Map of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway and connections.
Map of western Colorado and New Mexico showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, counties, mineral areas, roads, and railroads. Includes completed and proposed lines. General information for touri... More
Guanajuato, Mexico. Cityscape photograph
"5248" and "W.H. Jackson Photo. Co. Denver, Colo." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 08478. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
U.S.Battleships Colorado & Class. Warship photograph collection
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago Special, Burlington Route, Colorado view, photochrome print po...
Detroit Publishing Co., no. 80116. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Floral pavilion, City Park, Denver, Col
No. 5455. Copyright by C.H. Graves. On mount: Supply and distributing offices: Philadelphia, Naperville, Ill., New York, London, Hamburg.
[CHERRELYN, a horsecar on country road outside Denver, Colo.]
Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Colorado.
Topographic map of Mesa Verde National Park : Montezuma County, Colora...
Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Surveyed in 1910-1911." Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC copy: Stamped on 508B for copy 1; 437B for copy 2 in lower left margin. Includes inset showing ... More
14 year old Henry in the fourth grade of the Rockwood Place School. He...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Family of John H. Children 8, 10, 13, 15 yrs. old pulling and picking ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Part of the Vast Billboard Campaign of the Woman's Party. Putting up b...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of unidentified woman putting up billboard with bucket and broom. Billboard reads: "'Women of Colorado, you have the vote. Get it for women of the nation by voti... More
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Elmo Temple, Chaffee County, Colo...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
Loading sheep into freight cars, stockyard, Denver, Colorado
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Women workers in sugar beet field. Adams County, Colorado
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Girl worker in potato field, Rio Grande County, Colorado
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Irrigation gate and canal near Ordway, Colorado
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Railway station at Ophir, Colorado
Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Miners sitting on decorated car during Labor Day celebration, Silverto...
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 availabl... More
General store. Ophir, Colorado
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Train coming up the valley on a narrow gauge track, Ouray County, Colo...
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 availabl... More
Loading baggage of train passenger into automobile. Montrose, Colorado
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 availabl... More
Sign, Montrose, Colorado
Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Loading fat lambs on narrow gauge railway for shipment to Denver marke...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Main street of Craig, Colorado. A new and thriving boom town
Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Russell Gulch, ghost mining town near Central City, Colorado
Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Creede, Colorado. Lead and silver mining in a former "ghost town"
Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Science and research. Studies of non-coking coals. William S. Landers,...
Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Production. Lead. Leadville, where lead concentrates produced at Creed...
Public domain photograph of mountains, winter, snow, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Denver, Colorado
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Camp Carson, Colorado. Greeks of the 122 Infantry battalion vow to ave...
Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Ann Bonfoey Taylor, head-and-shoulders portrait, in snow, wearing a s...
Photograph taken for Vogue magazine photo shoot for May 1967 issue. Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). PR 06 CN 651 C12 F8, sheet 16 (fourth row, left)
Log Cabin Motel sign, Montrose, Colorado
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More
Lamp detail, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado
Architect: Tracy, Swartwout, and Litchfield. Built 1910-1916. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit li... More
Old cabin in the last hometown of legendary western scout Christopher ...
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 Photograp... More
Glass enclosed lobby. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Cour...
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More
The Tops Motel in Idaho Springs, Colorado, which, even in 2015, is tou...
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 Photograp... More
Lagoon in the Shofu-en Japanese Garden (Garden of Pines and Wind in En...
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 Photograp... More
Meadow and Rocky Mountain view in Gunnison County, Colorado
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More
The Dalton Ranch Golf Club in Durango, Colorado
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 Photograp... More
Rear view of Tino Trujillo, left, of Pueblo, Colorado, and Skuya Fast ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Trujillo is a Mescalaro Apache, whose tribe is based in New Mexico; Ms. Fast Horse's tribe is the Lakota Sioux, centered in South Dako... More
Majestic view from the old, one-way, dirt Fall River Road in Rocky Mou...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The towering Front Range is the first mountain range encountered by white settlers years ago, and travelers today, moving west along t... More
Colorful supply of fish lures and hooks at the Cutthroat Anglers fly-f...
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 Photograp... More
Glen Eyrie castle, an English Tudor-style home built in what is now Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built by General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of the city. This grand home, with 17 guest rooms and two dining rooms, is locate... More
A portion of the blacksmith's shop at South Park City Museum, a collec...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum, in Park County's "high country," is a faithful reconstruction of a mining town from the days of the Colorado Gold Rush and... More
A colorful, winged hippo? hot-air balloon ascend shortly after dawn, w...
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 Photograp... More
Puka the chocolate lab (labrador retriever) stays close to his soccer ...
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 Photograp... More
A Georgetown Loop Railway, scenic steam train returns from its short 2...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More
Brewhouse kettles holding 482 barrels of beer apiece at the MillerCoor...
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 Photograp... More
A spectacular fireworks show caps off the "Warmth of Winter" exhibitio...
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 Photograp... More
Lone wolf at the Wild Animal Sanctuary, a 720-acre animal refuge housi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More
A Pike's Peaker Crossing the Plains ; Crossing the Platte
Illustrations show scenes relating to the Colorado gold rush including two men, next to a wagon train, on their way to Pike's Peak; a covered wagon with "Pikes Peak" on it; and a wagon train crossing the Platte... More
Attendance at the Jeffers School on November 30, 15. 15 in attendance ...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4060. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More
Views in the cañons of the Colorado River and among the Aztec cities o...
People and horse in front of adobe and rock structure. No. 51. Scan requestd of Neg. 94190-B. This right side view lacks the large curved scratch.
Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark C...
Significance: It is a National Historic Landmark, an American Civil Engineering Landmark, and the focus of an historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The dam was constructed betwee... More
Rocky Flats Plant, Bounded by Indiana Street & Routes 93, 128 & 72, Go...
Significance: Established in 1951, it was a top-secret weapons production plant. The plant manufactured triggers for use in nuclear weapons and purified plutonium recovered from retired weapons (called site ret... More
Rocky Flats Plant, Bounded by Indiana Street & Routes 93, 128 & 72, Go...
Significance: Established in 1951, it was a top-secret weapons production plant. The plant manufactured triggers for use in nuclear weapons and purified plutonium recovered from retired weapons (called site ret... More
Ames Hydroelectric Plant, Ames, San Miguel County, CO
Significance: In 1890-91 L.L. Nunn built the world's first single-phase AC power transmission system at Ames in order to power the nearby Gold King Mine's stamp mill. The plant operated under a head of 320 feet... More
A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family...
Public domain photograph of a home, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A burro train bringing gold from the mines near Ouray, Colorado
H87987 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1535. Copyright by W.S. Smith.
Bird's eye view of Golden, Colo. co. seat of Jefferson County, 1882
Perspective map not drawn to scale. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 68 Available also through the Library of Congress We... More
[Mount Holy Cross] / TMoran.
25359T U.S. Copyright Office. Remarque: deer.
Cathedral Spires view, photochrome print postcard.
Title on inventory list: Cathedral Spires, Garden of the Gods. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51009". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is availabl... More
Colorado. Burros at silver mine view, photochrome print postcard.
Title on inventory list: Burros at silver mine. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51051". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl... More
At work in the stope of the California mine, Eagle River Canyon, Color...
Gold miners at work in mine.
Branding Mavericks
5 cattle held by ropes being branded. Colorado or Utah?. H56777 U.S. Copyright Office Photo by F.M. Steele. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Utah?; Colo.?; Cow... More
Bird's eye view of Denver, Colorado, 1908.
Perspective map not drawn to scale. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 66 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1; 710/1
[Boys at drill (marching), Golden Industrial School, Denver, Colorado:...
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Education Military; Reform schools.
West Wazee Street Warehouse District, 1143 Wazee Street (Commercial Bu...
Significance: This building is one of the earliest surviving structures in the West Wazee Street District. The structure was originally used as a forge where farm equipment was manufactured. Historical maps ind... More
(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a g...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
School #9, District #3. This was the attendance on December 3, and sev...
In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4067. Hine no. 4068. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More
Migrant potato pickers' tents. Rio Grande County, Colorado
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 availabl... More
Town abandoned because of continuous crop failures. Keota, Colorado
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 availabl... More
Fred Schmeeckle, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, on his d...
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 availabl... More
Harvesting sugar beets, Adams County, Colorado
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 availabl... More
Old residence. Telluride, Colorado
Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Residential district of Durango, Colorado
Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Abandoned gold mill at Ophir, Colorado
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Driving herd of fat lambs into corrals along the narrow gauge railroad...
Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Band and clowns at Labor Day cele...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
Residential district of Durango, Colorado. Durango is trading, shippin...
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 availabl... More
Railroad station and liquor store at Ophir, Colorado. A narrow gauge r...
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 availabl... More
Russell Gulch, ghost mining town near Central City, Colorado
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 availabl... More
Boulder [i.e., Hoover] Dam, Colo. [i.e., Arizona and Nevada]
Photograph shows power station towers and cables at the Hoover Dam, Arizona and Nevada. BC 5398. Photograph possibly from the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation.
[Lincoln Avenue in Steamboat Springs, Colorado]
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Production. Lead. Reopened mine workings near Creede, Colorado. Creede...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Windswept desert of southwest Colorado
Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Windmill silhouetted at sunset in eastern Colorado
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Four Winds motel sign, Durango, Colorado
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More
Marker at the Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden, Colorado
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini found the property, which had two barns and a springhouse but no reliable source of water, on the side o... More
A wagon whose owner sells various kinds of jerky, or lean meat (in thi...
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 Photograp... More