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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]
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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:
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.)
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.
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
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
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