Ute Pass, North Pole, Loveland Fire, Amache, Camp Hale and more

 

Thing of the past ...

Ute pass & Rainbow Falls

History Colorado, Buckwalter collection ; no. 890

Creator: Buckwalter, Harry H.

Lower Ute Pass, in El Paso County, Colorado; also shows Twin Creek, Rainbow Falls, the Bath of Venus, and a sign: "Grand Caverns."

Date: 1900, October 23

 

 

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The Depot, Woodland Park, C. M. Ry

Creator: Rose & Hopkins.

Date: [1890-1894]

The Colorado Midland railway depot at Woodland Park, Colorado; track and wooden platform at left, station at right with signage indicating dining room and Wells Fargo Express.

Format of Original Material 1 copy photonegative ; 9 x 11 cm (3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.); 1 photoprint : albumen ; 18 x 24 cm (7 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.); 1 photoprint : albumen ; 19 x 23 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.)

Original Material Found in Collection: Rose and Hopkins photographs. Album 4.; Rose and Hopkins photographs. Album 5.

Type of Material: Albumen prints; Film negatives

Geographic Area: Woodland Park (Colo.)

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Men at work on printing presses

Creator(s): Buckwalter, Harry H.

Shows employees of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado at work on the printing presses. A printed newspaper rolls through the printing press. An article on the newspaper reads: "Sunday Magazine Section, Feb. 1902 Revival of the Death Penalties".

Date: 1902

Title-Alternative: History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection, Book V , no. 100.

 

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Pemberton - Colorado

Date: [1895?]

A carriage carrying three men is parked in front of a wooden commercial building in Pemberton, Colorado in either Douglas County or Teller County. Five men surround the wagon. The door to the shop is open. Signs: "Headquarters for Wetherald's Transfer and Stage Line. Hay Feed & Grain," "Time Table Between Pemberton & South Platte Leaves here 12 noon between here and Woodland Park Leaves Here 8:30 a.m.," "Stage for Woodland Park 8:30 a. m.," and "Restaurant. Pemberton Restaurant & Lunch Room."

Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinet card ; 12 x 19 cm (4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)

Digital Version Created From Bought from W. B. Milliken, Jr.

Type of Material: Cabinet photographs; Film negatives.

Notes: Photoprint has faded and yellowed, and the card to which it is attached has three holes in it. Title hand-written on back of photoprint.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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The Ninomiya family in their barracks room at the Amache Center

Creator: Parker, Tom, photographer.

Date: 1942 December 9

Interior view of the Ninomiya family's barracks at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, southeastern Colorado; shows Tosh Ninomiya at a folding card table reading a newspaper with a pipe in his mouth, Mrs. Ninomiya across the table from him, and another son standing, putting on his jacket. The room includes bunk beds, shelves, a table and stool made from scrap lumber. Floral curtains are at the pane window, and over a dressing table and shelves, striped bedspreads. A decorative shade hangs above a bare bulb on cord from ceiling. A mirror on the dressing table relfects a Japanese mask and the son's hand on his jacket.

Format of Original Material:1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.)

Digital Version Created From War Relocation Authority.

Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic prints; Black & white photographs

Notes: Photoprint's bottom left corner is torn off. Title and photographer printed on back of photoprint; additional information: "War Relocation Authority, Midland Savings Bldg., Denver, Colo. No: E-418, Date 12/9/42; Photo Location: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado; Data: (title) The mother's handiwork in preparing drapes, fashioning furniture out of scrap material, plus the boys ingenuity in preparing double deck bunks have made this bare brck floored barracks room a fairly comfortable duration home. Tosh Ninomiya, left, is charged with the responsibility of documenting the history of the Amache Center."

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

 

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First law office at Cripple Creek

Date: 1890-91

Charles H. Adams'(attorney at law) office, Cripple Creek, Colorado with a group of men standing in doorway of canvas tent with wooden frame; men include: George Carr (on horseback), Ed Bell (former marshall of Florissant, standing at far left), Preacher Babb (second from left), Bill Spell (fourth from left, standing next to doorway with deputy sheriff's badge and tilted hat), George Carr (man on horseback), Attorney Charles Adams (standing in doorway), and Edward Morton De LaVergne (seated in doorway); "Charles H. Adams attorney at law" sign affixed to front of tent and "Justice of the" sign affixed to side of wooden frame of tent.

Title from printed label on original halftone; photograph of a photograph reproduced in weekly newspaper "Great Divide" (volume 10, number 4, page 89) printed in December, 1893.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Holiday Inn Magazine ... for traveling Americans. Front cover with Colorado North Pole Santa]

Names: Margolies, John, collector

Created / Published: December 1964.

Headings

- Santa Claus (Fictitious character)

- Holiday Inns, Inc.--1960-1970

- Amusement parks--1960-1970

- Houses--1960-1970

Ephemera--1960-1970.

Magazine covers--1960-1970.

Photomechanical prints--Color--1960-1970.

Genre

Magazine covers--1960-1970

Ephemera--1960-1970

Photomechanical prints--Color--1960-1970

Notes

- Title devised by Library staff.

- Cover of December edition of magazine which features Santa and group of people in front of Santa's house at the Colorado North Pole amusement park.

- Gift; John Margolies; 2008-2010; (DLC/PP-2008:151)

- Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2008:151-4, container 100, F. 1

Medium: 1 photograph : color photomechanical ; sheet 28 x 22 cm.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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Antlers fire

Creator: Buckwalter, Harry H.

A view of the burned remains of the Antlers hotel in Colorado Springs (El Paso county), Colorado. The hotel was destroyed in a fire on October 1, 1898. Shows a large section of burned rubble, spectators on the surrounding streets and local businesses in the background.

Date: 1898 October 1

Notes: "Hotels - Antlers - Colo. Spgs., Fire" handwritten on back of photoprint.; Accession number: 90.156.1279; History Colorado.; Condition: Emulsion is chipped.; Title and "C - Colo. Spgs. - Hotels" handwritten on negative envelope.

History Colorado, Buckwalter collection ; no. 709

 

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City Hall & Fire Station, Goldfield, Colo.

Creator: Noel, Thomas J. (Thomas Jacob)

Date: 2005.

The Goldfield City Hall and Fire Station located on Victor Avenue and 9th Street, Goldfield, Colo. Built in 1899, the two-story, simple Italianate style structure has been transferred to a new foundation with reinforced bell tower and roof.

Format of Original Material: 1 slide : color

Original Material Found in Collection: Tom Noel collection ; notebook, Teller County; Tom Noel photograph collection. notebook ; Teller County.

Digital Version Created From: Source: Loan, Tom Noel, 2014.

Auraria Library.

 

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Ski training: lesson in ski techniques at Camp Hale, Colorado

Creator: Julian, Mac

Date: [1943-1944]

Still from the Warner Brothers film: "Mountain Fighters." Fifteen Tenth Mountain Division skitroopers stand at the bottom of a small hill watching as a skier practices what appears to be the side step. According to the caption This is a lesson in herring bone, side step and traverse. Other skiers are arrive at the top of the hill from a trail visible on the right side of the image. Another soldier practices at the top of the hill, while two others look towards the man on the slope. Taken during training at Camp Hale, Colorado.

Format of Original Material: 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 28 x 33 cm (11 x 13 1/2 in.)

Original Material Found in Collection: 10th Mountain Division Resource Center Collection

Digital Version Created From: Photograph Album 36; Album placed in TMD169 William J. Bourke Papers

Type of Material: Film stills; Photographic prints

Notes: "A lesson in herring bone, side step and traverse" written on the front border of the print. " A lesson in herring bone, side step and traverse -- Skier on slop [sic] is on way back," written in a different hand in ink on reverse. For physical location, see Photograph Album 36, William J. Bourke, Jr. Mac Julian Photographer embossed in lower left corner of print. Title supplied by cataloger. Vintage photographic print.

10th Mountain Division Resource Center, Denver Public Library.

 

 

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Denver Public Library Special Collections, [call number]

Title Colo. City Vol. Hose Co. team

Colorado City Volunteer Hose Company team

Date: September 1901

Colorado City Hose Team pose in front of the diagonal batten door outside the brick fire station, South Twenty-sixth and Cucharas streets, El Paso County, Colorado. The men stand wearing dark underwear shirts and shorts with arms crossed and their brass hose nozzle proudly on display in front of them.

Format of Original Material: 1 photoprint ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.)

Type of Material: Photographic prints

Geographic Area: Colorado City (Colo.)

Notes: Stamp on back of photoprint: "Lester L. Williams, M. D., Colorado Springs, Colo."; Title hand-written on back photoprint; additional information: "In front of fire station on S. 26th St. at Cucharas.

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 Stapleton Airport

Date: 1947-1948

Stapleton Airport, Denver, Colorado, United Airlines passenger jet "Mainliner 300 NC37508" is on the tarmac. People stand behind the airplane; the terminal and control tower are in the background. Antennae and wind instruments top the roof.

Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.)

Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic prints

Notes: Formerly F25963. Formerly X-11000117; Photoprint has crop marks penciled in margin. Printed in margin: "Please credit United Air Lines."; Title typed on negative sleeve; penciled on back of print: "1742."

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Colorado State Patroller David Copley (cq) shields himself from the blowing snow as he investigates a rollover accident involving three cars just north of Monument Hill in Douglas County Colorado on northbound Interstate 25 Tuesday morning April 5, 2005. No one was seriously hurt in the accident. (Dennis Schroeder / Rocky Mountain News)

Thing of the past ...

A corner, St. Vincent's Orphanage printery

Date:[1909-1925?]

Boys work in the printery of Mount St. Vincent's Home at 4159 Lowell Boulevard in the Berkeley neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a printing machine that reads: "Chandler & Price Co., Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A." and a statue of St. Joseph on a shelf on the wall.

Format of Original Material: 1 photographic print ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.)

Digital Version Created From: Max 1980.

Type of Material Photographic prints

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Fire, the boys are trying to get their clothes on.

Date: [1915-1925]

The fireman, just out of their beds in their long johns, jump into their fire pants, upstairs in the firehouse, Loveland, Colorado. One man makes his way down the fire pole.

Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in.)

Notes: Inked on front of photoprint: 29; C-178 lettered on original. Title typed on label on photoprint; additional information: "Bartholf Hose team was the first in Loveland. This was after the change was made to motor driven fire wagons. Loveland never had a horse drawn fire wagon."

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

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Littleton school interior

Date: [1900-1910]

Interior view of a small one room schoolhouse in Littleton, Colorado, shows young students reading at their wooden desks; a few look out the sunlit windows. The blackboard on the back wall has illustrations of a Thanksgiving turkey dinner, a squirrel on top of a pumpkin and dancing corn cobs, titled: The Moonlight Corn frolic. A cast iron stove is in front of the rows of desks and a lantern and paper loop chains hang from the ceiling.

Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative : black-and-white ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in.)

Digital Version Created From: Littleton Historical Society.

Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic prints; Black & white photographs.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Santa Claus on Denver's Civic Center

Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957

Date: [1929]

Night view of Greek Theater and Colonnade of Civic Benefactors, West Fourteenth (14th) and Acoma Street, Civic Center, Denver, Colorado; Christmas decorations on the Colonnade include: spotlit Santa Claus and his reindeer top arch; "Merry Christmas" illuminated across frieze, evergreen garland wrapped columns, large wreath with bow centered bordered by evergreen garland strung out to sides of archway, laced with lights; snow on sides of theater steps; streetlights and interior of colonnade illuminated.

Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative : black-and-white ; 9 x 11 cm (3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); 1 photonegative : nitrate ; 19 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.); 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 19 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

Notes: Copy negative made from vintage photographic print. Title and signature hand-lettered on nitrate negative.

 

 

 

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Harry S. Maddox, station agent, Palmer Lake, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D. &.R. G.) , note Express Signage on corner, 1899. Maddox was later agent Monument, and had other local positions with D & R.G.

 

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Loveland street scene showing photographic studio in background.

History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection, Book V, no. 23

Creator: Buckwalter, Harry H.

A group of men sit on a bench in Loveland (Larimer County), Colorado. Business signs read: "Lunch Room", "Red Cross Employment Office," "Laundry", and "Photographs." Horses are hitched to a post.

Date: [between 1890 and 1910?]

 

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Ute Pass

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

A dirt road with a split log guardrail on Ute Pass, Teller County, Colorado. Shows Twin Creek, waterfalls, and a man in a horse-drawn buggy.

Date: [between 1880 and 1890?]

Notes: "3006 - Dup." etched on negative.; "Miller" and "11" inked on negative.; Accession number: 86.200.1906; Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: Corner missing, taped, chipped.; Corner missing.; Formerly Jackson 3006A.; Handwritten on envelope: "Ute Pass?"; Title and "03006" inked on negative.; R7201020372

Physical Description: 1 negative : glass ; 26 x 21 cm. (10 x 8 in.)

Is Part Of: History Colorado, William Henry Jackson Collection.

Keeping track of Thompson towns, pioneer passes, Berthoud, and Loveland

A man drives a mule drawn wagon on a dirt road through Berthoud Pass (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Photo by Harry H. Buckwalter.

 Miles apart and muddled lines

By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com

It seems to me, that having both a Colorado mountain pass, and up-and-coming city or town named for you — can be the kiss of obscurity, or at least confusion.

For example, most folks know that Loveland and Berthoud did something with the railroads — but maybe one in ten could tell you which railroad, and precisely what it was they did. 

Berthoud, the small, but growing berg in Larimer County was named for Capt. Edward I. Berthoud, chief civil engineer for the Colorado Central Railroad when the line reached here. 

Capt. Edward I. Berthoud

 
"Berthoud was also the discoverer of Berthoud Pass," according to research done in the 1930s for the Colorado Writers' Project by the Works Progress Administration, and rail records, and other sources.

The settlement earlier was known as "Little Thompson," with a post office opening in the spring of 1875. Capt. Berthoud, during the Civil War he served as a lieutenant and captain in the 2nd Colorado Infantry and 2nd Colorado Cavalry. Berthoud became one of Golden's most prominent citizens, serving as Speaker of the Colorado Territorial Legislature in 1866, County Surveyor from 1875 to 1878, and Golden Mayor in 1890. He surveyed and supervised construction of many railroad lines in Colorado and the West, primarily for the Colorado Central Railroad. Berthoud was an early supporter, faculty member, and board member of the Colorado School of Mines, and an amateur scholar of history, botany, and ornithology.

W.A.H. Loveland

 Loveland, of course, was named after W.A.H. Loveland, president of the Colorado Central Railroad, (he was Berthoud's boss) and prominent in state affairs. The townsite was platted on the farm of David Barnes — later known as the "father of Loveland" — and who declined to have the town named for him. Loveland's name also graces 11,992-feet Loveland Pass and the nearby ski area on the Continental Divide.

"The earliest settlement in the Big Thompson Valley underwent many name changes but was eventually called Namaqua," writes Kenneth Jesson in "Thompson Valley Tales, (1984)." The story of Namaqua, of course, began with the arrival of mountain man Mariano Medina, who first arrived in the area with french trappers, Nicholas and Antoine Janis,  along with Spanish  Jose' de Mirabel.

"The location Namaqua was immediately west of Namaqua Park on County Road 19E by the Big Thompson River. Jose' de Mirabel settled on this site. A brief report of the new settlement appeared in the March 1860, edition of the Rocky Mountain News. The town was said to be named in honor of "Joe Merival."  Somehow the name of Mirabal was transformed into Miraval in the article, and later, the settlement became known as Miraville," says Jessen.

"Miraville was not mentioned again after 1860 because the community had simply changed names," notes Jessen. "Many of the mountain men moved on, and some sttled in Colona (now called La Porte.) Mariano Medina remained along with the Jose' de Mirabal and Tim Goodale. Mariano recruited several Mexican famlies from the Taos, New Mexico, area to live on the ranch and help with the chores. The small settlement then became "Marianne's Crossing." It later was called "Big Thompson Station," with a stage stop, which was later combined with Washburn's Crossing, and later saw the development of the community known as St. Louis. Most of St. Louis moved to Loveland when the Colorado Central rails came through and located on David Barnes wheat farm. 

Some effort to name the new town "Barnesville" was circumvented by David Barnes who chose "Loveland " instead, after his friend William Austin Hamilton Loveland, the president of Colorado Central Railroad and one of the founders of Golden. He also ran for Governor of Colorado but was defeated by Pitkin and eventually became owner of the Rocky Mountain News.

Colorado Central Depot in Loveland, built in 1877, shows the rectangular side gable brick building with a water tank and the Loveland Elevator Company building in background. Photo by Nathaniel H. Talbot, 1894.

Bears, trains, depots, Opera House, falls, and towns

 

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Souvenir Falls, Cascade Canon

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

Souvenir Falls in Cascade Canon (El Paso County), Colorado. A man and a girl pose at the top.

Date: [between 1889 and 1900?]

Notes: Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Formerly Jackson 2497.; Title inked on glass negative with: "6086.

History Colorado.

 

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Poncho, Colo.

Date: [1882 reproduction, 1950-1960?]

Reproduction shows lithographic bird's eye view of Poncha Springs, Chaffee County, Colorado, with tree lined streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings, and trains. Printed under image: "Published by J. J. Stoner, Madison, Wis. Beck & Pauli, lithographers, Milwaukee, Wis;" "Bird's Eye View of Poncho, Colo. 1882. 6900 ft above sea level;" "1. Post Office, H. H. Fulton, Post-Master., 2. Poncho Herald, W. C. & F. M. Tomkins, Editor and Prop's., 3. D. & R. G. R. R. Depot, 4. Poncho Hot Springs Hotel and Bath Rooms, 5. Meat Market, Wm. Appleby, Prop'r, A. School House, B. Free reading room, C. Presbyterian Church, D. American House, J. L. Royer, Prop'r, E. Poncho Spring House, H. A. Jackson, Prop'r, F. Restaurant, Mrs Maggie Flock, Proprietress."

Format of Original Material 1 copy photonegative ; 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint ; 13 x 24 cm (5 x 91/2 in.) on sheet 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.)

Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic prints

Title printed under original 1882 lithograph.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

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Dolores, Colo.

Date: [1890-1900]

Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado; shows a Rio Grande Southern Railroad train, schoolhouse, and wooden buildings on a main street.

Format of Original Material:1 photoprint on album page ; 10 x 12 cm (4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Original Material Found in Collection: C Photo Album 109. Colorado 1890s

Type of Material: Photographic print

Title hand written on album page.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

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Bearkeeper with bears

Creator: Rhoads, Harry Mellon, 1880 or 1881-1975

Date: [1910-1930?]

Donor: Morey Engle

A man in a cage with bears at the Denver Zoo, Denver, Colorado.

Format of Original Material 1 copy negative ; 13 x 10 cm (5 x 4 in.) Original Material Found in Collection: Harry M. Rhoads photograph collection.

Type of Material: Film negatives

Notes: Title hand-written on front of negative envelope. R7001894892

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

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Tabor Opera House, Denver

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

The Tabor Grand Opera House at 16th (Sixteenth) and Curtis Streets, Denver, Colorado. The Victorian Gothic style building has a tower, pointed arches, and contrasting trim. A sign reads: "Special Cloak Sale To-day!" A stone pediment above the doorway reads: "Grand Opera House." Street scene includes a gas light, utility poles, pedestrians and a horse-drawn wagon.

Date: [between 1881 and 1892]

Notes: Accession number: 86.200.6645; Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: Masked.; Formerly Jackson "137-CO"; Title and number "0137" on negative.

History Colorado.

 

 

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Pike's Peak Railroad depot, Manitou. 664

Date:[1891-1900?]

Exterior view looking southwest of Pike's Peak Railroad depot in Manitou Springs, Colorado; a two story shingle-style building with rusticated stone lower floor, a hipped cross-gabled roof, and metal capping at the roof ridges with upturned ends. The projecting entry gable in front and waiting area to the left have balustrades and lathe-turned columns. A sign above the entry reads: "Pikes Peak." Backed up to the entrance is a horse-drawn delivery wagon with lamps and ; painting on side: "Manitou Transfer." On the bed of the wagon are two initials (illegible) and the name: "Miller." A surrey with passengers is heading away from the camera; pedestrians are standing by it. Five houses are visible in the hills behind the depot.

Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative : black-and-white ; 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinet card ; 13 x 21 cm (5 x 8 in.)

Type of Material: Cabinet photographs; Film negatives

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

Photographer's stamp on mat: The W.E. Hook Wholesale View Co. Colorado Springs, Colo. "Hook Photo." printed on lower right of photoprint. Title printed on front of photoprint.

 

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Creator: Steven R. Nickerson

Voda watches comfortably as her babies, Koda and Nuka, roughhouse together. Voda, the momma bear and her newest cubs Koda and Nuka, 6 month old boy cubs born in November, 2004, Denver Zoo, Denver, Colo., play together in the warm summer like weather cavorting with each other, a big ball in the water and a leftover red bucket down in the corner of the exhibit.. The general reaction was delight and amazement to watch the animals swim in the water. The zoo is open for summer hours 9am-6pm--M-Su.

(Photo by STEVEN R NICKERSON / ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS)**Voda, Koda, Nuka(all from zoo p.r....the bears would not talk to me) **

Donated to the Denver Public Library by the Rocky Mountain News.

 

 

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Denver railroad offices

Creator:Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935

Date: 1917, March 13

Colonel D. C. Dodge and Austin McFarland stand near the Denver and Rio Grande Railway ticket counter in Denver, Colorado. D. C. Dodge holds a brochure titled "Denver Rio Grande Western Pacific." Other brochures and signs that read: "Southern Pacific Lines" and "Passenger Department" are nearby.

Format of Original Material:1 photonegative : glass ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.)

Type of Material: Glass negatives; Photographic prints

Title and "Col. D. C. Dodge- left Austin McFarland- right (see Post-Empire 3/16/47)" handwritten on back of print.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

 

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Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge locomotive, engine number 462, engine type 2-8-2

Creator: Richardson, Robert W.

Date: 1945

Three-quarter view of right side of engine, from front end; with caboose 0401. Photographed: Dolores, Colorado, October 10, 1945.

Colorado Restless Native Note: I think that is the old school in the background.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

Box car family, Film crew, Independence platform, More ...

 

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Family residing in boxcar

Creator: Lillybridge, Charles S., 1849-1935

Portrait of a man (railroad worker), woman, boys, a parrot, goats, and a Colorado & Southern Railroad outfit car in Denver, Colorado.

Date: [between 1904 and 1910?]

Notes: Condition: silvering at edges.; Formerly W-1806.; Inked on negative: "G-200164."; Penciled on back of photoprint: "Colorado & Southern Bridge & Building Department outfit car - living quarters for railroad workers and families."; Title penciled on negative sleeve.

Physical Description: 1 negative : glass ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 20 x 21 cm (8 x 10 in.)

Is Part Of: History Colorado, Lillybridge Collection.

 

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Central Fire Station, Cripple Creek

Date: [1905-1910]

Five firemen and two horses stand in front of Central Fire Station, 340 block of Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; partial view of fire station's brick exterior with a chain across the garage door entry; two firemen in uniform and hats lean on chain while horses named "Buck" and "Dutch" are behind chain; men identified left to right: W. J. Rainger, David W. Kingston (chief), Arthur F. Robinson, Alonzo L. Bates (captain), and C. Hyunn; three firemen sit in chairs and three additional men wearing suits standing aside, brick-paved street.

Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 12 x 17 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)

Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic prints

Notes: Formerly negative F22985. Hand-written on back of photoprint: "left to right: W. Rainger, D. W. Kingston (chief), A. F. Robinson, A. L. Bates (captain), C. Hyunn; "Buck" & "Dutch" - horses."; Title supplied by cataloger.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

 

Town Co's Office, Grand Junction

Date: 1882

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.

Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 9 x 17 cm (3 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)

Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic prints

Notes: Formerly copy negative F10721. Hand-written on back of photoprint: Grand Junction, Colo. Title and date hand-lettered on original negative.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Dolores, Colorado

Denver Public Library Special Collections

Creator: Mollette, Rex.

Date: [1920-1930]

A girl holding a doll walks along a muddy street in Dolores, Colorado, in Montezuma County. Patches of snow melt on the street, on the sidewalks, and on top of the one-story commercial storefronts along the street.

 

 

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Stage arrival at Fremont, Cripple Creek

Denver Public Library Special Collections

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

Date: [1890-1900?]

A large crowd of people gather near the front of the Continental Hotel for the arrival of a stage in Fremont (Cripple Creek, Teller County), Colorado. The group is made up of mostly men and many wear hats and overcoats. Four men sit on top of the stage coach. Signs in front of the commercial buildings in the area read: "Windsor Cafe, Open at All Hours," "One Price, Shoes, Clothing and Housewares [?]." and "The Continental." One store front has equipment and clothing for miners displayed on the front porch.

 

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Manitou Bathhouse

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

Men, women, children and a brass band pose on porches, balconies and the grounds of the Manitou Bath House in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. The three-story frame Queen Anne style building has gable roofs, ridge cresting and square towers with finials. Shows a bridge over Fountain Creek and a sign reads "Sunny Side Cottages Hotel."

Date:

[between 1890 and 1900?]

Notes: Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection. History Colorado.

 

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Upper Creede, Colorado

Date:[1892?]

People stand on the wood-plank sidewalk and in the unpaved, littered street in the town of Creede, Colorado, (Upper Creede) in Mineral County. The one and two story buildings have clapboard siding, gables, cornices, and false fronts. A street light hangs over the street. Trees grow on the steep cliffsides that surround the town. A "Creede Assay Office Hugh Stokes Notary Public" sign shows.

Format of Original Material 1 copy photonegative ; 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint ; 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9 1/4 in.)

Notes: Hand-written on back of photoprint: As one of the main streets appeared just before the fire that destroyed the entire business section, No. 44. Photoprint has yellowed. Title hand-written on back of photoprint.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Star Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1, Georgetown, Colo.

Creator: McKinney, Albert S.

Date: [1874-1881?]

Georgetown, Colorado, showing the Star Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1, outside the fire house on Sixth (6th, Alpine) Street. The firemen appear to be preparing to take part in a parade; a cart is decorated with American flags. A uniformed man on horseback stands in front of the group. Nineteen firemen in uniforms with conductor-style hats, shirts with a star insignia, neck scarves, dark belts with metal buckles, trim pants, and white gloves gather around the cart holding ladders, with several men in position to pull the cart. Two boys in uniform sit on the horizontal ladders on the cart and wave American flags. Men and boys line the street observing; a woman directly directly behind the cart, in a doorway, looks on. Beyond the fire house, a sign on a wood building reads, "[?] O'Keefe & Co.;" beneath a sign reading "C.C. Churchill, Fruit and Groceries, Tobacco," is a group of women; one holds a child. A sign in the shape of a boot is nearby, and a carriage is in the street.

Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 21 x 18 cm (8 x 6 3/4 in.); 1 photoprint ; 25 x 20 cm (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.)

Digital Version Created From: Randall Album

Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic prints

Notes: Paper on which vintage photoprint is glued is stained and wrinkled. Title printed on front of vintage photoprint. Vintage photoprint is glued to paper which is glued to light cardboard, part of an album page. Written in ink on back of newer photoprint: "Public Library and Branches." Typewritten: "Star Hook and Ladder Company. A unit of the Georgetown Fire Department whose Alpine Hose Company sponsored a p̀ublic Library'."; Written in ink on front of paper on which photoprint is glued: "...Marshall, Jon.[?] Guanella, Chief." Much of inscription is obscured by damage.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

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Road work in Black Hawk

Date: [1910?]

Men with shovels clean up Main Street after a flood in Black Hawk (Gilpin County), Colorado. A Colorado & Southern locomotive pushes flat cars on temporary tracks, they are loaded with dirt and rocks. Shows the Gilpin Hotel, businesses, and men and women spectators.

Format of Original Material: 1 photomechanical print (postcard) ; 9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic postcards

Notes: Title supplied; penciled on verso: "Colorado Central," "After flood in Black Hawk, 1910, when it was the Colorado & Southern."; Library has additional iterations of this item: 1 copy negative 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); R7110054044

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge motor car number 3

Creator: Richardson, Robert W.

Date: 1945

Rear view; Galloping Goose at depot. Photographed: Ophir, Colorado, October 11, 1945.

Format of Original Material: 1 photonegative ; 7 x 11 cm (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Type of Material: Film negatives; Black & white photographs

Notes: Title from inventory prepared by Western History Department, Denver Public Library.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Public school. Telluride, Colorado

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

Created / Published :1940 Sept.

- United States--Colorado--San Miguel County--Telluride

Safety film negatives.

Notes

- Title and other information from caption card.

- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

 

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Saloon, Colorado City, Colorado

Date: 1910

Two bartenders and two customers pose inside the Union Saloon, 605 Colorado Avenue, Colorado City, El Paso County, Colorado. The interior features a wooden bar with brass foot rail, spitoons, back bar with mirror, cash register, glassware, mounted bottle opener, glass doors over wooden shelves filled with liquor bottles, victorian wallpaper, cast iron stove, gas lamps and a glass display cabinet filled with cigar boxes. Several framed pictures of women, a clock with Roman numerals, and a State of Colorado liquor license hang on the walls. Signs read: "Walters Gold Label Beer In Bottles," "Anheuser-Busch," "Goetz Brewing Co., St. Joseph, Mo." "Gannymede '76 Whiskey." Tobacco items include "Banker, Chewing Tobacco Fit For A King," "Duke George," "Razzetti Bros. Inc., Sigari, Toscani," "Bugle," and "Virginia Buck."

1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 20 x 25 cm (7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)

Title supplied by cataloguer; hand-written on back of photoprint mount: "605 Colorado Ave."; Vintage photoprint is mounted on board.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

 

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"Abie's Irish Rose" at the Broadway Theatre

Creator: Rocky Mountain Photo Company.

Date: 1925, July 22

Panoramic view of the cast of "Abie's Irish Rose," a comedy presented at the Broadway Theater, 1756 Broadway, in Denver, Colorado. Men and women pose at the theater's front entrance; two little girls stand at center. A sign above the door reads: "See It Now or Never. Positively Only Engagement in Denver. Anne Nichols Record Breaking Laughing Success. Abie's Irish Rose. Special Low Summer Prices." Another sign reads: "Metropole Restaurant."

Format of Original Material 1 photographic print ; 26 x 58 cm (10 x 31 in.)

Title inked on front of print. Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats: 2 photographic prints ; 26 x 58 cm. (10 x 31 in.), 1 photographic prints ; 26 x 60 cm. (10 x 32 in.).

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Rocky Mountain News

(Monument Hill, Colo., November 1, 2004) Snow-covered fields and a barn south of Castle Rock, Colo., on Monday, November 1, 2004. A Halloween storm dumped snow on the Front Range closing roads and snarling traffic. (Photo by CHRIS SCHNEIDER/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS)

Notes: From correspondence, red barn recently destroyed, by lightning. The landmark red barn on the Greenland Ranch was built in 1922 to replace a larger one that was struck by lighting and burned to the ground (delaying train traffic for hours), according to the Larkspur Historical Society information.

 

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Film crew in West Portal

Creator: Columbine Pictures, Inc.

Date: [1927]

Men, actors or directors and railroad workers, are in the entrance of the Moffat Tunnel in Grand County, Colorado. The site was used as the set for the silent film "Trail of '98." A man, probably the director, wears a cap, tall boots, a suit and a trench coat. Workers wear pants tucked into boots and hats or caps. One man holds a measuring stick and stands beside a tripod and disc possibly used for lighting. Shows railroad construction equipment and lumber used to frame the tunnel.

Format of Original Material: 1 photographic print : black-and-white ; 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.)

Notes: Condition: torn. Formerly F22938; Stamp on verso reads: "Columbine Pictures, Inc., Official Producers of 'Moffat Tunnel' Motion Pictures."; Title supplied. Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats: : 1 copy negative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.).

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

 

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Recreation costume party group of children

Creator: Lillybridge, Charles S., 1849-1935

Outdoor portrait of a group of children dressed in costumes for a party in Denver, Colorado. One boy is dressed as a wizard, another as a Native American. A girl is dressed as a bride.

Date: [between 1904 and 1915?]

Notes: Accession number: 90.152.512; Condition: emulsion chipping and scratched on glass negative.; Formerly W-1028.; Title penciled on negative sleeve.

History Colorado, Lillybridge Collection.

 

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Depot after explosion, Independence, Colo.

The Independence train depot of the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad company following an explosion that killed thirteen non-union miners in Independence (Teller County), Colorado. Remnants of the platform are scattered on the ground. Windows in the building are broken. The structure was damaged during the 1903-1904 Cripple Creek strike called by the Western Federation of Miners.

Date: 1904 June 6

Notes: History Colorado.; Condition: torn, marked.; Formerly F22315; Handwritten on envelope: "C-Military-Strikes-Cripple Creek-1903-04."; Title printed on original negative and reproduced in print.

Physical Description: 1 photographic print ; 12 x 19 cm. (4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.) mounted on mat board.

Is Part Of: History Colorado, original photographs collection.

History Colorado