Things of the past ... Nov. 18

• Bingel Brewery in Del Norte

• Ship Rock

• Gold dredge near Craig

• Chief Ignacio 

• [Unidentified Office] Cripple Creek

• Pagosa Hot Springs

• Men at Fort Morgan depot

• Loveland bank

• downtown Grand Junction 

• stage station near Boulder Falls

• Town Jail, Mancos

• The Cosmopolitan

• Central City Teller House Bar

• Ski Broadmoor 

Thing of the past ...
Bingel Brewery, Del Norte, Colo.
Date: [1900]
Men stand in a line in front of the Bingel Brewery in Del Norte, Colorado, in Rio Grande County. Several have bicycles; some of them sit in carriages or wagons. The brewery is a multi-story, barn-shaped building with a cupola. A long tube leads from the main building to a smaller building.
Digital Version Created From
San Luis Valley Resource Center, Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado 81101, January 7, 1976.
Denver Public Library Special Collections

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Navajo men
Credit: Denver Public Library Special Collections
Creator: Pennington, William M.
Date :[1904-1932]
Native American (Navajo) men pose on horseback near Ship Rock in New Mexico.Photocopy of the photograph as the cover for the February 1938 edition of The Desert Magazine accompanies original print. Portion of stamp is crossed out and "Pennington" is written above stamp. Stamped on back of print: "Copyright by Ellen Todd, Inc. Tales in Pictures (Trade Mark) This picture may not be syndicated, rented, loaned, nor utilized for advertising purposes."; Title supplied. Written on back of print: "Ind- Navajo Biog- men- Unidentified", "Pennington", and "Illustration only".

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Gold dredge
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: [1911-1920]
Two men stand on a gold dredge, probably near Craig, Colorado; slag in foreground.
Original Material Found in Collection
Louis Charles McClure papers
Denver Public Library Special Collections

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Chief Ignacio and Family
Date: 1890
Photographer: unknown
Man and two women stand in front of tipi with blanket over door. Dog is sitting on the ground in front, and horse is tied in back. Photo identified on back as "U78 - Chief Ignacio and family. S.U. Res. 1890". Number 78 is written (reversed) on print. Research indicates that Ignacio [1828-1913] was Chief of the Weeminuche tribe of the Southern Utes located in present-day Colorado north of the San Juan River.
Location: Southern Ute Reservation
Ignacio (Ute Chief), 1828-1913
Carl Mathews Collection, Pikes Peak Library District

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[Unidentified Office]
Date: 1900
Photographer: unknown
Men sit in unidentified office with pot-bellied stove in center. Calendar on wall reads December 1900. One man sits at large roll-top desk at left. Cashier's cage is at right. Colorado State 1900 Business Directory and Cripple Creek and Victor 1900 City Directory sit on table in the center of the photo and a wrapped package is seen below with label from "A. Mayer & Son Advertising".
Location: Cripple Creek (Colo.)
Pikes Peak Library District, Carl Mathews Collection

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Pagosa Hot Springs
Creator(s): Desmond, D. C.
Men, women, and children gather around the edge of a large hot spring pool at Pagosa Springs (Archuleta County), Colorado. Men stand near commercial buildings in the distance. Signs on businesses read: "J. N. Johnson, General Merchandise," and "Pagosa Springs."
Date: [between 1890 and 1895?]
History Colorado

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Men at Fort Morgan depot
Date: [1914]
Lieutenant Biglow, Lieutenant Benidict, Mr. L. C. Paddock, Wm. Waddell, and Dr. Woods pose near the Fort Morgan railroad depot. A sign reads: "American Telephone and Telegraph and Associated Companies Long Distance Telephone Bell System Western Union Telegraph & Cable Office".
Digital Version Created From
Courtesy of Lee L. Scott.
Postcard has been printed backwards. Postcard stamp printed on back. Stamped on back of postcard: "Fort Morgan, Colo. July 8 PM 1914". Title supplied. Two cent U. S. stamp on back of postcard. Typed on back of post card: "Showing Lieutenant Biglow Lieutenant Benidict Mr L C Paddock, Boulder Wm Waddell, Aguilar and Dr Woods, Forbes at the Fort Morgan depot leaving for Sterling." and "The Adjutant General State House Denver Colo.

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Loveland bank
Title-Alternative
History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection, Book III, no. 34
Creator(s): Buckwalter, Harry H.
A group of men pose on the sidewalk in front of the Bank of Loveland, established in 1882, Loveland (Larimer County), Colorado. One man holds a bicycle.
Date: [between 1900 and 1910?]
History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection

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By the time this photo of a busy downtown Grand Junction was taken - sometime between 1919 and 1926 - the city was already the commercial hub of the Western Slope, drawing produce from the surrounding farmland and hundreds of tourists who came to see Colorado National Monument.

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W. E. Galverts lunch house & stage station near Boulder Falls, Boulder Canon
Creator: Sturtevant, J. Bevier (Joseph Bevier), 1851-1910.
Date: [1875-1890?]
View of a stage stop by North Boulder Creek, Boulder County, Colorado; shows men, horses, a covered coach, a frame restaurant and stable. A woman is on the porch; a wagon carries a crate.
Title inked on original and reproduced in photoprint; typed paper on back reads: "The Half-Way House, just above Boulder Falls in Boulder Canon, about 10 miles from the town of Boulder. As the caption on the face of the photo indicates, the establishment catered to stage passengers and other wayfarers and had stable facilities for the stage teams, which were often changed at this point. The buildings have long since been razed, and only those who knew the spot would be able to point out where they once stood. The date of the photograph is not known. The photographer, J. B. Sturtevant, of Boulder, was a picturesque character who wore his hair long, and often dressed in fringed buckskins. He claimed to be an intimate of Buffalo Bill, and called himself "Rocky Mountain Joe."
Denver Public Library Special Collections

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Town Jail, Mancos, Colo.
Creator: Noel, Thomas J. (Thomas Jacob)
Date: 1991.
Jail located in the Mancos town park on Main Street, Mancos, Colo. The one-and-one-half-story two-cell jail house sits on the east side of Main Street and was constructed in 1895 of two-by-six boards.
Original Material Found in Collection
Tom Noel photograph collection, notebook Montezuma County.
Digital Version Created From Auraria Library

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The Cosmopolitan
Creator: Byers, Joseph E.
Date: [1905-1915]
The Cosmopolitan, Telluride, Colorado, a saloon and gambling club. Men in suits and hats are seated at gaming tables with stacks of poker chips, a roulette wheel table is in left foreground, and a bartender stands behind long wooden bar. Marshal Kenneth Angus Maclean leans with his back against the bar; a Black man kneels next to brass foot rail and polished brass spittoons. Bar area features a large mirror with deer heads above, decorative spindles and shelves with liquor bottles, glasses and cash register on back counter.
Inked on white border of photoprint: Telluride, Colorado. Penciled on back of photoprint: "1910-15?". Stamp on back of photoprint: Homer E. Reid, Telluride Colo. Title and photographer's signature hand-lettered on bottom of original negative.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

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In the Central City Teller House Bar, Montie Montana, Frank Johns, John Justin.
Date: 1954 July
Donor: Steve Matthews; gift; July 14, 1999.
Cowboy actor and rodeo star, Montie Montana, Frank Johns, and John Justin Jr., members of the Roundup Riders of the Rockies from right to left, sit on their horses in the interior of the Teller House Bar in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. The men are dressed in western clothes and pose with their cowboy hats in the air. Two of the men wear vests. Paintings are on the walls of the bar.
Handwritten on verso of photographic print: "1954 Montie M., Frank Johns, John Justin. Jr., Teller House Bar."; Label on photographic print reads "238."; Title and identification from printed inventory titled: "Roundup Riders of the Rockies, pictorial history," prepared by Steve Matthews.
Denver Public Library Special Collections

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Ski Broadmoor was the largest and the longest-operating ski area in Colorado Springs. It was opened as part of the Broadmoor Resort in 1959, with one double chair lift, one tow line, and state-of-the-art snowmaking machines. ... In 1986, The Broadmoor sold the ski area to the city of Colorado Springs. It was built at the bottom of Cheyenne Mountain in 1959 and was one of the first ski areas to have snow-making and to host night skiing. The ski area remained a part of the Broadmoor Hotel until it was sold to the City of Colorado Springs in 1986. Eventually, the city sold it off to Vail resorts after only two years of ownership and in 1991, Ski Broadmoor was shut down for good because the lack of snowfall due to its low elevation. Ski Broadmoor had one double chair lift, a rope tow, and a small lodge at the base. Their longest run was only three quarters of a mile and 80% of the terrain was rated either beginner or intermediate.