a model town home at the Green Mountain Townhouses in Lakewood, Colorado. She holds a tray of glasses and wears a white shirt, pink slacks, and an apron. Shows a built-in, wood grained, gas stove inset into a pink counter, an exhaust hood, a bronzed brown, built-in oven inset into a wooden enclosure and wood kitchen cabinets. Vases, artificial flowers and nic-nacs decorate the counters.
Green Mountain Townhouses
[1965?]
Women pose for a publicity shots near pop-art cubes in Denver, Colorado. A sign on the wall reads: "Columbia Savings," and signs on the cubes read "The Finanswer." The women wear mini-skirts and neckties.
Columbia booth at bridal fair
1970 February 21
A Goodwill delivery man holds kittens and a bag in Denver, Colorado; his bag lists items acceptable for donation. Letters on his truck read: "Rehabilitation and Employment of Handicapped Persons."
Goodwill driver and kittens
[between 1950 and 1960?]
View of the Tabor Theater entrance at 1014 16th (Sixteenth) Street in Denver, Colorado. Signs and marquee read: "Pioneer Theater of the West," "Invasion U.S.A.," "Prince of Pirates," "A Bomb Blasts in U.S. Cities," and "Highlander Blue and Gold Drill Team." Feltman & Curme and Leed's Shoe stores are to the sides.
Tabor Theater
[1952?]
View of a war bonds promotion in a Denver, Colorado theater lobby. A Japanese woman shows a man a brochure; signs read: "U.S. Bonds Here," "Defend America," and "On Sale Here - Tabor Luck by Caroline Bancroft."
United States Savings Bonds
[between 1952 and 1957?]
View of a woman model's feet in a pair of high heeled, open toed sandals with cork soles, advertising copy for Neusteters department stores in Colorado.
Neusteters shoe model
[between 1948 and 1955?]
A woman poses with a basket of apples and grapes at the York Food Mart at 2021 East Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. She wears a hat with feathers and a veil.
York Food Market, fruit basket
[between 1950 and 1960?]
Camp Fire Girls smile and pose in a tipi in Denver, Colorado.
Camp Fire Girls
[between 1948 and 1955?]

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Edward H. Boos

Flathead Indians
Indians of North America
Acclaimed Western Photographers
photography
Photographer
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.
Mat-a-lin, Isabelle, Louise, Mrs. La-tati, Agnes
[between 1905 and 1907?]
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.
Antoine Ninamee, Loma Charlemain
[between 19065 and 1907?]
Red Horn and Antoine
[between 1905 and 1907?]
A few trees are on the near shore of Flathead Lake in western Montana in a view during sunset. Several clouds line the sky above a ridge of mountains in the distance.
Sunset on Flathead Lake
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Chief Eagle, a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, poses wearing a warrior's headdress in front of a teepee on the reservation. He wears large, round earrings, numerous beaded necklaces hanging around his neck, an otter sash across his chest, and holds a long spear, possibly a coup-stick, also wrapped in fur.
Atoem Elem Wh Skil Em Me (Chief Eagle)
[1906]
Antoine Moiese ("Grizzly Door") and Michael, two Native American men on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, sit on a striped blanket playing cards. Both men wear wide-brimmed hats with single feathers stuck in their bands. Both also wear vests and beaded necklaces. The man on the right has several ermine fur tassles hanging from his vest. A small creek is in the background with several shrubs along its bank.
Antoine and Michael
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Two Native American women on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana pose on horseback in a field. Both have long hair in braids; each wears a dress adorned with beads. The bridles on the horses are similarly adorned with beadwork. The women sit on patterned, wool blankets that cover their wood-frame saddles. Mountains aren the distance.
Flathead beauties
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Flathead group portrait
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Francois Dead Horse, a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, poses in front of a teepee on the reservation. He wears a fur hat adorned with feathers, a buckskin shirt with beads sewn on it, and ermine fur tassles adorning it.
Francois Dead Horse
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Studio portrait of Grizzly Bear and Marie, two Native Americans (Salish) on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. They pose in front of a painted canvas drop. Grizzly Bear holds a ceremonial pipe and wears a woven fringed tunic and has his long hair in braids, he has a scarf tied around his neck. Marie wears a polka-dotted dress and also holds a ceremonial pipe. She has several necklaces with an eagle feather hanging around her neck. Her hair is in two thick braids.
Grizzley Bear and Marie Stere-ich-im
[between 1905 and 1907?]
A group of unidentified Native Americans sits playing cards inside a teepee on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. Numerous pillows and blankets are on the ground inside the teepee. A group of pots and containers is in the foreground.
Interior of teepee
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Joe Lamoose, a Native American on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, dances in front of a teepee on the reservation. He holds a pipe tomahawk adorned with fur and feathers and wears a long, feather headdress. Long, ermine fur tassles and beadwork adorn the sleeves of his buckskin shirt. He also wears beaded moccasins.
Joe Lamoose
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Joe Lamoose, a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, poses for an informal, half-length portrait. He wears a feather headdress and holds a pipe tomahawk in his hands. He wears several beaded necklaces, ermine fur tassles and beads on the sleeves of his shirt, and a beaded pouch on his belt.
Joe Lamoose
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Joe Vanderburg (also knwn as Yellow Rock), a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, dances in a field on the reservation. He wears a striped loincloth and several long, beaded necklaces. Strips of fur and bells are tied around his lower legs and his arms. Additional straps of fur are wrapped around his long braids. Several teepees are in the distance at the base of a ridge of mountains.
Joe Vanderburg (Yellow Rock)
[1907]
Loma Standing Bear, a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, poses for an informal, half-length portrait. He wears his long hair in braids with strips of fur wrapped around their ends. He also wears a breastplate, a belt with beadwork depicting horses, a beaded-flower shirt, and tassels on the sleeves and bottom of his shirt.
Loma Standing Bear
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Louis Charlemain, a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, poses for a formal, side-angle, bust portrait. He wears a fur roach on the top of his head. Strips of fur are wrapped around his long braids. He has an earring in his left ear and wears several beaded necklaces. His vest has beaded flowers decorating it. Charlemain also has markings under his eyes, possibly tattoos or paint. He is also known as Louie Molman.
Louis Charlemain
[between 1905 and 1907?]

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Donald Kemp

photography
Acclaimed Western Photographers
mining history
Gilpin County
A.D. Breed, Eben Smith, Wm. Bryant
[between 1935 and 1950?]
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.
Echo Lake 1945
[1945?]
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.
Long Lake 1955
[1955?]
Pine trees stand on a hillside in the foreground in This view looking north toward a ridge of mountains in the distance from Berthoud Pass on the border of Clear Creek and Grand counties in Colorado. Small patches of snow are on the mountains in the distance. Cumulus clouds form a thunderhead anvil in the distance.
Range View, North from Berthoud Pass
[between 1935 and 1950?]
An unidentified man stands in water up to his thighs fishing in Trappers Lake in the Flat Tops Wilderness in Garfield County, Colorado. He is partially blocked by a shrub and marshy grass. A large rock cliff tops the ridge of mountains in the distance on the far shore of the lake. Tall pine trees also stand on the shore of the lake in the background. Blades of marshy grass protrude into the foreground.
Trappers Lake
[between 1935 and 1950?]
Rugged mountains stand in the distance in This view of Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park in Larimer County, Colorado. Tall pine trees stand on the far shore of the lake.
Bear Lake, Estes Park 1946
[1946?]
A large rock and tree branches stand in the foreground on the shore of Lake Isabelle in Boulder County, Colorado. Several smaller rocks also lie in the foreground. A ridge of jagged mountains with patches of snow on them is in the distance on the far shore of the lake.
Lake Isabell [sic] 1948
[1948?]
Two pine trees stand among large rocks on the near shore of Diamond Lake in Boulder County in This view looking toward Arapaho Peak in the distance on the border of Boulder and Grand counties in Colorado. Small patches of snow are on Arapaho Peak.
Diamond Lake - Looking toward Arapaho Peak
[between 1935 and 1950?]
The remains of a buffalo skull lie on the ground in the Flat Tops Wilderness north of Glenwood Springs on the border of Garfield and Rio Blanco counties in Colorado.
Buffalo Skull
[between 1935 and 1950?]
Two unidentified women sit on rocks in the left foreground on the near shore of St. Mary's Lake looking toward St. Mary's Glacier in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Tall trees stand on the shore of the lake in the right midground and near where the two women sit.
St. Mary's Glacier & Lake 1941
[1941?]
Gilfillan, John A.
[1939?]
John A. (Jack) Gilfillan, John H. Kemp (father of the photographer) and J. B. Rowley sit on a log railing in front of a log cabin in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. The three men each helped found the town in the late 1890s. All three wear hats. Gilfillan and Rowley hold newspapers in their hands, and Kemp has a cigarette in his right hand.
Gilfillan, Kemp & Rowley
[1939?]
A group of three unidentified people is in the left foreground in the Mammoth Basin west of Apex in Gilpin County, Colorado. One person sits alone and the other two are farther away, one sitting on a rock, the other standing. In the distance, the rocky ridge of James Peak has small patches of snow on it. James Peak stands where Gilpin, Grand and Clear Creek Counties converge in Colorado.
Timberline Mammoth Basin 1943
[between 1940 and 1945?]
A large pine tree, possibly a Bristlecone Pine, stands in the foreground with its branches growing toward one side near Rollins Pass in Gilpin County, Colorado. Additional pine trees stand in the background along the hill. Photographer titled the image "Spirit o' the Storm."
Timberline "Spirit of the Storm" (tree) 1930's
[between 1935 and 1950?]
A set of wagon wheels sits half submerged in the water on the edge of Lost Lake west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. A portion of the nearer wheel is missing. Pieces of wood float near the set of wheels.
Wagon Wheels at Lost Lake
[between 1935 and 1950?]
Patches of snow remain on Arapaho Peak during the summer in This distant view from the head of Gamble Gulch in Gilpin County, Colorado. Arapaho Peak is on the border of Boulder and Grand Counties. Cumulus and cirrus clouds fill the sky.
Arapahoe Peak 1941
[1941?]
Silver Lake stands in the foreground in Boulder County, Colorado, with a ridge of mountains in the distance. Tall pine trees stand on the far shore of the lake. Patches of snow are on the distant peaks. Large clouds are in the sky.
Timberline Silver Lake 1939
[1939?]
Patches of snow remain on Arapaho Peak during the summer in This distant view from the head of Gamble Gulch in Gilpin County, Colorado. Arapaho Peak is on the border of Boulder and Grand Counties. Cumulus and cirrus clouds fill the sky.
Arapahoe Peak 1941
[1941?]

The Photo Collection Named After a Dog

photography
Denver
Colorado
women's suffrage
politics
activism
"General" Rosalie Jones giving the marching order 2-16-1913 [Suffrage]
Alman G. Hark 6-25-11 [Inventions]
Passing the Torch August 11, 1915: A women's suffrage activist passes a torch from a boat to another woman.
Photo shows California women delegates to the Democratic convention still energetic and able to parade and cheer for their choice after two weeks of listening to speeches and balloting in the hottest of New York city weather.
Mariolive Zavislan Beauty and the beast again step from fairyland. This time they are Miss Mariolive Zavislan and her five-year old Palomino, "Stardust 2," from Penrose. Mariolive has been chosen by the Fremont County Saddle Club to represent
Mrs. Ballington Booth, addressing the conference [Suffrage]
Suffrage delegates bound for Copenhagen [from the New York Herald Syndicate] [Suffrage]
C. M. Hubbard Pikes Peak Races 1925 [Pikes Peak Race]
"Glory Holes for Trout mark the course of Willow Creek above the ghost town of Tincup, Colorado, in Gunnison National Forest. An angler tries for the big ones that lurk where a mining dredge went down to bedrock in search of placer gold.
Men with Log Hauling Apparatus
The "Old Hanging Tree" - Valverde
suggests that the tree was never actually used for lynching anyone.
Heading west on Colfax Avenue at Grant Street, March 19, 1952
"Morey Bernstein, center, hypnotizes Ruth Simmons, a Colorado housewife, and tape records her memories of a previous lifetime as Bridey Murphy,
Here is "Miss Radio of 1928"
of the Radio World's Fair.... Underwood and Underwood, Photo.
John Lemm of Switzerland. [Boxing]
Paper costumes at City Park playground. Joe Burke, Burton Burke, May F. Burke, Zelda Kapland, Norma Stockham. August 1, 1943 [City Park]
Seated at the head of a mess table in Camp Fechner at Big Meadows, Virginia, one of the five Civilian Conservation Corps camps he visited on August 12, President Roosevelt partook of the camp food, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Gambling Bust: L to R Roger Smith,security and custodian police department; Captain John O'Donnell; John H. Winchell, clerk, District Court; Dave Rosner, Deputy District Attorney. [gambling]
Four of the patronesses and backers of the newly formed International Beauty Academy, which will open "beauty schools" thruout America and England... Lillian Russell, one-time reigning "American Beauty," now Mrs. Alexander P Moore.

Spectacular Book Covers

Western History/Genealogy
graphic impact
illustration
Indian Horrors, or Massacres by the Red Men by Henry Davenport Northrop
Rhymes of a Rancher bt E. A. L. Griffin
Crest of the Continent by Ernest Ingersoll
The Sunny Side of the Street, by Marshall P. Wilder
The Book of Cowboys by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California by Thomas D. Murphy
Adventures Among the Indians by W. H. G. Kingston
Tommy's First Speaker by Tommy Himself
The Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by Ellsworth L. Kolb
The Romance of the Colorado River by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
Forty Liars and Other Lies by Bill Nye
The Story of the American Indian, by Elbridge S. Brooks
Zezula; or Pioneer Days in the Smoky Water Country by Jessamine Slaughter Burgum
Official Route Book of the Yellowstone Highway in Wyoming and Colorado
The Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West
Songs of the Rockies by Charles Edwin Hewes
The Beef Bonanza, or How to Get Rich on the Plains, by James Sanks Brisbin
Highways and Byways of The Pacific Coast written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson
Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert Service
A Canyon Voyage: the narrative of the second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado river from Wyoming, and the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, artist, and assistant topographer of the expedition...
Women of Red River by William J. Healy

Curtis Park: Denver's Oldest Neighborhood

Denver
Curtis Park
neighborhood histories
View of a three story brick commercial building at 28th (Twenty eighth) Street and Welton Street in the Five Points (or Curtis Park) Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features include string courses and an entry canopy.
28th and Welton Street, Denver
[between 1980 and 1990?]
Hispanic-American men, women, and children leave after Easter Mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 2760 Larimer Street in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The church building has a bell tower, stained glass windows, decorative lintels, and an arched entryway.
After Easter Mass centennial year of Sacred Heart Catholic Church
1979
View of a two-story brick house at 2550 Arapahoe Street in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The building has a covered entryway and arched front wall with windows.
Architectural field survey #21 roll 4
[1976]
A boy and a girl (in sunglasses) pose on bicycles at the corner of 27th (Twenty Seventh) and Stout Streets in the Curtis Park Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. A stone apartment building has corbeled brick, dentils, a corner turret, an arched window, and carved stone ornaments.
Curtis Park, Denver
1985
William Allen West, author and historic preservation advocate, poses on the porch of his home in the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District, in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. He is balding, has a beard and mustache and wears a sweater.
William Allen West
2000
African American (Black) and white firemen pose by a fire truck and Station No. 3 of the Denver Fire Department at 2363 Glenarm Place in the Curtis Park (Five Points) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The men wear uniforms and caps. The station has brick arches, keystones, and a tile roof.
Only colored fire company in Denver
1931
This item (1 of 123) is from the Eugene Sternberg Architectural Records (C MSS WH1003). This drawing shows a rendering of the Curtis Park Community Center in Curtis Park, Denver, Colorado and was commissioned by the City of Denver in 1967.
Curtis Park Community Center
1967 March 3
2521 Champa, Historic Curtis Park District
1984 March
2521 Champa, Historic Curtis Park District
1984 March
2814 Champa St. Owned by George Apodaca until 1978 and known as "The Indian House" locally
1978
2825 Curtis, Curtis Park Historic District
1984 May
View of an abandoned apartment building at 816 25th Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The three-story building has boarded up arched windows and decorative brick work.
Architectural field survey #21 roll B
[1976]
Orahood House 2903 Champa St.
2008
View of a three story brick house at 2418 Stout Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The house has eclectic architectural elements that include arched windows with voussoirs, bargeboard gables, corbiestep sides, plaster relief details, and a dormer. A sign in the yard reads: "Offered by Marsh & Associates, 628-5474, For Rent."
2418 Stout St., Denver
1984, March
Anfenger House 2900 Champa
2008
View of a house at 2655 Stout Street in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two-story house has a covered porch with a decorative wall.
Architectural field survey #21 roll 3
[1976]
View of 2357 and 2361 Curtis Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a pair of matching Queen Anne-style single family residences. The one-story brick houses have a pedimented front gable window bay, scroll-sawn bargeboards, molded plaster rosettes, and decorative carved lintels.
2357 and 2361 Curtis Street
[between 1960 and 1970?]
View of a two story stone row house at 2700 to 2714 Stout Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The dilapidated house has High Victorian Gothic elements that include a corner turret, finials and a mansard roof. Shows missing doors and windows. A fence surrounds the property.
2700 Stout St., Denver
1983, July
View of Congregation Emanuel at 2400 Curtis Street (at 24th - twenty fourth) in the Curtis Park Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features include a square tower, blind arches, glass brick, a crown ornament, arched windows and a gabled roof and dormers.
Congregation Emanuel, Denver
1985 December
View of 2754 Stout Street in the Curtis Park neighborhood (Five Points) in Denver, Colorado; shows a brick house with corbeling and brackets; a man works on the covered porch.
Stout Street - Face Block Project 1981-1982
1981 December
View of a brick commercial building at the corner of 25th (twenty fifth) and Curtis Street, in the Curtis Park Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features include a portico, parapet, dark brick coursing and corbels Stone lintel reads: "Ideal;" entry awning reads: "Eric's Pub."
2500 Curtis Street, Denver
1989 April
2625 California St. Miller House
1971
Colorado National Guard, mustered to combat the labor strike of the Western Federation of Miners, march on Curtis Street in front of the brick Armory building at 2565 Curtis, Denver, Colorado. A crowd, including two Black children, stand and watch.
Infantry leaves armory
1903
View of 2613-2619 California Street in the Five Points neighborhood (Curtis Park) of Denver, Colorado. Constructed in 1887, the two-story Italianate duplex has a rusticated stone foundation, brick walls, and a mansard roof with elaborate bracketed wooden jig-sawn friezes and cornices, topped with pediment shaped windows. Both duplexes have bays and porches.The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District.
2619 California Five Points (Curtis Park)
1978
View of the State Armory (1889; William Quayle) at 2565 Curtis Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a two-story, brick, Romanesque Revival influenced, symmetrical building with semi-circular arched windows, belt courses and an inset entrance in a three-story tower. The brick walls have been stuccoed. The former armory is part of the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District and now houses Scientific Site Inc.
State Armory Building
[between 1980 and 1990?]
2501 California St. Gospel Mission Church, Elder Frank Mason (1977?- )
1978
View of a two story house designed and built by Orlando Scoby on 2743 Curtis Street in the Curtis Park Historic Districts in Denver, Colorado. The brick house has a porch with decorative wood trim, a pitched roof, and iron fence. A flagstone carriage stoop is in front of the house.
Denver - residences
[between 1890 and 1900]
German Methodist Episcopal Church 2501 California St.
1990
View of a house at 2752 Champa Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two-story house has a covered porch.
House on Champa Street
1982 February
View of a house at 2445 California Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two-story house has decorative eaves.
House on California Street
1981
2663 Champa St. Walters House, Five Points (Curtis Park)
1978
Ford House 2627 Champa
2008
View of the George W. Kramer home at 2445 California Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features a mansard roof, terrace, and covered porch. Women pose with a boy and a dog.
Residence of Geo. W. Kramer 2445 California St. Denver, Colo
1888 March 8
View of 2816 Curtis Street (ca. 1880) in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The wooden one-story vernacular cottage has a cross-gabled roof and a small porch at the side. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District.
2816 Curtis St.
2008
Ford House 2627 Champa
2008
View of the Scobey House (c. 1882) at 2826 Curtis Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. This one-and-one-half-story brick residence shows characteristics of Second Empire and Late Victorian styles. Features include wood trim, iron cresting, and a mansard-roof extension. William Allen West, the owner, is standing next to the porch decorated with scroll-sawn brackets.
William Allen West standing in front of the Scobey House
1979
View of a house at 2601 Champa Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The brick and stone Second Empire style house has a mansard roof, belt course, covered porch, and octagonal towers.
Five Points Denver F. F. King real estate 2601 Champa Street
[between 1920 and 1930?]
View of 2825 Curtis Street in the Curtis Park neighborhood (Five Points) in Denver, Colorado; shows a frame house with shingle imbrication and a covered porch and balcony.
Curtis Street - Face Block Project 1981-1982
1982 February
Gertrude Apartments
2008
View of 2831 Curtis Street in the Curtis Park neighborhood (Five Points) in Denver, Colorado; shows a brick house with lintels. Men set forms for a new porch foundation.
Curtis Street - Face Block Project 1981-1982
1981 August
View of 2525 Champa Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District. The two-story brick Queen Anne house (c. 1885) has a full porch with a pediment above the entry, a bay with a pediment, cornice and fishscale shingles. There is an oriel window on the second floor and an oculus above the porch pediment.
House, 2525 Champa
2008
View of the Mannat House (c. 1881) at 2905 Curtis Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. This two-story Italianate residence is part of the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District. Built for Irving Mannat, a grocer, this brick house has a symmetrical facade, truncated hipped roof, bracketed cornice, lintels, a covered porch, a balustrade and bays.
Mannat House
1980
View of a house at 2521 Champa Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The one-story brick house has a half turret and decorative window arch.
House on Champa Street
1980 August
View of a house at 2915 Champa Street in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two-story brick house has a covered porch, decorative shutters, and window trim.
Architectural field survey #37 roll 1
[1976]

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ George Beam

Acclaimed Western Photographers
scenery
railroads
photography
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.
Pajarito Park
[between 1900 and 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.
Bandelier National Monument
[between 1910 and 1925]
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.
Bandelier National Monument
[between 1910 and 1925]
View of an enlarged entrance into a natural cave in soft volcanic rock, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico; occupied by ancestral Pueblo Indians between the 13th (thirteenth) and 16th (sixteenth) century.
Bandelier National Monument
[between 1910 and 1925]
Volcanic tuff cliffs with natural caves enlarged to create living and ceremonial spaces by ancestral Pueblo Indians, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.
Bandelier National Monument
[between 1910 and 1925]
Eroded windows and bird nest holes show in the soft volcanic rock of a verticle tuff cliffside, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.
Bandelier National Monument
[between 1910 and 1925]
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.
Bandelier National Monument
[between 1910 and 1925]
View of a photographer with tripod and camera, and his subjects, Native American men, women and children, in Taos, New Mexico.
Taos, N M
[between 1900 and 1910?]
View of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, during the San Geronimo Day festival; shows a crowd of spectators including Native Americans (Taos Pueblo) and whites. Many sit on adobe pueblo dwellings.
Taos San Geronimo fiesta
[between 1915 and 1920?]
View of fields, snow, and mountains, possibly in Colorado.
Upper Arkansas Valley, Colo.
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Taos Pueblo Indians and tourists form a circle around dancers with a United States flag in the Taos Plaza, Taos, New Mexico. Native Americans (Taos Pueblo) are wrapped in blankets, the sightseers wear hats. Onlookers stand on porches or portals of enclosing buildings. A sign reads: "Post Card Views, Indian Curios, Kodak Finishing."
Taos, N.M.
[between 1910 and 1920?]
Snowdrifts and ice cover a stream in (probably) Colorado or Utah, with pine forest in the background.
Snow in streambed
[between 1922 and 1935?]
Native American (Anasazi) Swallow's Nest House, at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, consists of stone walls built into sandstone cliffs.
Swallow's Nest House, Mesa Verde Natl Pk
[between 1910 and 1920?]
View of the tunnel at Shoshone along the course of the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad in Glenwood Canyon (Garfield County), Colorado.
W. @ E. Shoshone tunnel
[between 1920 and 1930]
View of Native American (Taos Pueblo) men at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, wearing moccasins, breechcloths, and body paint, during a festival. They carry branches; adobe pueblo dwellings and white spectators are in the background.
Taos Pueblo fiesta races dancers
[between 1920 and 1930?]
View of a waterfall, possibly Cascade Falls, near Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado.
Waterfall near Ouray, Colo.
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad tracks pass between fields and hills, in (probably) Colorado.
Track along mountain range
[between 1922 and 1935?]
Group shot of possibly President Harding and cabinet members on their 1923 tour of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The driver stands beside the long touring automobile filled with men, parked on at a lookout over eroded canyon cliffs. Emblem on door has a bear and reads: Y. P. T. Co. No. 143.
Yellowstone
[between 1916 and 1930]
View of the San Geronimo festival at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; shows Native American (Taos Pueblo) men wearing body paint and holding branches. White men and women watch from the side.
Taos Pueblo San Geronimo Day
[between 1910 and 1920?]
View of a sheep shearing operation in (probably) Colorado or Utah; shows men passing a bundle of wool, a tractor connected to belts and pulleys, sheds, penned sheep, and bags of wool. Mountains are in the background.
Tractor powered sheep shearing (No. Fork Valley)
[between 1922 and 1935?]
Gutted trout are arranged on burlap with a ruler; stools and a table are in the background.
Trout fish J. B. Gorton
[between 1922 and 1935?]
Grand Canyon of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, shows fast moving water deep in the riverbed carved in the volcanic rock of canyon walls.
Yellowstone
[between 1916 and 1930]
Forest edges meadows, probably in Colorado or Utah; pine trees are in the foreground.
Trees & meadow
[between 1922 and 1935?]
Trees, rocks, and fenced fields with mountains in the background, in (probably) Custer County, Colorado.
Trees & rocks in foreground mountain valley & mtns beyond
[between 1922 and 1935?]
View of Trout Lake, in (probably) San Miguel County, Colorado; shows boats and surrounding mountain peaks.
Trout Lake
[between 1922 and 1935?]
Sandstone cliffs of Ruby Canyon, in Utah or Colorado, edge the Colorado River. Pinnacles comprise the "Three Sisters" formation.
Three Sisters - Ruby Canyon
[between 1922 and 1930?]
View along the side of rustic 1904 Old Faithful Inn over a steaming Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Yellowstone National Park
[between 1916 and 1930]
E. B. Allison operates Western Pacific track inspection motor car No. 26, in Feather River Canyon, California.
W. P. track inspection, motor car #26
1909?
View southwest over Old Faithful Geyser to Old Faithful Inn, with steep gabled roof and a large rooftop observation platform with six flagpoles, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Tourists climb the terraces around the steaming geyser.
Yellowstone
[between 1916 and 1930]
View of people riding horses on the valley floor between towering cliffs at Zion National Park, Utah.
Zion - group on horseback
[between 1910 and 1930]
Tourists walk across the Royal Gorge Suspension Bridge, Fremont County, Colorado, over 1000 feet above the Arkansas River. American flags decorate the tall towers for the dedication of the 1260 foot long and 18 feet wide bridge. Built by the Royal Gorge Bridge and Amusement Company in six months, dedicated on December 6, 1929.
Suspension Bridge, Royal Gorge
1929 December 5
A man sits in a touring automobile on Cody Road, along Sylvan Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming; Top Notch Peak shows in distance.
Yellowstone
[between 1916 and 1930]
A sign marks Grotto Gesyer, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming; steam rises from the geyserite deposited on the top of trees.
Yellowstone
[between 1916 and 1930]
Night view of the illumintated archway on Champa Street and Fourteenth, for the Knights Templar 32nd Triennial Conclave, Denver, Colorado. "Electric sunset and Mt. (Mount) of the Holy Cross. Over 60,000 candle power required to illuminate This electric painting. Rays of the sun and lighting effects on the mountain peaks are obtained from twelve search lights."
Southwest on Champa Street, at 14th Street, during Knights Templar 32nd Triennial Conclave
1913 August 12 - 15
Upper Falls of the Yellowstone River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, shows the raging waterfall with a wooden stairway on a rocky cliff leading to a vantage point.
Yellowstone
[between 1916 and 1930]
View of the Otto Mears toll road in Uncompahgre Gorge, Ouray County, Colorado; shows a man on a horse, power poles, and cliffs.
Uncompahgre Canyon: early view of Mear's toll road along side of canon wall
1905 or 1906
View along the Arkansas River and the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad tracks, with the Hanging Bridge in distance, Royal Gorge, Fremont County, Colorado. Wooden Canon City water supply pipeline shows tunneling in and along the steep granite wall along river.
Western approach to Hanging Bridge Royal Gorge, D. R. G. W.
[between 1920 and 1928]
View of Tower Arch, a sandstone rock formation in Arches National Park, Utah.
Tower Arch, Arches National Park - Utah
[between 1920 and 1930?]
View across Royal Gorge, bisecting Fremont Peak, of the Suspension Bridge, Fremont County, Colorado, over 1000 feet above the Arkansas River. Built by the Royal Gorge Bridge and Amusement Company in six months, dedicated on December 6, 1929.
Suspension Bridge, Royal Gorge
1929
View of men in coveralls (with goggles) and a biplane with letters: "U.S. Navy A-6391," as part of Oil Shale Day in Nada, Garfield County, Colorado.
US Navy DH4-M1, serial no. A-6391, and Douglas DT-2 Torpedo plane serial no. A-6597, and landing field at Nada, Colorado, east of Rifle, on hand for Oil Shale Day
July 18, 1925
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks pass through Eagle County, Colorado, by mile marker: "D307."
West at MP 307 w. of Minturn, Colo
[between 1922 and 1930?]
View of the Broadmoor Hotel and Lake in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; the Italianate resort is reflected in the water.
Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colo.
[between 1918 and 1928]
Tourists come and go from the Soda Spring Pavilion, Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The open air pavilion features decorative woodwork with sunburts, rusticated stone foundation, roof cresting, four sided dome with flag pole and fish scale shingles. Signs read: "Manitou Springs," and "Developing and Finishing Films and Supplies."
Manitou, Soda Springs
[between 1898 and 1912]
View of the Arkansas River Valley, Mount Princeton, and the Collegiate Range, Chaffee County, Colorado.
Mt. Princeton & Arkansas Valley above Buena Vista.
[between 1920 and 1930?]
View of Bright Angel Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona; shows Plateau Point, Indian Gardens, and the Tonto Trail.
Grand Canyon
[between 1920 and 1930]
Trees and mountains are reflected in De Weese Reservoir, Custer County, Colorado; wide fields and the Sangre De Cristo Range are in the background.
Deweese Reservoir
[between 1922 and 1935?]
Rocks, trees, and wide fields edge De Weese Reservoir in Custer County, Colorado; the Sangre De Cristo Range is in the distance.
Deweese Reservoir
[between 1922 and 1935?]
View of a hotel in Kanab, Kane County, Utah; shows a man on horseback with an axe, men on the porch or balcony of the frame structure, and lettering: "Hotel Highway W. S. Rust, Proprietor."
Kanab, Utah - Hotel highway
[between 1920 and 1930]
Portrait of Native American (Taos Pueblo) boys by a ladder and adobe walls at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; they play with a puppy.
Taos Pueblo children
[between 1910 and 1920?]
Chamberlin Observatory, University of Denver campus, Denver, Colorado. Robert S. Roeschlaub, architect, designed the rusticated stone building.
Chamberlin Observatory
[between 1898 and 1910?]
A man, wearing a suit and tie, stands by a wide petrified tree stump. Pine trees dot an embankment in the background.
Man w/ petrified stump
between 1922 and 1935?]
Soldier Summit, Utah, is a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad terminal/switch yard covered in snow. Locomotives, freight and passenger cars, and cabooses are on the tracks, and men work picking ice from the switches. Passengers emerge at the depot; employee houses dot the hill to the side.
Soldier Summit - terminal
[between 1922 and 1929?]
Self portrait of George Lytle Beam examining a glass plate. He wears a lab apron, striped bow tie, white shirt with wing-tip collar and his pince-nez eyeglasses.
George L. Beam, self portrait in lab apron examining plate
1893?
View of a Rio Grande Motor Way passenger bus. Women and a man pose by the 1935 White brand vehicle; outfits include print dresses and straw hats. Pin striping reads: "Los Angeles - Salt Lake - Grand Junction - Pueblo - Denver - Omaha - Kansas City - Chicago - New York 154;" possibly City Park Lake is in the background.
RG Motorway bus 154 Denver (1935 White) 5 women & 1 man in front
1935?
A timber ladder provides access into a kiva structure under volcanic tuff cliffs, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. The reconstructed kiva is built up with rock and has a rectangular entrance framed with timber. A natural cave enlarged by ancestral Pueblo Indians shows in background.
Bandelier National Monument
[between 1910 and 1925]
Men and women pose on the observation platform of the "Glenwood Canon" Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad passenger coach at Burnham Shops, Denver, Colorado. Ladies in bathing suits and conductor's hats pose with lanterns.
D&RGW open platform observation "Glenwood Canon" at Burnham Yards for "Panoramic" publicity photos.
1927?
Belden mine complex and Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks flank the Eagle River, at Gilman (Eagle County), Colorado; mining buildings dot surrounding cliffs.
Eagle River Canyon Belden Mine complex view looking east or south.
[between 1922 and 1930?]
View of wide fields and distant hills in (probably) Colorado or Utah; cholla cactus and scrub cedar are in the foreground. Clouds include thunderheads, cumulus, nimbus, and cirrus formations.
Desert country, Utah?
[between 1922 and 1935?]
Interior view of Native American (Anasazi) Cliff Palace, at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado; shows men in ties and hats posing by ruins of a round tower.
Mesa Verde Cliff Palace (after excavation)
[between 1910 and 1920?]
View of the Million Dollar Highway (State Highway 550), Ouray or San Juan County, Colorado; shows road grade, stone guardrails, a car, and a man.
Million $ Hiwy
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks on the Dotsero Cutoff follow the Colorado River in Eagle County, Colorado.
Unfinished Cutoff
[between 1932 and 1934?]
Women in high heels, dresses, skirts and hats pose on furniture inside a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad dining lounge car, refurbished from a Western Pacific dining car, parked possibly in the Denver, Colorado railroad yards. Some of the women play cards. Interior design is Art Deco with arm chairs, sofas, tables, lamps, smoking stands and ornate metal wall partitions. Upholstery features floral and geometric motifs. Possibly taken during the Summer of 1939.
Interior view of diner lounge
Summer, 1939?
View of the eroded sandstone spires, pinnacles and fins known as hoodoos, Paunsaugunt Plateau, Bryce Canyon National Park (formerly Utah National Park) Utah.
Bryce National Park, Utah
[between 1910 and 1930]
View (from inside) of snow, a mountain, and a tracklayer vehicle, probably in Colorado. Interior furnishings include a ledge seat, pillows, and a flower patterned valance.
View through window mountains, snowcat, sled (Colo. ski area?)
[1930?]
The Pine Crest Baseball team poses in front of the Palmer Lake Bowling Alleys, El Paso County, Colorado. They wear uniforms (caps, shoes with cleats, baseball gloves.) The catcher with his mitt sits front and center; players next to him have wooden bats. Possibly the coach or owner of the bowling alley stands in center back row. He wears a white shirt and striped tie.
Pine Crest Baseball team
[between 1910 and 1920]
View of Pikes Peak from Mount Manitou, Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado.
Pikes Peak from Mount Manitou (vert.) (used in D&RG adv.)
[between 1920 and 1930?]
The Pauline Chapel at the Hotel Broadmoor, El Paso County, Colorado, is a mission-style building with cupola, tile roof, ornate-carved stone door frame, and niche-sculpture of Saint Paul.
Pauline Chapel, Broadmoor
[between 1922 and 1935?]
People crowd the Royal Gorge Bridge for its dedication in Fremont County, Colorado. A woman in a fur coat is by automobiles; United States flags and bunting decorate a dais.
Royal Gorge dedication and opening of Royal Gorge Bridge
1929 December 8 or 9
Photo of a photograph of a builder's view of Denver and Rio Grande Railroad locomotive number one; sign on the cab reads: "Montezuma."
D&RG 1, NG 2-4-0, at builder's plant 1871
[between 1900 and 1910?]
View of Royal Gorge Bridge construction in Fremont County, Colorado; shows steel pylons atop granite cliffs, with cable between.
Royal Gorge bridge towers under construction - close view - view shows construction cables.
1929
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad construction in Ruby Canyon, (probably) Utah consists of men laying track over a concrete bridge, using a rail-adapted crane. Sandstone cliffs are in the background.
Rail laying M. P. 686 east of bridge
August, 1927
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad passenger train "The Scenic Limited" heads west in a blizzard at Soldier Summit, Wasatch County,Utah.
Passenger train in snow Soldier Summit Utah
1924
Men pose by the Lady Belle mine entrance south of Eagle, Eagle County, Colorado; one man shovels ore into a canvas bag.
The new Eagle Mining District, Colorado
[between 1900 and 1920?]
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.
Girl fishing
[ca.1935?]
View of Howard (Fremont County), Colorado; shows the Stout School (District 13), later the Howard Volunteer Fire Department, snow, and Twin Sisters Peaks.
Stout School
[between 1922 and 1935?]
View of the Colorado State Capitol building, Denver, Colorado; shows people standing by the Civic Center reflecting pool and colonnade, trees, and streetcars of the Denver Tramway Company.
Denver - Colfax Avenue and Broadway, looking east from north end of civic Center
1929?
A man stands on a projecting rock overlooking the canyonlands in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
Mesa Verde country - man on cliff overlooking canyon
[1929]

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

Denver
Colorado State Capitol
photography
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."
Looking north west from Capitol Bldg.
[between 1890 and 1910]
Rooftop view of downtown Denver, Colorado. Buildings include the Arapahoe County Courthouse, Majestic Building, and the YMCA Building.
Looking from Capitol N. N. W. over Denver to the mountains, Colo.
[between 1900 and 1910?]
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."
Birdseye of Denver
[between 1890 and 1900?]
A northwestward, bird's-eye view of downtown Denver, Colorado; County Courthouse is the predominant structure at left-center of image (built 1883 at 16th & Tremont); Brown Palace Hotel at far right (opened 1892 at 17th & Broadway).
Birdseye of Denver
[between 1892 and 1901]
Aerial view of downtown Denver, Colorado and the Capitol Life Insurance Company building at 16th (Sixteenth) Avenue and Grant Street. Buildings include the Bank Western Building, Security Life Insurance Building, and the Hilton Hotel.
Capitol Life Insurance Company Building and downtown Denver
[between 1963 and 1970?]
Aerial view of the North Capitol Hill neighborhood and downtown Denver, Colorado. Buildings include the Capitol Life Insurance Company Building, Farmers Union Building, Petroleum Building, Continental Oil Company Building, and the Federal Courthouse.
Capitol Life Insurance Company Building and downtown Denver Colorado
[between 1963 and 1970?]
Rooftop view of 16th (Sixteenth) Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. Street cars and horse-drawn wagons are on the street. Buildings include the Arapahoe County Courthouse, Kittredge Building, and Equitable Building.
Denver
[between 1890 and 1891]
View of Denver, Colorado, shows downtown buildings including the Arapahoe County Courthouse. Clouds top front range mountains; signs read: "I.A. (Mrs. Ida Alkire) Lehman Specialty Shop (or The Toggler Shop, 1538 California)", "Overland Cars," and "YMCA."
Denver, Colo.
1909
Right side of panorama view taken from Colorado State Capitol Building, Denver, Colorado; includes part of Capitol roof and turret, Sherman and Lincoln streets, corner of Y.M.C.A., and Trinity Church steeple. Signs read: "Hotel Metropole."
Denver, Colo.
[1911]
Right center of panorama view taken from Colorado State Capitol Building, Denver, Colorado; includes downtown business district with. Signs read: "Plymouth Hotel," "Tours," " Overland Auto Co.," "The Byron Motor Car Co.," "F. C. Ayres, Fireproof Grain Elevator," The Front Range with snow covered Longs Peak is in the distance.
Denver, Colo.
[1911]
Denver, Colo.
[1911]
View of the Denver City and County Building at 1437 Bannock Street, in downtown Denver, Colorado; classic columns and entablature flank a pedimented entrance. A cupola / clock tower tops the curved facade; buildings, Front Range mountains and Mount Evans are in the distance.
Denver City and County Building
1981 November
Denver, Colo.
[1911]
Rooftop view of downtown Denver, Colorado. Buildings include the Arapahoe County Courthouse, Orpheum Theater, Daniels and Fisher Tower, Kittredge Building, and the Majestic Building. Signs read: "A. T. Wilson," "Automobiles Repairs Storage," and "Plymouth Hotel."
Downtown Denver
[between 1910 and 1920]
Rooftop view of downtown Denver, Colorado. Buildings include the Arapahoe County Courthouse, Orpheum Theater, Daniels and Fisher Tower, Kittredge Building, and the Majestic Building. Signs read: "The Stanley Motor Carriage Co.," "Orpheum Modern Vaudeville," "Kelly Springfield Tires," "Boss Rubber Co.," "Plymouth Hotel," and "Auto Equipment Co."
Downtown Denver
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Panoramic view of Denver, Colorado looking west; landmarks include the Arapahoe County Courthouse, Fire Engine House Number One, Brown Palace Hotel, the Majestic Building, and Hotel Metropole. Signs read: "Hair Dressing," "The "M" Company of America," "Palace Stables," "Geo. Sell's Bakery," "A. T. Wilson. Automobiles. Repairs. Storage.," "Denver Clothes Pressing Co. $3.00 For # Months.," and "Drugs, Prescriptions, Cigars At Corner."
Panorama of downtown Denver; folds out into three part image
[between 1900 and 1905]
A view of Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado. Shows the City and County Building, the Denver Public Library, the Voorhies Memorial and the Greek Amphitheater. The Denver skyline and the foothills are in the background.
Civic Center Park from State Capitol building
[between 1930 and 1940?]
A view of Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado from the State Capitol Building. Shows the Civil War Memorial from behind, the City and County Building, landscaping, and a canon.
Civic Center Park from State Capitol building
[between 1930 and 1940?]
View of Civic Center in Denver, Colorado. The Greek Theater and Colonnade of Civic Benefactors and the Voorhies Memorial are on either side of the grassy area bisected by walkways. The Denver Public Library is in the park.
Civic Center
between 1923 and 1932
View west from dome of State Capitol Building over Civic Center, Denver, Colorado, shows the cruciform plan located between West Fourteenth (14th) Avenue and West Colfax. The Denver Public Library and the United States Mint show prominently among buildings that later would be raised for Civic Center exspansion. Signs on Cleveland Place read: "The Manualo," "The Baldwin Piano Co." and "Thurney Auto Co."
Civic Center West Colfax and 14th Avenue run thru, buildings gone from Civic Center and Bates Triangle
1913
View west from dome of State Capitol Building over Civic Center, Denver, Colorado, shows the cruciform plan located between West Fourteenth Avenue and West Colfax. Landmarks include: Pioneer Monument, the Andrew Carnegie funded 1909 Denver Public Library, United States Mint, Arapahoe County Courthouse and the Daniels and Fisher Tower. Signs read: "Boss Rubber Co.," "Goodyear Tire & Rubber," "The Manualo," "The Baldwin Piano Co." and "Thurney Auto Co." Snowcovered Front Range shows in background.
Civic Center
[1913]
View of Civic Center and Denver, Colorado; shows the Denver Tramway Company power house, Denver Fire Department's Engine House Number One, the Imperial Apartments, the Araphahoe County Courthouse, the Kittredge Building, and the Majestic Building.
Denver Civic Center
[between 1900 and 1910?]