Fort Collins, Denver, Cortez, Telluride, Dolores, Loveland, Estes Park

 

Thing of the past ...

Date: 1870-1890

Blacksmith's shop in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, has a sign: "Jerrys Shoeing & Blacksmithing;" deer antlers are on the roof. One man shoes a horse; others stand by with a dog. Physical Description: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 16 x 24 cm (6 x 9 1/2 in.)

Geographic Area: Fort Collins (Colo.)

Related Material: Image File: ZZR710010875

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

Notes: Formerly F28454. Title hand-written on back of photoprint. R7100108752

Denver Public Library Special Collections

Thing of the past ...

Date: 1883

Men of the Fort Collins Volunteer Fire Department pose by the fire house in Fort Collins (Larimer County), Colorado, with a hose-reel and a horse drawn ladder carriage. The brick building has a cornice, volutes, and a pediment; sign on adjacent storefront reads: "Free Reading Room."

Physical Description: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 11 x 17 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)

Subject: Fort Collins (Colo.)--19th centuryFire stations--Colorado--Fort Collins--19th century

Geographic Area: Fort Collins (Colo.)

Related Material Image File: ZZR710010931

Type of Material: Film negatives Photographic prints

Digital Version Created From: Pioneers Museum.

Notes: Formerly F24896. Title supplied by cataloger. R7100109318

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

Thing of the past ...

September 1, 1916

Elderly Fort Collins, Colorado, pioneers pose outside of the Taft home in Larimer County.

Physical Description: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 16 x 24 cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)

Geographic Area: Fort Collins (Colo.)

Related Material: Image File: ZZR710010869

Type of Material: Film negativesPhotographic prints, Black & white photographs

Notes: Formerly F40549. Hand-written on front of photoprint: "A group of pioneers taken at the home of Mr. and Mrs Walter Taft on their 46th Anniversary. Presented to the Pioneer Society by Emily Wright Abbott."; Title hand-written on back of photoprint. R7100108697

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

Thing of the past ...

The first US Denver Mint, Circa 1860s. The Clark, Gruber and Co. building was expanded and distinguished by a new tower. In its days as a private mint, inside this building were produced many coins.

From Colorado Mining History In Photos, The Mining Bureau.

Thing of the past ...
Date: 1920-1925
Denver police officers pose near police vehicles probably in Denver, Colorado. Automobiles include a paddy wagon, three patrol cars, and a vehicle with an iron I-beam mounted on the frame as a lift. The men and vehicles are positioned near a factory with large glass windows.
Physical Description: 1 photonegative : nitrate ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.).
Born-Digital or Analog: Analog
Geographic Area: Denver (Colo.)
Collection: Photographs - Western History
Related Material: Image File: ZZR710029728
Notes:
Condition: discolored, scratched. Formerly F3823; Title supplied. Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats: 1 photographic print ; 21 x 26 cm. (8 x 10 in.). R7100297284
Donor: City and County of Denver

 

Thing of the past ...
Creator: Post, Frederick E.
Date: 1889-1891
Studio portrait of a Denver Police officer who wears a uniform coat with a single row of brass buttons and rounded police hat. He wears a badge in the shape of a star that reads: "Denver Police, 49."
Physical Description: 1 photographic print on card mount ; 15 x 11 cm (6 x 4 in.).
Born-Digital or Analog: Analog
Geographic Area Denver (Colo.)
Collection Photographs - Western History
Related Material: Image File: ZZR710029675
Notes:
Back of card decorated with art nouveau designs and printing. Condition: soiled. Printing on back of card: "Instantaneous Process Used Exclusively, Negative Preserved, Duplicates Can Be Had At Any Time."; Title supplied. R7100296759
Donor: Tod New
Denver Public Library Special Collections. 

 

Thing of the past ...
Creator:Duhem Brothers
Date: 1869-1879
The Police Department in Denver, Colorado; shows men in uniforms posing with boys by a street lamp and a brick building with sign: "City Jail."
Physical Description: 1 copy negative : black and white ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on album page ; 10 x 9 cm (4 x 3 1/2 in.)
Born-Digital or Analog: Analog
Geographic Area: Denver (Colo.)
Collection: Photographs - Western HistoryRelated Material
Image File: ZZR710018658Type of Material
Film negatives, Photographic prints.
Digital Version Created From: Duhem Brothers. WHC Album ; #139, p. 54, photo #195
Notes: Album page verso has X-18653, X-18654, and X-18655. Formerly F10858. Image shares album page with X-18656, and X-18657. Photo included in album; title inked on page. Printed at bottom of album page: "Views for sale at a reduced price, wholesale and retail, by Duhem Bros., Call at our Art Gallery, or send for catalogue.," and "Dailey & Smart, printers and binders."; Library also holds positive and negative microfilm copies shelved in Western History Dept. R7100186580
Denver Public Library Special Collections. 

 

Thing of the past ...
circa 1890
Members of a riding party sit on horses outside the "Cortez Stage Stables" in Cortez, Colorado (Montezuma County). The stable is a two- story structure with a gable, stovepipe chimney, shingles, and rectangular windows.
Physical Description: 1 copy photo negative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinet card : cabinet cards ; 11 x 19 cm (4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
Born-Digital or Analog: Analog
Geographic Area: Cortez (Colo.)
Collection: Photographs - Western HistoryRelated Material
Image File: ZZR710007402
Type of Material:Cabinet photographs,Film negatives,
Digital Version Created From: L. E. Dick, Chicago.
Notes: Formerly F40237. Photoprint has yellowed and faded; card has yellowed and is marked. Title hand-written on back of photoprint. R7100074026.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.  

 

Thing of the past ...
Gold bullion mule leaving the Tomboy Mine in Telluride, 1918.
Two men on horseback leading a mule. Photographer: Byers Studio, Telluride. Caption: "Gold Bullion mule leaving Tomboy Mine for the Express office 1918. Two bars each weighing 50#. Gross value of mule load $15,000." Location of negative: Western Colorado Power Company Collection. Center for Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College.  

 

Thing of the past ...
Creator:McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: circa 1909
Bird's eye view of Estes Park, Colorado; wooden frame residences and buildings, canvas tents on wooden frames, bell tower; identifiable businesses include Kandy Kitchen, general merchandise store, and hay, grain and lumber store.
Physical Description: 1 copy photonegative ; 9 x 11 cm (3 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.); 1 photonegative : glass ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.); 2 photoprints ; 19 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in .)
Born-Digital or Analog: Analog
Geographic Area: Estes Park (Colo.)
Collection: Photographs - Western HistoryRelated Material
Image File: ZZR700071005
Type of Material; Film negativesGlass negatives
Black & white photographs: Photographic prints
Digital Version Created From WH2300. Louis Charles McClure papers, album VIII, 165
Original Material Found in Collection WH2300. Louis Charles McClure papers:
Notes: Copy negative made from vintage photographic prints. Title and signature hand-lettered on glass plate. R7000710053
Denver Public Library Special Collections 

 

Thing of the past ...
Creator: Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977
Date: 1930-1970
A horse is tied to a hitching post in a mountain bowl surrounded by vertical rock walls, Rocky Mountain National Park, near Estes Park, Larimer County, Colorado.
Physical Description: 1 photonegative : black-and-white ; 7 x 12 cm (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Born-Digital or Analog: Analog
Geographic Area Estes Park (Colo.)
Collection Photographs - Western History
Related Material: Image File: ZZR710004810
Type of Material: Film negatives, Black & white photographs Original Material Found in CollectionWH906.
Muriel Sibell Wolle papers.
NotesFormerly Wo2010. Title hand-written on front of negative envelope. R7100048106Donor: Muriel Sibell Wolle estate, 1977.
Denver Public Library Special Collections 

 

Thing of the past ...
Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977Date1930-1950
Three women pose in front of a log building in Estes Park, Larimer County, Colorado.
Physical Description: 1 photonegative : black-and-white ; 7 x 12 cm (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Born-Digital or Analog: Analog
Geographic Area: Estes Park (Colo.)
Collection:Photographs - Western History:
Related Material
Image File: ZZR710004807
Type of Material: Film negatives:Black & white photographs Original Material Found in Collection: WH906. Muriel Sibell Wolle papers.
Notes: Formerly Wo2007. Title hand-written on front of negative envelope. R7100048075
Donor: Muriel Sibell Wolle estate, 1977 

 

Thing of the past ...
Date:1879-1882
Looking east on Fourth (4th) Street, business district, Loveland, Colorado. The Foot & Stoddard Livery Stable, (later the Masonic Temple) is on the left. The construction of the cisterns to be filled with water from the Big Thompson shows along the dirt street. The building on the right, with the high sign, is the Herzinger and Harter Mercantile, first store in Loveland built of brick in 1877-1878.
Physical Description: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 11 x 13 cm (5 x 7 in.)
Geographic Area: Loveland (Colo.)
Related Material: Image File: ZZR710012191
Type of Material: Film negatives, Photographic printsBlack & white photographs
Notes: Description typed on back of photoprint; hand-written on back: Original of photograph is dated 1882. Formerly F28852. Photoprint shows deterioration of original. Title typed on label on front of original. R7100121912
Denver Public Library Special Collections. 

 

Thing of the past ...
Date:1959-1970
Boys and girls swim, slide, dive from boards and play in a Loveland swimming pool, Colorado.
Physical Description: 1 photoprint ; 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in.)
Geographic Area Loveland (Colo.)
Related Material:Image File: ZZR710012237
Type of Material:Photographic prints:
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger. R7100122374
Denver Public Library Special Collections  

 

Thing of the past ...
Date:1905
A group of men and women stand near convertible automobiles in Loveland (Larimer County), Colorado. The women wear hats with veils and dresses with bustles.
Physical Description:1 photoprint on album page: black and white ; 7 x 10 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Born-Digital or Analog: Analog Subject
Geographic Area: Loveland (Colo.)
Related Material: Image File: ZZR710012191
Type of Material: Film negatives, Photographic prints,Black & white photographs.
Denver Public Library, Special Collections  

 

Thing of the past ...
Dolores, Colo.
Date: 1890-1900
Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado; shows a Rio Grande Southern Railroad train, schoolhouse, and wooden buildings on a main street. Original Material Found in Collection
C Photo Album 109. Colorado 1890s
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company; Dolores (Colo.) actually Rio Grande Southern Railroad. 

 

Thing of the past ...
Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge locomotive, engine number 464, engine type 2-8-2
Creator: Richardson, Robert W.
Date: 1951
Summary: Head on, close view. Photographed: between Bear Creek and Stoner, Colorado, August 8, 1851.
Physical Description: 1 photonegative ; 7 x 11 cm (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.).
Notes: Title from inventory prepared by Western History Department, Denver Public Library. R7004001595 

 

Thing of the past ...
Water tank; ice on tank. Photographed: Mancos, Colorado, 1952(?).
Robert W. Richardson, photographer. Western History Department, Denver Public Library 

 

Thing of the past ...
Creator: Collier, Joseph
Date:1875-1900
L.G. Denison's grocery store stands next to S.R. Fitzgarrald's law office on Main Street in Telluride, Colorado. Farther down the block are J. Tryan's hardware store, Charles Oderfeld's general merchandise shop and a meat market. Across the street is the Telluride House Lodging and Bath House and W.H. Stewart's hardware store. The post office, a bakery and a grocery store stand farther down the block. People stand on the sidewalks in front of the shops. Two groups of pack burros are gathered in the dirt street in the foreground. A ridge of mountains is in the distance.
Physical Description:1 copy photonegative ; 11 x 16 cm (4 x 6 1/4 in.); 1 copy photonegative ; 7 x 11 cm (2 3/4 x 4 in.); 1 photoprint ; 16 x 25 cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
Geographic Area: Telluride (Colo.)
Related Material:
Image File: ZZR700130164
Type of MaterialFilm negativesPhotographic prints
Notes: 365. Telluride handwritten on image in Collier collection of Western History Department, Denver Public Library. Larger negative has number "15" stenciled in upper corner. R7001301645 

 

Thing of the past ...
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Date:1882-1900
View of stagecoaches and passengers on the main street in Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado. A man on horseback packs a rifle, gold pan, and shovel. Men stand in front of a storefront with a sign that reads: "J.J. Harris & Co."
Physical Description: 1 photoprint : albumen ; 17 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.) mounted on album page.
Born-Digital or Analog:Analog
Subject: Dolores (Colo.)--19th centuryPassengers--Colorado--Dolores--19th centuryStagecoaches--Colorado--Dolores--19th century
Geographic Area:Dolores (Colo.)
CollectionPhotographs - Western History Related Material
Image File: ZZR700301038
Type of Material: Sample books Albumen prints Photographic prints Black & white photographs Digital Version Created FromW. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book V. no. 94Original Material Found in Collection W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book V
Notes: at Dolores penciled on photoprint binding. Attribution to Jackson based on inclusion in bound W. H. Jackson sample album. Condition: edges worn, discolored. Formerly F5532. Hand-lettered title reproduced in print. Mounted on verso of album page: WHJ-1037. Number: "[4]244" hand lettered on negative and reproduced on print. R7003010389 

 

Dennis Hopper, Mabel Dodge Luhan, the house, recognized as “a Southwestern institution”

Mabel Dodge Luhan House, or 'Mud Palace,'  inspired some of the greatest minds of the 20th century  

By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com

On a recent trip to Taos, one of the things I really wanted to take a look at was the place where Dennis Hopper hung out during the 1960s and into 1970s. At the art cooperative on the square, I asked the artist manning the desk where that was. It turns out that it wasn't very far from our hotel, which was just a few doors down the street from Kit Carson's place, when he lived in Taos.

 Dennis Hopper discovered Taos when filming "Easy Rider," the cult, hippy, biker movie at the end of the '60s and, and felt an immediate affinity for the place. (Photo from wall, in what was Hopper's residence in 1970s.)

 

Hopper said when asked how he thinks he’ll be remembered that, “I’m not sure how my visual art and my movies will be seen, but I think the work I’ve done is… interesting. Hopefully it’ll all come together in an interesting story,”as quoted in the British publication, “The Telegraph.”

"Hopper was one of the bravest, most courageous artists that America (and Taos) has ever produced—unafraid to revisit places inside of himself that had caused him incredible distress to bring authenticity and grit to his art. Dennis Hopper was buried in Ranchos de Taos where he kept a home even after selling the Big House, or Mud Palace as it came to be known during his years there," says Visit Taos, at Taos.org.

"Dennis Hopper’s life in Taos was one he loved, and many of his family members still live here, brought here originally by Hopper when he needed people he trusted to have his back. They still do and so does our sacred mountain, of which Dennis has a view from his gravesite. Every year Taos celebrates Dennis Hopper Day with an Easy Rider Ride, music, movies, and memories of Dennis Hopper’s life in Taos.

He first appeared on the big screen alongside James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause (1955) and Giant (1956) after having attended the Actors Studio and initially appearing on TV. 

 He later played supporting roles in films like Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Hang 'Em High (1968) and True Grit (1969). Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Debut, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s.

Often typecast as a mentally disturbed outsider and rebel in such films as Mad Dog Morgan (1976), The American Friend (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), Rumble Fish (1983), and Blue Velvet (1986). He received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in Hoosiers (1986). His later film roles included True Romance (1993), Speed (1994), Waterworld (1995) and Elegy (2009). He appeared posthumously in the long-delayed The Other Side of the Wind (2018), which had previously been filmed in the early 1970s. 

 

Hopper credited John Wayne with saving his career, as Hopper acknowledged that because of his insolent behavior, he could not find work in Hollywood for seven years. Hopper stated that, because of his marriage to Brooke Hayward, he was the son-in-law of actress Margaret Sullavan, a friend of John Wayne, and Wayne hired Hopper for a role in The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), also directed by Hathaway, which enabled Hopper to restart his film career. 

 

Hopper debuted in an episode of the Richard Boone television series Medic in 1955, portraying a young epileptic. He appeared in the first episode of the TV series The Rifleman (1958–1963) as the troubled orphan protagonist Vernon Tippet who is exploited by his greedy uncle. The series starred Chuck Connors and the premiere episode "The Sharpshooter" was written by Sam Peckinpah. Hopper subsequently appeared in over 140 episodes of television shows such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Petticoat Junction, The Twilight Zone, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, The Defenders, The Investigators, The Legend of Jesse James, Entourage, The Big Valley, The Time Tunnel, and Combat!.  

 

Ostracized by the Hollywood film studios due to his reputation for being a "difficult" actor, Hopper turned to photography in 1961 with a camera bought for him by his first wife Brooke Hayward. During this period he created the cover art for the Ike & Tina Turner album River Deep – Mountain High (released in 1966).He became a prolific photographer, and noted writer Terry Southern profiled Hopper in Better Homes and Gardens as an up-and-coming photographer "to watch" in the mid-1960s.Hopper's early photography is known for portraits from the 1960s, and he began shooting portraits for Vogue and other magazines. His photographs of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 civil-rights march in Selma, Alabama, were published. His intimate and unguarded images of Andy Warhol, Jane Fonda, The Byrds, Paul Newman, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Brown, Peter Fonda, Ed Ruscha, the Grateful Dead, Michael McClure, and Timothy Leary. 

"She was Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan – salon hostess, art patroness, writer and self-appointed savior of humanity. She was a woman of profound contradictions. She was generous. She was petty. Domineering and endearing," says the Historic Inn and Conference Center's site.

"Today as you approach the house of Mabel Dodge Luhan, it’s easy to see why some of the greatest minds of the 20th century were inspired here. Situated at the end of a quiet road not far from the center of town, the house appears much as it did in the days when Mabel admired her views of the sacred Taos Mountain from the third-story solarium."

"One can only imagine the tantalizing conversations that must have taken place within these walls. After all, Georgia O’Keeffe stayed here. So did D.H. Lawrence, Ansel Adams and Martha Graham, among many other notables," says the hotel's history.

The property on which the Mabel Dodge Luhan House sits contained a four-room adobe in 1918 when it was purchased for $1,500. Antonio Lujan supervised a crew from the Taos Pueblo who renovated and expanded the structure to roughly its present state. Thus began a famous era in the history of the American counterculture which continues to this day.

Visitors to the Mabel Dodge Luhan House quickly learn its history–or else come already knowing–eager to see the place described in the writings of D.H. Lawrence and lately in many of the world’s largest newspapers as interest in the lives of Tony and Mabel has once again become popular.

Los Gallos, as the house was named, represents a conjunction between an elite and progressive world community of well known artists and thinkers and perhaps one of the most enduring native societies in the western hemisphere – Taos Pueblo. The consequences of this union which formed around Tony and Mabel would be difficult to overestimate.

Before arriving in Taos, Mabel Dodge had become a prominent figure in the arts and society of New York City and Europe. Born to a wealthy family in Buffalo, New York, she entertained and supported many of the well-known artists, activists, writers and thinkers of her time. Her Salons were informal gatherings where people joined to dine and to discuss the new ideas of the century, often forming relationships and fomenting ideas which would have far-reaching influences. Guests of Mabel’s included Emma Goldman, Alfred Stieglitz, Margaret Sanger, John Reed and others of the political and artistic avant-garde.

When Mabel left New York to settle in Taos, marrying a full-blooded Taos Pueblo man by the name of Tony Lujan, it seemed as though the whole world was watching. During the 1930s New Yorker Magazine cartoons quipped about Mabel in Taos, while set designs for Shakespeare productions on Broadway were based on adobe architecture. Georgia O’Keeffe, Willa Cather, Ansel Adams and others found inspiration that would shape their lives’ work while visiting Tony and Mabel’s home. Carl Jung’s visits to the Taos Pueblo would influence mainstream conceptions of the “native mind,” while political wheels, set in motion by certain of Mabel’s friends like John Collier, would affect legislation to benefit Native American communities for generations to come. All of these events and many more can be traced at some point to Mabel and Tony’s commitment to one another and to the life they built in Taos.

Author Lois Rudnick in Utopian Vistas recognizes that “many who came to the Luhan House were at a critical point in their lives, physically, psychologically, or vocationally. For them, the house functioned as a kind of life crisis center breaking down and healing, making – and sometimes unmaking – love affairs and marriages. Because several visitors often stayed with the Luhans simultaneously, the opportunities for mentoring, cross fertilization, and feuding were enormously rich….”

"Throughout its history the Mabel Dodge Luhan House has served as a retreat, a center for personal growth, and a location that challenges those who dare to become part of its history. Those who have enjoyed its ambiance and those who are waiting to be introduced to the unique experience of the Mabel Dodge Luhan House can look forward to many more years in celebration of creativity, workshops in the arts, humanities and support of local cultural activities," says Mabel Dodge Luhan House history.

"Dennis Hopper discovered Mabel’s house while shooting the film Easy Rider. In 1970 he purchased Los Gallos from Mabel’s granddaughter Bonnie Evans, and left Los Angeles to live in Taos. He spent the next years editing his latest film The Last Movie. With a vision of establishing Taos as the American center of independent filmmaking, Hopper invited creatives from his sphere to stay at the “Mud Palace.” The Big House with its ten bedrooms provided the perfect venue for the cross-pollination of ideas. Paralleling Mabel’s movers and shakers of the 1920s, his visitors were an equally eclectic mixture. Many embodied the 1960s counterculture that Hopper referenced in Easy Rider. Among the more notable guests were musicians Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Bo Diddley, actors Jack Nicholson, Anthony Quinn and John Wayne, beat poet Alan Watts, and politicians George McGovern (who announced his candidacy for President at Hopper’s dining room table) and New Mexico governor David Cargo. Personages from Mabel’s era like Georgia O’Keeffe also dropped by. Dorothy Brett first visited Hopper to see what he had done to her friend’s house. She regaled him with stories of the good old days with Mabel, D.H. and Frieda Lawrence and other characters."

Hopper began working as a painter and a poet as well as a collector of art in the 1960s as well, particularly Pop Art. Over his lifetime he amassed a formidable array of 20th- and 21st-century art.

One of the first art works Hopper owned was an early print of Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans bought for $75. Hopper also once owned Warhol's Mao, which he shot one evening in a fit of paranoia, the two bullet holes possibly adding to the print's value. The print sold at Christie's, New York, for $302,500 in January 2011. 

Hopper died at his home in the coastal Venice district of Los Angeles, on May 29, 2010, at age 74. His funeral took place on June 3, 2010, at San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. His body was buried at the Jesus Nazareno Cemetery in Ranchos de Taos. 

 

 

Del Rio, Butch's bank building, Rockland,, and more

Thing of the past ...
Dolores, Colo., early 1930s, Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, from Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Collection, Center for Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College. 

Thing of the past ...
Drug store in downtown Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Created / Published: 2016-02-04.
Headings:
- United States--Colorado--San Miguel County--Telluride
- America
- Mining towns
- Downtowns
- Butch Cassidy
- Paul Newman
Genre: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
Notes:
- Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
- This building was once the San Miguel Valley Bank, site of the first bank robbery in 1889 by Butch Cassidy, a colorful outlaw made famous 80 years later in the Hollywood movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," in which Paul Newman depicted Cassidy.
- 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- 35842 (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 35842 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.35842
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017686325 

 Thing of the past ...
Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA (Farm Security Administration), to harvest and process sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association
Created / Published:1943 May.
Headings
- Mexicans--Employment--1940-1950
- Migrant agricultural laborers--1940-1950
- Railroad trains--1940-1950
- Sugar industry--1940-1950
- United States
Genre:Safety film negatives
Notes:
- Title and other information from print in lot.
- 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: owibatch6
- Film copy on SIS roll 0, frame 0.
- pp/aipsh
Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location: LC-USW33- 031868-C [P&P] LOT 906 (Location of corresponding print.) (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 8e01498 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8e01498
Library of Congress Control Number:2017872351

Thing of the past ...
Women's march
Date:January 1914.
Mounted members of the Colorado National Guard disperse men and women participants in a march to free Mother Jones and support the UMW Ludlow strike against CF&I, near the Post Office on Main Street in Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado.
Condition: corner of postcard torn, piece missing. Formerly F21802. Postcard stamp on back. Printed on back of postcard: "AZO". Title and "Trinidad" hand-written on back of postcard.
Denver Public Library Special Collections 

Thing of the past ...
Scene in school room in community building. San Luis Valley Farms, Colorado
Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
Created / Published: 1939 Oct.
Headings: - United States--Colorado--San Luis Valley
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: usf34batch3
- Film copy on SIS roll 21, frame 691.
Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
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 

Thing of the past ...
University of Northern Colorado gymnasium
between 1905 and 1920
Women exercise in the gymnasium at the University of Northern Colorado (formerly known as the State Normal School, Colorado Teacher's College, Colorado State College of Education, and Colorado State College) in Greeley, Colorado in Weld County.
From: The Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library 

Thing of the past ...
Cavalry remnant of "Meeker" massacre 1. Buckskin - 2. Pe-Ve-Ge - 3. Nanice - 4. Severo / / F. Gonner, photo.
Photograph shows Ute men in traditional dress on horseback in front of teepees.
Gonner, F. (Frank), photographer
Created / Published: [Colorado], [1904]
Headings:
- White River Massacre, Colo., 1879
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Colorado--1900-1910
- Ute Indians--Colorado--1900-1910
- Warriors--Colorado--1900-1910
- Horseback riding--Colorado--1900-1910
- Tipis--Colorado--1900-1910
Genre: Photographic prints--1900-1910
Notes:
- H43325 U.S. Copyright Office.
- Title from item.
- Publication date based on copyright statement : "Feb. 27, 1904."
Medium:1 photograph : gelatin silver print on cardboard mount ; sheet 38 x 45 cm, mount
Call Number/Physical Location: LOT 13010 [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: ds 06801 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.06801
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015645526 

Thing of the past ...
About 1875
Georgetown Colorado
A parade in Georgetown, Colorado, looking north on Taos Street from Sixth (Alpine) Street. The parade is led by two men on horses wearing ribbons on their chests, followed by a brass band lead by a uniformed drum major, carriages, and mounted flagbearers. Men, women, and children watch from the board sidewalks; one man leans on a crutch. A man on the corner carries a walking stick and wears a boater. The storefront behind him displays photographs and a triangular display case. The Cushman Block is on the left; the schoolhouse, built in 1874, is further down the street.
Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library 

Thing of the past ...
Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge motor car number 6
Creator: Richardson, Robert W.
Date: 1952
Motor car, from front end, close view; Work Goose switching gondola. (The Work Goose never carried passengers or freight. It was used in maintenance of way service.) Photographed: Dolores, Colorado, September 5, 1952. 

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Scene on the Western Slope of Wolf Creek Pass, Colo. Photo taken between 1907 and 1914. Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo., Publisher and Photographer. Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Collection. Center for Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College.

Thing of the past ...
Lizard Head
McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: [1900-1910]
Rock formation Lizard Head on Lizard Head Pass, Colorado; copy of an original attributed to McClure.
Original Material Found in Collection
Louis Charles McClure papers, Denver Public Library Special Collections 

Thing of the past ...
Cascade on the Colo. Midland Ry.
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: [1890-1919]
Cascade, Colorado, reached via Colorado Midland Railway; shows dirt road leading past post office to Ramona Hotel, a three-story wooden frame hotel with surrounding porch, verandas on every floorand a Byzantine dome.
Louis Charles McClure papers 

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An-te-ro, war chief of the U-in-ta Utes
Hillers, John K., 1843-1925, photographer
Created / Published:[United States : publisher unnamed, 1874]
Genre:
Stereographs--1870-1880
Albumen prints--1870-1880
Notes:
- No. 112.
- Title from item.
- Forms part of series: U.S. topographical and geological survey of the valley of the Colorado River of the west, by J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson.
- Forms part of series: Indians of the Colorado Valley, U-In-Ta Utes, living in the U-in-ta Valey, on the western slope of the Wasatch Mountains in Utah.
- Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997.
- Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.
Medium: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen.
Call Number/Physical Location: LOT 13577, no. 18 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id:
stereo 1s01648 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s01648
stereo 2s01648 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.2s01648
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006676633 

Thing of the past ...
Typical Western family / Samuels & Mays, Meeker, Colo.
Created / Published: c1902.
Headings:
- Indians of North America--Colorado--1900-1910
- Ute Indians--1900-1910
- Families--Colorado--1900-1910
Genre:
Portrait photographs--1900-1910
Group portraits--1900-1910
Photographic prints--1900-1910
Boudoir card photographs--1900-1910
Notes:
- H22764 U.S. Copyright Office.
- No. 9.
- Title transcribed from item.
- Copyright by Samuels and Mays.
Medium:1 photographic print on boudoir card.
Call Number/Physical Location:LOT 12896 [P&P;]
Digital Id: cph 3c12566 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c12566
Library of Congress Control Number: 94516036 

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Dolores, Colo., Photo date between 1890 to 1910. View of Main Street in Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado; shows snow, mud, businesses. Men and women pose on a boardwalk by storefronts and a sign: "Hotel."
Colorado Historical Society, Denver and Rio Grande collection.  

Thing of the past ...
Wild Flower Excursion, Colorado on Colorado Midland
Created / Published:[between 1912 and 1926

Headings:
- Railroads--1910-1930
- United States--Colorado
Genre:
Postcards--1910-1930
Notes:
- Title from item.
- Associated names: H.H.T. Co.
- Numbers printed on card: 4121.
- Source not identified.
Medium: 1 print : photomechanical print ; sheet 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)
Call Number/Physical Location:PCRD 1 - Colorado, no. 4 [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 1a01411 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pcrd.1a01411
pcrd 2a01411 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pcrd.2a01411
Library of Congress Control Number:2025663085  

Thing of the past ...
Grand Valley
Creator: Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935.
Denver & Rio Grande and Rio Grande Junction railroad depot and frame buildings in the town of Grand Valley (Parachute) in Garfield County, Colorado. Men stand near boxes, crates and milk jugs on the platform of the depot. A sign on the depot reads: "Western Union Telegraph & Cable Office." Girls or women are in the street near a horse-drawn wagon and a timber commercial building with signs that read: "Doll Bros and Smith, General Merchandise," "Gasoline, Polarine [?] Supplies." The "Grand Valley News" building is near a D.& R.G. freight car on tracks.
Date: [between 1910 and 1920?]
History Colorado, Original photographs collection

 

Thing of the past ...
Palmer Lake, 1912, Main Street, McIntyre's, edge of Pillsbury and Deer Park, and Rockland Hotel in background.

Thing of the past ...
Group of people posed with railroad car behind them, Denver, Colorado
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
Created / Published: 1903?
Headings:
- Clothing & dress--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910
Genre: Photographic prints--1900-1910
Notes:
- Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
Medium:1 photographic print.
Call Number/Physical Location: LOT 9809 [item] [P&P]
Digital Id: cph 3c05571 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c05571
Library of Congress Control Number: 92515076