Saturday, July 1, 2023

Denver Fire, Pueblo flood, Ridgway Roundhouse, more ...


Thing of the past ...
Denver Fire Department at Smith Lake
Creator: Lindvall, Oscar E.
Date: circa 1940
Photograph from a 2007 book written by Nancy L. Widmann and Kathleen Roach for Historic Denver about the Washington Park neighborhood in. Denver, CO: Historic Denver, 2007.
Donor: Historic Denver
The Denver Fire Department conducts lifesaving exercises off the south shore of Smith Lake. Three men stand on dock while one man in diving 
suit jumps in lake. Boxes behind them are labeled No. 1 Denver Fire Dept.
Original Material Found in Collection Historic Denver Collection
Digital Version Created From Source material owned by Historic Denver
Item Owned By: Historic Denver.
 

Thing of the past ...
The Kokomo school
Date:1886
Students at Kokomo, in Summit County, Colorado, pose on boardwalk with a frame, pilastered building behind them. They wear ribbons, checkered or plaid fabrics, and wide collars. Older girls and the teacher wear bodices, overdresses with pleats or flounces, boutonnieres, and carry wide brimmed hats.
Copy photonegative is masked with rubylith tape. Formerly F22894. Title penciled on back of photoprint. At end of title: July 21, 1886.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.



 
Thing of the past ...
Nederland Town Hall
Creator: Noel, Thomas J. (Thomas Jacob)
Date: 1988
The facade of the Nederland Town Hall at 45 West 1st (First) Street in Nederland (Boulder County), Colorado. The two story building has a pedimented false front with wooden siding and a diamond window in the center of the second story. Signs on the building read: "Town Hall," "Nederland - Colorado" and "1874." There is a flag pole in front of the building, and a man sits on the ground and reads a book. Flowers are along the front of the building. Next to the building is a small white building with a sign that reads: "Town Marshall" Nederland was settled by the Dutch.
Original Material Found in Collection: Tom Noel photograph collection.; Tom Noel photograph collection, notebook Boulder County.
Digital Version Created From: Source: loan, Tom Noel, 2010.
Item Owned By: Auraria Library



 
Thing of the past ...
Ames Hotel, early 1880's
Creator: Milligan, Edward William, 1869-
Date: [1860-1880?]
Donor: Bailey, Stephen "L.L. Nunn; a Memoir." Ithaca, N. Y.:1933
Exterior view of the Ames Hotel and other businesses in the camp of Ames, below the Gold King mine, San Miguel County, Colorado, shows a scene busy with people in front of the wood frame false fronts and in a horse-drawn wagon. A man in front of the hotel wears a long white apron, a women next to him holds a baby wearing a long white dress. "Ames Hotel" sign hangs above entry; a parapet gable rises above roofline to make room for two second-story sash windows.
Copy photoprint and copy photonegative is of an 1880s orginal. Title printed back of copy photoprint of an 1880s orginal. Denver Public Library Special Collections.



 
Thing of the past ...
Allenspark citizens at Clara Belle mine while it was still in operation
Date: [1896-1900]
A group of Allenspark citizens pose around an ore cart on a cable at Clara Belle mine, eight miles north of Ward, in Boulder County, Colorado. The group includes young boys and one small girl, women in long skirts and bonnets, and men in white shirts and vests, some with bow ties and suspenders. A few of the men hold chunks of ore. A dog lays on a wooden platform between the legs of a seated man. The town boomed from 1896 to about 1901, when the veins started to peter out, and is also known as Allenpark or Allens Park.
Digital Version Created From: WHC Caroline Bancroft Collection, transferred 9/89
Notes: Photoprint is heavily retouched. Title hand-written on back of photoprint.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.



 
Thing of the past ...
Castlewood Dam
History Colorado, Buckwalter collection ; no. 922
Creator(s): Buckwalter, Harry H.
Men stand on the top of Castlewood Dam on Cherry Creek in Douglas County, Colorado.
Date: [prior to 1933, when the dam was swept away]
Notes: History Colorado.; Condition: emulsion pitted on glass negative.; Title handwritten on negative envelope.
Is Part Of: History Colorado, Buckwalter collection



 
Thing of the past ...
Tailor shop belonging to Nicklos Christman
Date: [1870-1875?]
Group portrait of men, women, and boys in Denver, Colorado; they pose by a Larimer Street house-storefront identified as the Nicklos Christman tailor shop.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
Notes: Title penciled on verso with: "2000 block on Larimer, taken in the early seventies."


 
Thing of the past ...
Historic Strauss cabin east of Fort Collins
Creator: Jessen, Kenneth.
Date: May, 1980
The Strauss cabin, home of an early Poudre River Valley homesteader, Robert Strauss. The L-shaped, stone and hewn-log house has gables, chimneys, and rail fence.
Photographer's byline from printed label on back of photoprint. Title hand-written on back of photoprint.
Denver Public Library Special Collections



 
Thing of the past ...
Old White Triangle Block, Union Ave. and Main St. 4:30 am June fourth
Creator: Anderson, Theodore
Date: 1921 June 4
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.
Photographic print included in: Arkansas River flood, June 1921 / report of Arthur Ridgway for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
Notes: Attribution stamped on photographic print.
Denver Public Library Special Collections. 
 

Thing of the past ...
R.G.S. roundhouse @ Ridgway
Creator: Trout, George A.
Date: 1951 September 1
Donor: George A. Trout
The Rio Grande Southern railroad roundhouse and turntable in Ridgway (Ouray County), Colorado. Railroad employees stand nearby. Shows a railroad handcar and axles.
Photographers information stamped on verso of print with: "negative no. 1026."; Title inked on verso of photographic print.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
 

Thing of the past ...
Hubbard Mountain Home, Colorado
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: [1910-1920?]
Covered walkway leading to "Ten-Sleep Agency," (Boy Scout ranch established by Ralph Hubbard) Black Forest area (El Paso County) Colorado; shows a man and girls in canvas chairs, and a saddle and lantern hanging from the rafters.
Glass plate has severe oxidation. Signature hand-lettered on glass plate; "45" penciled on glass plate; title from hand-written information on back of photoprint.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
 





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