Mules, horses, oxen, locomotives, hotels, banks and more

 Thing of the past ...
Moving day
Date: [1895-1900]
Man and woman on horseback with possessions loaded on two pack horses on Columbia Avenue, Telluride, Colorado. Man in jacket and hat has rope tied to pack animals on left; woman on right has long skirt, short jacket, hat and handbag. One pack horse has a large trunk, box springs and full sacks, the other a rolled mattress, metal bed frame and suitcase. Street is lined with boardwalks, stone retaining wall on north side, and wood frame residences. Corner structure has a sign: "Police Court, Justice of the Peace;" a two-story house has a bay window, roof cresting, decorative shingles, and bargeboard.
Denver Public Library Special Collections

Thing of the past ...
Cache la Poudre Creek
Drawing shows a covered wagon, labeled "ILL," driven by two ox crossing a river in the mountains. On the far side of the river are two men by a fire, a covered wagon, and men standing and gesturing toward the wagon in the middle of the river. On the near shore men stand beside unhitched wagons, one labeled "Ohio," the other, "1859 Pikes Peak." An ox grazes lower right. This stream is located near present-day Ft. Collins, Colorado. Jenks arrived at camp 52 on Monday, May 30, 1859.
Jenks, Daniel A., 1827-1869, artist
Created / Published:1859.
Headings:
- Covered wagons--1850-1860
- Fords (Stream crossings)--Colorado--1850-1860
- Mountains--Colorado--1850-1860
- United States--Colorado--Cache la Poudre River
Genre: Drawings--American--1850-1860
Notes:
- Signed on left wagon: DAJ.
- Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.9)
Medium: 1 drawing on paper : graphite, ink, and crayon ; 18.3 x 25.5 cm. (sheet).
Call Number/Physical Location: DRWG/US - Jenks, no. 9 (AA size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: ppmsc 04814 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.04814
cph 3g09430 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09430
cph 3c28892 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c28892
Library of Congress Control Number:2004661636

 

Thing of the past ...
After “the Great Fires” of 1896, residents of the district were anxious to show they had bounced back. The National Hotel was emblematic of the resurgence, rising like a Phoenix out of the ashes to prominence on Bennett Avenue. 

Thing of the past ...
South Park, & Mt. Lincoln
Six men in front of Dolly Varden mine, South Park, and Mt. Lincoln, Colorado.
Chamberlain, W. G. (William Gunnison), photographer
Chamberlain, W. G. (William Gunnison), publisher
Created / Published: Denver, Colorado : W. G. Chamberlain, [1878]
Headings:
- Mountains--Colorado--1870-1880
- Mining--Colorado--1870-1880
Genre:
Stereographs--1870-1880
Photographic prints--1870-1880
Notes:
- Title transcribed from item.
- Handwritten note on verso: Dolly Varden Mine.
- Series: Colorado Mountain Scenery.
Medium:
1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format)
Call Number/Physical Location: LOT 11975 [item] [P&P]
Repository:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: cph 3c10831 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c10831
Library of Congress Control Number: 94505155 

Thing of the past ...
Paradise guest ranch in Woodland Park, by postcard. 

Thing of the past ...
Marion Savage (Sabin), age 3, in front of the Rockland Hotel in Palmer Lake. 

Thing of the past ...
Unloading sugar beets from railroad cars, Loveland, Colorado
Photograph possibly taken during the fall 1901 inaugural season of the Great Western Sugar Company refinery at Loveland, Colorado. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016)
Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published:[between ca. 1901 and ca. 1915]
Genre:Glass negatives
Notes:
- Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
- Current, corrected title devised by Library staff, based on information from the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008.
- Original incorrect title "Coal cars and stored coal, Loveland, Co." from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
- General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
- Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163914346 External
Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-B2- 2408-13 [P&P]
Source Collection: Bain News Service photograph collection
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ggbain 10472 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10472
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014690455

Thing of the past ...
Keystone Placer Mine, sluice boxes
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
The Keystone Placer Mine in San Miguel County Colorado. Shows mining buildings and sluice apparatus.
Date: [between 1882 and 1900?]
Notes: Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: glass plate chipped, emulsion scratched, pocked.; Formerly Jackson 2807.; Hand-lettered title on negative.; Number: "3202" hand lettered on negative.
History Colorado

Thing of the past ...
Stony Point on the Colorado Central road in Clear Creek Canyon.
___ William Henry Jackson

 

Thing of the past ...
Railroad station at Cimarron, Colorado
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Created / Published: 1940 Sept.
Headings:
- United States--Colorado--Montrose County--Cimarron
Genre:Safety film negatives
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch4
- Film copy on SIS roll 24, frame 2414.
Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-USF34- 037556-D [P&P] LOT 464 (corresponding photographic print)
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: fsa 8b26141 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b26141
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017787726 

 

Thing of the past ...
Perry Park, Colorado
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957.
View of gambrel-roofed residence and barn (Perry Park Ranch) in Perry Park (Douglas County) near Larkspur, Colorado.
Date: [between 1900 and 1920?]
Notes: Glass plate with oxidation & stain.; Title from hand-written inventory.; R7000739235
Physical Description 1 photonegative : glass ; 21 x 26 cm. (8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint ; 12 x 15 cm. (4 3/4 x 6 in.)
Is Part Of: L. C. McClure collection 1890-1935.
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.

 

Thing of the past ...
[Navajo hogan]
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer
Created / Published: c1905.
Headings:
- Navajo Indians--Structures--1900-1910
- Dwellings--Southwestern States--1900-1910
- Indians of North America--Southwestern States--Structures--1900-1910
Genre:Photographic prints--1900-1910
Notes:
- Edward S. Curtis Collection.
- Curtis no. 1041-04.
- Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 1, p. 82.
Medium: 1 photographic print.
Call Number/Physical Location: LOT 12311 [P&P;]
Digital Id: cph 3c05863 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c05863
Library of Congress Control Number: 92513323  

 

Thing of the past ...
Mills, Emma Gold Mining Co., Dunton, Colo., the Emma mill and boarding house
Summary: View looking down on a mining complex owned by the Emma Gold Mining Company shows both the "old" and the "new" mill, and the boarding house, Dunton, Dolores County, Colorado. The new mill is situated adjacent to the old mill, and the boarding house, with cooks posing in front, is a single story log cabin with chinking.
Date: [between 1880 and 1910?]
Notes: Formerly F48122.; Title hand-written on front of original.; R7100617361
Physical Description: 1 copy negative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on mat board ; 15 x 21 cm. (6 x 8 in.)
Source: Daniel Wenger, 1996.
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library. 

 

Thing of the past ...
Cripple Creek District) Independence Station (after destruction by strikers) wrecked platform where 14 men were killed.
Summary: The railroad station in Independence, Teller County, Colorado, is in ruins after being destroyed by strikers; fourteen men were killed on the platform. Doors are off their hinges, all glass in windows and doors has been broken out, torn shingles lie on the roof, a wall of the building has been broken down, and debris fills the exposed room. A sign reads "Independence" is on the building. Two women look in a broken window, two men lean against the building, and a group of men and women watch two workmen with shovels work near the train tracks.
Date: 1904
Notes "(See Collier's June 25-1904 similar photograph.) p. 11."; Formerly F10058.; Photoprint is dirty and has paper fragments glued to back.; Title hand-written on back of photoprint.; Vintage photographic print.; R7100095292
Physical Description 1 copy photonegative ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.); 1 photoprint ; 10 x 11 cm. (4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Source Source: Luise Weiss, Holywood, Calif.
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library. 

 

Thing of the past ...
On the Custer outlook
Edward S. Curtis (second from right) and four Apsaroke men, seated in half circle, their horses behind them.
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer
Created / Published:c1908 July 6.
Headings:
- Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
- Indians of North America--Montana--1900-1910
- Crow Indians--1900-1910
- Horses--Montana--1900-1910
Genre:
Group portraits--1900-1910
Portrait photographs--1900-1910
Photographic prints--1900-1910
Notes:
- H113091 U.S. Copyright Office.
- Curtis no. 2763-08.
- Men identified by Library staff as: Goes Ahead (far left) and Chief Child (center).
- Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
Medium: 1 photographic print.
Call Number/Physical Location: LOT 12320 [item] [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id:
ppmsca 55296 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.55296
cph 3b14123 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b14123
Library of Congress Control Number:2002722305 

 

Thing of the past ...
Title: Gillett, Colo. Store
Date: 1920-1940?
C.E. Butters, Althea B. Seirer and step-daughter in front of Butters' general store, in Gillett, Colorado, includes a partial view of a wood frame building with a pair of street level four-paned glass windows. The man is in suspenders, and the woman and girl wear hats, jackets and knickers. The boardwalk is in disrepair.
Denver Public Library Special Collections  

 

Thing of the past ...
Title: 1st Nat. Bank, 20 yrs. ago, A. H. Hunt, cash, at window
Creator: Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
Date:: 1910-1920?
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."
H. S. Poley collection. Denver Public Library Special Collections. 

Colorado's historical development tied to Taos

 Home to Taos Pueblo 

people more than 1,000 years

 By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com

 Just back from Taos Pueblo, Place of the Red Willows. Home to Taos Pueblo people for more than 1,000 years, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as well as a National Historic Landmark. The tribe has its own government, land base, and municipality and have been there, continuously for the most part, for history as we know it.

Mariano Medina, born in Taos,  is widely credited with being the local Loveland area's first businessman and permanent resident. That area, mostly in Loveland city limits now, was like a lot of Colorado pre-goldrush ...  sparsely populated.  Dozens of other things Colorado-related have their history wrapped up in the fabric of Taos. Kit Carson, Fort Garland, Pueblo, other mountain men, and the development of state itself.

"Home to the Taos Pueblo people, also known in the indigenous language, Tiawa, as the Red Willow People. living on and with this land for time immemorial, the community continues to thrive in contemporary times.," says the Taos Pueblo visitor map.

 

"Starting with Pueblo Plaza, the captivation beauty of the Sangre de Christo mountain range and both adobe structures rising five stories, the North House, Hluamma, and South House, Hlaukwima are still lived in today. St. Jerome Church, built in 1850, and continues to be used by the community today. 

The ruins of the St. Jerome Church are the testimony resiliency of the community. Constructed in 1619, abandoned during the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, and lastly bombed by the U.S. Calvary in 1847, the Red Willow Creek at the center of our village as a life source and a reminder of the fight for the return of our current land base. This space is kept within the adobe wall structure, once a barrier to enemy tribes, now to modernization."

 

 

July Fourth, Palmer Lake to Laramie, and more

 

Thing of the past ...
Auditorium and tents in the Glen, 1907, Palmer Lake.

Thing of the past ... 

Woods Saloon, Turret
Creator: Hall, Frank L.
Date: 1905
Men watch a boxing match at Woods Saloon in Turret, (Chaffee County), Colorado. The referee stands between the boxers; they wear trunks and gloves and are poised to begin fighting.
Denver Public Library Special Collections. 

Thing of the past ...
Central City, Colorado. Engine of Colorado and Southern Railroad
Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer
Created / Published: 1942 May.
Headings:
- United States--Colorado--Gilpin County--Central City
Genre:Safety film negatives
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch8
- Film copy on SIS roll 11, frame 936.
Medium:1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-USF34- 065727-D [P&P] LOT 474 (corresponding photographic print)
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: fsa 8c22104 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c22104
Library of Congress Control Number:2017815287 

Thing of the past ...
United Rico Cornet Band
Credit: Denver Public Library Special Collections
Date : [1900-1920]
Men from the United Rico Cornet Band pose with their instruments near commercial buildings and an aerial mine tramway in Rico, Dolores County, Colorado. The cable ore car has number "18" on it. The men hold cornets, trombones, drums, tubas (or euphoniums), clarinets and French horns. They wear suits, ties, hats; some wear knickers and caps. Women and men stand in the background. Signs read: "Laundry" and "Restaurant." Shows a brick building with a tower and dormers, houses and utility poles. 

Thing of the past ...
Along the wooden walk, the Rico Court House. 

Thing of the past ...
Trinidad, Colorado's first city building, erected in 1888, was not only Firehouse No. 1 but also city hall, police station, and jail. As of 2016, it housed a children's museum
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Created / Published:2016-06-08.
Headings:
- United States--Colorado--Las Animas County--Trinidad
- America
- Trinidad's oldest building
- Trinidad Firehouse No. 1
- Trinidad Children's Museum
Genre: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
Notes:
- Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
- Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
- Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-DIG-highsm- 38872 (ONLINE) [P&P]
Source Collection: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: highsm 38872 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.38872
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017688764 

Thing of the past ...
Laying out the town. Very early photo of Dolores (1893). Photo by William Henry Jackson. 

Thing of the past ...
Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Flooring being laid on semi-trailers for general utility used around Army camps and supply depots. These trailers carry a payload of 7,000 pounds on a combination platform stake body of hardwood
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
Created / Published: 1941 June.
Headings:
- United States--Colorado--Denver County--Denver
Genre: Safety film negatives
Notes:
- Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 328.
Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location:LC-USE6- D-001114 [P&P]
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: fsa 8b00579 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b00579
Library of Congress Control Number:2017690050 

Thing of the past ...
Campbells Barber Shop
Date: ca. 1908
Photographer: unknown
Description: Interior of Campbells Barber Shop at 12 S. Tejon below Exchange National Bank, showing barbers posed beside their draped customers. Rack on back wall contains the shaving mugs and brushes of customers. Sign in back over doorway reads "Hot and Cold Baths".
Location: Colorado Springs (Colo., Tejon Street
Carl Matthews Photograph Collection, Pikes Peak Library District. 

 

Thing of the past ...
[Denver High School, Denver Colo. Making bedside tables]
Created / Published: 25 April 1919 [date received]
Headings:
- American Red Cross
- United States--Colorado--Denver
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes:
- Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card for related, adjacent negative.
- Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC.
- Group title: Jr. Red Cross.
- Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
- General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
- Temp note: Batch 8
Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-A6195- 5323A [P&P]
Source Collection: American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: anrc 03557 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/anrc.03557
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017669528 

Thing of the past ...
Fourth of July Parade at Pueblo West, Colorado
Taylor, David Alan, 1951- (Research team member)
Hardin, Jim (Research team member)
Light, Ken (Photographer)
Created / Published: Pueblo West, Colorado, July 4, 1990
Headings:
- Italian Americans
- Photographs
- Ethnography
- Documentary photographs
- United States -- Colorado -- Pueblo West
Genre:
Photographs
Ethnography
Documentary photographs
Notes:
- Index data: All these images were taken at the annual 4th of July parade at Pueblo West. The parade began at about 11 a.m. and lasted for about one and one-half hours; 1-2, children on float; lettering on side of float reads: Let Freedom Ring; 3-9, old Cadillac in parade with small American flags in its fenders; 10, part of crowd waiting for the parade to begin; 11-16, elderly woman in motorized chair with large American flag attached; 17, people standing beside campaign sign of Steve Arveschoug; 18-22, youngster in small wagon festooned with flags; 23-33, Frank Goodhunt (a Tiwa Indian born in Taos, N.M.) holding an American flag; Goodhunt's grandson stands beside him at the head of the parade; 34-35, Frank Goodhunt with flag; 36, Frank Goodhunt with granddaughter (left) and grandson at the head of the parade
Medium: 35 mm black-and-white film negatives
Call Number/Physical Location: Call number: AFC 1989/022: KL-B200
Source Collection: Italian Americans in the West Project collection (AFC 1989/022)
Repository: American Folklife Center
Digital Id:
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc1989022.afc1989022_kl_b200  

Thing of the past ...
The old Fort Smith Saloon (in 2015 the Unicas Southwest handicraft store), a historic building featured in the 1969 Western movie "True Grit" in the town of Ridgway, which calls itself the "Gateway to the San Juans," in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Created / Published:2015-06-03.
Headings:
- United States--Colorado--Ouray County--Ridgway
- America
- Gateway to the San Juans
- Fort Smith saloon
- True Grit movie
Genre:Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
Notes:
- Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
- Remote Ridgway declined alarmingly in the 1980s after plans were afoot to flood the little town to make a reservoir; several building owners abandoned their buildings or allowed them to deteriorate. When the reservoir plans evaporated, the town began a period of slow growth and gentrification.
- Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
- Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-DIG-highsm- 32413 (ONLINE) [P&P]
Source Collection: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: highsm 32413 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.32413
Library of Congress Control Number:2015632428

 Thing of the past ...
~A snow covered 4th of July celebration in Altman Colorado 1901~
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Thing of the past ...
July 4th, Street Scene in Laramie, Wyoming, 1928.
Ludwig-Svenson Studio Collection
University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center 

Portland Hoist to School of Mines Science and Research

 

Thing of the past ...
Hoist, Portland No.2
Date: 1900
Photographer: Harlan, Andrew J., 1859-1926
Description: Interior of a Cripple Creek mine building housing a Webster, Camp and Lane steam engine in operation used to generate power for the mine hoist. Two men and a boy operate equipment. Annotation at bottom of image states “Hoist, Portland No. 2” and “A.J. Harlan Photo, Colo Spgs”.
Location Cripple Creek (Colo.)
Collection: Carl Mathews Collection, Pikes Peak Library District

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 ...
Denver Bazaar
Created / Published: [1919]
Headings:
- American Red Cross
- United States--Colorado--Denver
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes:
- Title and notes from Red Cross caption card.
- Group title: Junior Red Cross.
- Date based on date of negatives in same range.
- Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
- General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
- Temp note: Batch 7
Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-A6195- 4140 [P&P]
Source Collection: American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Repository:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: anrc 02740 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/anrc.02740
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017668724 

Thing of the past ...
Colorado City parade, July 4, 1876?
A parade float is pulled by teams of horses on a dirt street in probably Colorado City (El Paso County), Colorado. Men are beside a replica log cabin on the float with a banner that reads: "Colorado's First Capitol, Colorado City, El Paso County First Court House, Colorado City." Garlands and United States flags decorate the float. Frame and brick businesses on the road have signs that read: "Colo. Springs Creamery" and "Silver State House, Rooms and Lodging By Night or Week." Colorado Historical Society, Original photographs collection. 

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 ...
Convention Hall, Denver
Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published:[no date recorded on caption card]
Headings: - Denver
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes:
Likely the 1908 Democratic National Convention:
Held at the Denver Auditorium Arena.
Marked the first time a major political party held its convention in a Western state. Included female delegates, which was a significant step at the time
- Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
- Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
- General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-B2- 417-8 [P&P] LOT 7158 (Corresponding print)
Source Collection: Bain News Service photograph collection
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id:ggbain 50040 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.50040
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014696578 

Thing of the past ...
Anaconda Cripple Creek Short Line
Date: 1910-1919
Photographer: unknown
Description: Anaconda with houses in foreground and tailings piles and mills in background on hillside. "McKinney Mining Co." written on large building in background. Title written on bottom of print. "Anaconda - Cripple Creek District" typed on caption on mounting board. Crop marks and notes are visible on print and mounting board.
Location: Anaconda (Colo.)
Collection: Carl Mathews Collection, Pikes Peak Library District

 

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Passenger, alighting from morning train, Montrose, Colorado]
Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1940 Sept.] Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives. 

 

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Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Moffat Road
Sawdey, E. F., copyright claimant
Hindmarsh, R. B., copyright claimant
Created / Published:c1909.
Headings:
- United States--Colorado--Steamboat Springs
Genre:
Cityscape photographs
Gelatin silver prints
Panoramic photographs
Notes:
- J134864 U.S. Copyright Office
- Copyright deposit; E. F. Sawdey & R. B. Hindmarsh; November 5, 1909.
Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10 x 61.5 in.
Call Number/Physical Location:
PAN US GEOG - Colorado no. 4 (F size) [P&P]
Source Collection: Panoramic photographs (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: pan 6a18548 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a18548
cph 3c30412 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c30412
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007661955 

 

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[Edison (Thomas), Luther Burbank, Henry Ford. Three benefactors]
Photo shows (left to right) inventors Thomas Edison, Luther Burbank, and Henry Ford, seated on the porch of Burbank's house on Tupper Street, Santa Rosa, California. Edison and Ford traveled to Santa Rosa by special train to meet Burbank on October 15, 1915, during the Pan-Pacific International Exposition.
Swanets, Oscar G., copyright claimant
Created / Published: c1929, [photographed in 1915]
Notes:
- JO3246 U.S. Copyright Office.
- Title from Catalogue of Copyright Entries covering 1929, p. 242.
- Copyright deposit; Oscar G. Swanets; 1929.
- Caption card tracings: 3 PI; Shelf.
Medium:1 photographic print.
Call Number/Physical Location:BIOG FILE [item] [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: cph 3a51638 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a51638
Library of Congress Control Number:2005685705 

 

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Swimming pools, Ouray, Colo., photographed between 1927 and 1929,
George L. Beam, photographer
Swimmers enjoy the Ouray Swimming Pool constructed in 1927, Radium Springs Park (formerly Chipeta Park) Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. A row of tent bath houses are on the south side of the large circular pool, later destroyed in summer of 1929 flood. Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library. 

 

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Tower at Genoa, 5 states can be seen from observatory~c.1940
The tower at Genoa, Colorado, six stories high with glassed and open observation decks, was built in the early 1900s by C. W. Gregory. Genoa is the highest point between Denver and New York City, and six states are visible: painted on the tower and is "By Ripley in Believe It or Not, States to be Seen. Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, N. Mexico. World's Wonder View fr[om Tower]." A stone sign in front of the building includes a mural of mountains, and reads: "In Memory to the Wonders of the Ages, Come in and See Them It's Free."
from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.  

 

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Tom Mix with Lincoln car, [5/21/25]
Created / Published: [1925 May 21]
Genre:Glass negatives
Notes:
- Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve.
- Date from related negative LC-F8-35598.
- Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
- General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco
- This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.
- Temp. note: Batch three.
Medium:1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-F8- 35601 [P&P]
Source Collection: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id:npcc 13568 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.13568
Library of Congress Control Number:2016839834

 

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Grizzly bears, Yellowstone Park
Created / Published:1937.
Headings
- Bears--1930-1940
- United States--Wyoming--Yellowstone National Park
Genre:
Postcards--1930-1940
Photographs--1930-1940
Notes:
- Title from item.
- Copyright by J.C. Haberstroh.
- Copyright no.: J 22128.
- Transfer; Copyright Office.
Medium: 1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)
Call Number/Physical Location: PCRD 4 - Wyoming - Yellowstone National Park, no. 2 [P&P]
Source Collection: Postcard filing series (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id:
pcrd 1d08193 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pcrd.1d08193
pcrd 2d08193 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pcrd.2d08193
Library of Congress Control Number: 2024694574

 

 

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Young Grizzly Bear
Photograph shows Young Grizzly Bear, an American Indian man, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing left, wearing feather headdress.
Moorhouse, Lee, 1850-1926, photographer
Created / Published:[1900]
Headings:
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Northwest, Pacific--1900
- Headdresses--Northwest, Pacific--1900
Genre:
Portrait photographs--1900
Gelatin silver prints--1900
Notes:
- 10407 U.S. Copyright Office.
- Title from item.
- On back: "Photo by Lee Moorhouse."
- Copyrighted May 16, 1900 by Lee Moorhouse.
- No. 12.
- WSUNA

 

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Melvin Sinton, of Ithaca, NY, arrived in Colorado Springs on April 3, 1880, hoping the local climate would soothe his asthma. Melvin’s father Joseph Sinton encouraged his son to go into the dairy business. After purchasing 12 cows he built a barn large enough for a herd of 20 with his father’s help. The barn, located Willamette and St. Vrain in the 800 block east, was built of slabs from the Black Forest with a corrugated tin roof at a cost of 50 dollars.
Milk deliveries were made from a small wagon and the milk was dipped from a large can in front of the driver. It was custom in those days for the milk man to ring a bell in front of each customer’s house then wait for them to come out. Joseph Sinton suggested that they would save time by carrying the milk to the door. This new system proved very popular and they got plenty of customers.” It was not until 1937 when the last horse-drawn Sinton Dairy wagon was replaced by a fleet of delivery trucks.  

 

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Red sandstone quarry near Lyons Colorado in 1890s.

 

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Cripple Creek, July 4, 1893, J. G. Wilson, photographer
Crowded street scene with people and horse-drawn wagons and carriages for Fourth (4th) of July celebration on Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; spectators stand on second story porch of Palace Hotel; striped bunting and United States flags are on commercial buildings; men and women use umbrellas for shade.
Date: 1893 July 4. Denver Public Library, Western History.

 

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Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Chemical prospecting for oil becomes more and more important as the war goes on the demand for oil increases. Petroleum engineers call chemical prospecting the first scientific approach to the detection of oil in the earth. The big glass condensers, with which these engineering students are working with a professor of geophysics are used in a soil analysis test. The percentage of wax left as residue at the end of the experiment indicates the nearness of petroleum to the site from which the soil sample was taken. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Created / Published:1942 Oct.
Headings:
- United States--Colorado--Jefferson County--Golden
Genre:Nitrate negatives
Notes:
- Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Film copy on SIS roll 41, frame 682.
Medium:1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-USE6- D-008686 [P&P] LOT 1906 (corresponding photographic print)
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: fsa 8b09869 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b09869
Library of Congress Control Number:2017696230