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Denver, Colorado. Workers giving ship steel a thorough rinsing after it has been "pickled" in the highest steel "pickling" vat in the world. The "pickling" operation, giving steel a sulphuric bath to remove mill scale, is a common sight at Seaboard Shipyards, and is something unique at the mile-high Denver fabricating plant and an illustration of American industrial ingenuity

Denver, Colorado. Workers giving ship steel a thorough rinsing after i...

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A black and white photo of two men digging a hole. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two men digging a hole. Office of War Infor...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Lead. Creede, Colorade where old lead mines have been reopened. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago, and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort

Production. Lead. Creede, Colorade where old lead mines have been reop...

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Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy's unique shipbuilding program here in this mile-high city--the world's largest city not on a navigable waterway. Even though he has never seen an ocean or a ship larger than the pleasure launch on Denver's city park lake, the steel worker behind this acetylene torch is no less a shipbuilder! He is one of the workers in the eight Denver fabricating firms turning out hull parts in a 56 million dollar which means more escort vessels for Uncle Sam's Navy--vessels made in Denver and assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard 1,300 miles away

Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy...

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Road into Idaho Springs, Colorado

Road into Idaho Springs, Colorado

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Grand County, Colorado. Haystack and mountain

Grand County, Colorado. Haystack and mountain

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Creede, Colorado. Lead and silver mining in a former "ghost town"

Creede, Colorado. Lead and silver mining in a former "ghost town"

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Creede, Colorado. Lead and silver mining in a former "ghost town"

Creede, Colorado. Lead and silver mining in a former "ghost town"

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Camp Carson, Colorado. White tractor and specially designed semi-trailer which holds up to 260 soldiers is used for transportation on the camp ereservation. The bus contains 700 square feet of floor space and seats approximately 100 men. The rest ride standing up

Camp Carson, Colorado. White tractor and specially designed semi-trail...

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Camp Carson, Colorado. The 122 Infantry greek Battalion passing the reviewing stand at their activation ceremonies

Camp Carson, Colorado. The 122 Infantry greek Battalion passing the re...

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[Door at home of Ann Bonfoey Taylor, Denver, Colorado]

[Door at home of Ann Bonfoey Taylor, Denver, Colorado]

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[Ann BonfoeyTaylor wearing a formal dress, standing in doorway of a room at her Denver home]

[Ann BonfoeyTaylor wearing a formal dress, standing in doorway of a ro...

Photograph taken for Vogue magazine photo shoot for May 1967 issue. Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Vogue, "American Westerns, 1967: Mrs. Vernon J. Taylor, Jr.: A relaxed perfecti... More

[Ann Bonfoey Taylor, full-length portrait,  standing next to aspen tree, in snow, wearing a ski outfit including a military dress helmet and goggles, Colorado]

[Ann Bonfoey Taylor, full-length portrait, standing next to aspen tre...

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 (third row, left)

[Guest's breakfast tray with bird's egg salt and pepper shakers, napkin and bouquet of flowers, at Ann Bonfoey Taylor's home, Colorado]

[Guest's breakfast tray with bird's egg salt and pepper shakers, napki...

Photograph taken for Vogue magazine photo shoot for May 1967 issue. Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Vogue, "American Westerns, 1967: Mrs. Vernon J. Taylor, Jr.: A relaxed perfecti... More

Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, Weighing Office & Station, 3 miles Northwest of Naturita, between Highway 141 & San Miguel River, Naturita, Montrose County, CO

Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, Weighing Office &...

Significance: The VCA Naturita Mill Office Building was constructed in 1960-61 as part of an effort to reconstruct the facility as an experimental uranium and vanadium ore concentrating facility. Between 1958 (... More

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Overhead Bomb Transport Rack, 1580 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 860 feet West of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Overhead Bomb Transport Rack, 1580 feet South ...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-AI Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Club Building, 1320 feet South of Ninth Avenue; 330 feet West of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Club Building, 1320 feet South of Ninth Avenue...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-DV Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Submerged Quench Incinerator, 3940 feet South of Ninth Avenue; 930 feet West of Road NS-4, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Submerged Quench Incinerator, 3940 feet South ...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-DU Public domain photograph of industrial building, landscape, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Storage Warehouse for Incendiary Clusters, 1659 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 2060 feet West of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Storage Warehouse for Incendiary Clusters, 165...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-AY Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, General Purpose Warehouse, 1980 feet South of Ninth Avenue; 3230 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, General Purpose Warehouse, 1980 feet South of ...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-DP Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Thionyl Chloride Railroad Car Warming Shed, 1100 feet South of December Seventh Avenue; 120 feet East of D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Thionyl Chloride Railroad Car Warming Shed, 11...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-BI Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A most unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado

A most unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The long and eclectic mural on the levee walls first appeared as whimsical graffiti in the 1970s and is said to be the longest, if not... More

West Wazee Street Warehouse District, Denver Dry Goods Company Warehouse, 1201-1209 Wazee Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

West Wazee Street Warehouse District, Denver Dry Goods Company Warehou...

Significance: The building was designed in 1901 by prominent Denver architect, Frank Edbrooke as a warehouse for the Denver Dry Goods Company... Survey number: HABS CO-70-D Building/structure dates: 1901 Init... More

A summertime look at the Colorado ski resort of Vail

A summertime look at the Colorado ski resort of Vail

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

Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum, in the old El Paso County Courthouse, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum, in the old El Paso County Courthouse,...

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

William Allen White Cabins, Upper Sleeping Cabin, Bear Lake Road, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO

William Allen White Cabins, Upper Sleeping Cabin, Bear Lake Road, Este...

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Ritter Ranch, Implement Shed, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

Ritter Ranch, Implement Shed, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

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Spruce Tree Point, Mesa Verde Administrative District, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

Spruce Tree Point, Mesa Verde Administrative District, Cortez, Montezu...

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Colorado's Delores River Valley in autumn

Colorado's Delores River Valley in autumn

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

Trout fishing in Colorado's rushing Crystal River

Trout fishing in Colorado's rushing Crystal River

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

Long's Holiday Motel sign, Gunnison, Colorado

Long's Holiday Motel sign, Gunnison, 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 and sheep statue, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Lamp and sheep statue, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorad...

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

Side view, Federal Building and U.S. Custom House, Denver, Colorado

Side view, Federal Building and U.S. Custom House, Denver, Colorado

Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built 1931-1937. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs ... More

Gravestone in a tiny cemetery outside Bent's Old Fort, near La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

Gravestone in a tiny cemetery outside Bent's Old Fort, near La Junta i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Occasionally referred to as Fort William, the fort is a 1976 reconstruction of an 1833 fort built by William and Charles Bent, along w... More

The Sports Authority "Sportscastle" in Denver, Colorado

The Sports Authority "Sportscastle" in Denver, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally built as a Chrysler automobile dealership in 1925, the Sportscastle is now (2015) a large sporting-goods store. Credit line... More

The 1892 Italianate building housing the El Rancho Tavern and Central Hotel on Main Avenue in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The 1892 Italianate building housing the El Rancho Tavern and Central ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

Corridor. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Corridor. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gran...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. n 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M ... More

The signature clock tower at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado

The signature clock tower at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Because of its unique origins as a military fort turned American Indian boarding school turned state public school, Fort Lewis College... More

A lovely old cookstove in the main cabin at the Sheriff Ranch at the headwaters of the Colorado River near Hot Sulphur Springs in Grand County, Colorado

A lovely old cookstove in the main cabin at the Sheriff Ranch at the h...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Once a vast cattle spread, the ranch has downsized in recent years. Registered in 1881 with 1,350 acres with as many as 250 head of He... More

Dilapidated outhouse at the Holzwarth Site in Rocky Mountain National Park, within Grand County, Colorado

Dilapidated outhouse at the Holzwarth Site in Rocky Mountain National ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. John Holzwarth Sr., a German immigrant, moved to the Kawuneeche Valley in 1917 after his job as a saloon-keeper in Denver came to an a... More

Lobby stairs. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Lobby stairs. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, ...

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

Inside view of the Colorado Capitol dome in Denver. On the outside, the distinctive gold dome is covered in real gold leaf, first added in 1908 to commemorate the Colorado Gold Rush

Inside view of the Colorado Capitol dome in Denver. On the outside, th...

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

View of the rushing Animas River from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train as it chugs (at 13 miles an hour) through the San Juan Forest in northern La Plata County, Colorado

View of the rushing Animas River from the Durango & Silverton Narrow G...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route was originally opened in 1882 by... More

Patricia Neal Gray, one of the handful of summertime-only residents of Crystal, Colorado, stands before her home

Patricia Neal Gray, one of the handful of summertime-only residents of...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Crystal is a virtual ghost town in a valley on the upper Crystal River in Gunnison County, on a precipitous, a four-wheel-drive-only r... More

Long idle parts of the giant Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill, founded in 1881, in Pueblo, Colorado

Long idle parts of the giant Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill, founde...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The company was founded by Cleve Osgood, a New York "robber baron," as titans of industry were then known. In his private rail car, he... More

Roof solar panels. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Roof solar panels. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courtho...

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

A young Spiderman, alias Ryan Emerson Alvizo, cavorts in the mile-long 16th Street pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado

A young Spiderman, alias Ryan Emerson Alvizo, cavorts in the mile-long...

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

The "Galloping Goose" rail car outside the Rio Grande Southern Railroad depot, built in 1923 in Dolores, a true railroad town in Montezuma County in far-southwest Colorado

The "Galloping Goose" rail car outside the Rio Grande Southern Railroa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Inside is a railroad museum, whose most notable and curious artifact sits on the tracks outside. It's the Galloping Goose No. 5, the f... More

The 1938 James Vernon Phelps House, remodeled in 1984 in Pueblo, Colorado. The neo-Pueblo Revival house of stucco over brick has long incorporated the family's showcase of southwestern art

The 1938 James Vernon Phelps House, remodeled in 1984 in Pueblo, Color...

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

Exterior detail, Federal Building and U.S. Custom House, Denver, Colorado

Exterior detail, Federal Building and U.S. Custom House, Denver, Color...

Architect: James A. Wetmore. Built 1931-1937. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs ... More

One of the most elaborate of approximately 150 (out of originally 2,500 or so) carved wooden carousels in America, the Kit Carson County Carousel in the eastern Colorado town of Burlington, on the Kansas border

One of the most elaborate of approximately 150 (out of originally 2,50...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sixth of 74 carousels manufactured by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company between 1904 and 1933, this is a three-row, stationary (th... More

The ornate Pueblo County Courthouse in Pueblo, Colorado

The ornate Pueblo County Courthouse in Pueblo, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Roman Classical-style building, designed by New Yorker Albert Ross, and executed from 1908 to 1912 in brick and white sandstone, w... More

Structures on the parapet of Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

Structures on the parapet of Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Oter...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Occasionally referred to as Fort William, the fort is a 1976 reconstruction of an 1833 fort built by William and Charles Bent, along w... More

Bathroom. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Bathroom. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gran...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. n 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M ... More

Skylight. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Skylight. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gran...

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

An Old West saloon that little ones can look down upon at Tiny Town & Railroad, an amusement park in Morrison, in Jefferson County, Colorado, not only dedicated to children but also scaled to their dimensions. The miniature village displays more than 100 16-scale buildings and a 15 inch-gauge miniature railway in which park visitors can ride

An Old West saloon that little ones can look down upon at Tiny Town & ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Denver businessman George Turner, a friend of western showman Buffalo Bill Cody, began building a miniature town for his daughter in 1... More

Re-created classroom at the one-room Living Springs School at the Comanche Crossing historical museum in the eastern Colorado town of Strasburg. Living Springs was a stage stop and ranch on Comanche creek in the area. The school was built in 1891

Re-created classroom at the one-room Living Springs School at the Coma...

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

Ray Vertovec, a longtime livestock farmer turned tavern owner, stands at the bar at Eiler's Place, a popular watering hole in the Pueblo, Colorado, neighborhood

Ray Vertovec, a longtime livestock farmer turned tavern owner, stands ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Settled by Slovenian and Croatian immigrants who came to the United States from what was then Czechoslovakia to work in Pueblo's steel... More

IHOP Restaurant, detail, Quebec Plaza, Denver, Colorado

IHOP Restaurant, detail, Quebec Plaza, Denver, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: New; Eating & drinking establishments. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Marg... More

Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado

The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA or Air Force), is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of commissioned officers for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately nor... More

Pool, Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Pool, Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Glenwood Springs was originally known as Defiance Colorado. Defiance, Colorado was established in 1883, a camp of tents, saloons and brothels with an increasing amount of cabins and lodging establishments. It w... More

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, chugs through the San Juan Mountains in the Colorado county of the same name

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

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

One of horse owner, and horse lover, Deborah Butterfield's sculptures in her 2015 "The Nature of Horses" exhibit at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado

One of horse owner, and horse lover, Deborah Butterfield's sculptures ...

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

Rides, including a glittering Ferris Wheel, at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado

Rides, including a glittering Ferris Wheel, at the Colorado State Fair...

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 San Juan Mountain meadow in autumn in Conejos County, Colorado, near the New Mexico border

A San Juan Mountain meadow in autumn in Conejos County, Colorado, near...

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

Sign for Spangler's carpet store in downtown Pueblo, Colorado

Sign for Spangler's carpet store in downtown Pueblo, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The more interesting component of this photograph, however, is the tall, steel-clad building with diamond-shaped openings in the dista... More

Mountain view along the "Million Dollar Highway" in Ouray County, between Silverton and Ouray, high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

Mountain view along the "Million Dollar Highway" in Ouray County, betw...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though the entire 25 miles between those old mining towns carries the nickname, it is the 12 miles immediately south of Ouray through ... More

The old Leiker Mercantile (or small-town department store) in the town of Holly, near the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado

The old Leiker Mercantile (or small-town department store) in the town...

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

An old wrecker service's garage in Walsenburg, Colorado

An old wrecker service's garage in Walsenburg, 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

The autumn sun shimmers over the Colorado River near Kremmling in Grand County, Colorado

The autumn sun shimmers over the Colorado River near Kremmling in Gran...

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

Autumn in the San Juan Mountains of Conejos County, Colorado, near the New Mexico border

Autumn in the San Juan Mountains of Conejos County, Colorado, near the...

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

Remnants of the old Eureka Mine in what is now the ghost town of Gladstone, high above Silverton, Colorado, on the dirt Alpine Loop

Remnants of the old Eureka Mine in what is now the ghost town of Glads...

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 Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, chugs through a trestle in the San Juan Mountains in the Colorado county of the same name

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

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

Balanced Rock in the Garden of the Gods, a public park, but also an international tourist attraction, packed with red-rock formations in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Balanced Rock in the Garden of the Gods, a public park, but also an in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Created during a geological upheaval along a natural fault line millions of years ago, the area was first called Red Rock Corral. Then... More

Montrose Public Library in Montrose, Colorado

Montrose Public Library in Montrose, 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

Sailboat slips on Lake Granby in Grand County, Colorado, the third-largest body of water in the state

Sailboat slips on Lake Granby in Grand County, Colorado, the third-lar...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Lake Granby It was created by the erection of Granby Dam in 1950 as part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. The lake is bounded by ... More

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, chugs through a trestle in the San Juan Mountains in the Colorado county of the same name

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

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

Scenery at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Scenery at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, ca...

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

Alyce Boden, matriarch of the Handlebars Restaurant and Saloon in Silverton, Colorado

Alyce Boden, matriarch of the Handlebars Restaurant and Saloon in Silv...

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

View of the high Rocky Mountains from a precipitous, rock-strewn road from the town of Marble in the Crystal River Valley up to what is now the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

View of the high Rocky Mountains from a precipitous, rock-strewn road ...

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 Cumbres & Toltec Scenic (C&TS) Railroad steam train, having left high desert around Antonito in Conejos County, Colorado, near the New Mexico border and climbed into the San Juan Range of the Rocky Mountains, chugs along a wide plateau

A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic (C&TS) Railroad steam train, having left hig...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The C&TS is a three-foot narrow gauge heritage railroad running between Chama, New Mexico and Antonito. It runs over 10,015-foot Cumbr... More

A long irrigation sprinkler, and even longer dirt road, near the town of Granada in Prowers County, Colorado

A long irrigation sprinkler, and even longer dirt road, near the town ...

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 Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, chugs through the San Juan Mountains in the Colorado county of the same name

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

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

Scenery at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Scenery at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, ca...

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 Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, rounds a high San Juan Mountains precipice in Las Animas County, Colorado

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

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

White Mountain Apache Gilbert Redsleeves, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

White Mountain Apache Gilbert Redsleeves, photographed in Pueblo, Colo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A carpenter and retired railroad employee, Mr. Redsleeves made the turquoise jewelry, containing actual bear claws, that he is wearing... More

Colorado River view between the towns of Rifle and Palisade in Mesa County, Colorado

Colorado River view between the towns of Rifle and Palisade in Mesa Co...

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

Climber at the Ouray Ice Park, a human-made ice climbing venue in a natural gorge within walking distance of the city of Ouray, Colorado. It is home to more than 200 named ice and mixed climbs. The park, which is free to all who use it, has become one of the premier ice climbing venues in the world over its more than two decades of operation

Climber at the Ouray Ice Park, a human-made ice climbing venue in a na...

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

Tiny patches of wildflowers in Hovenweep National Monument in southwestern Colorado's Montezuma County

Tiny patches of wildflowers in Hovenweep National Monument in southwes...

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

Gore Creek in the ski resort of Vail, Colorado, west of Denver

Gore Creek in the ski resort of Vail, Colorado, west of Denver

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

Bullfight at the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza, part of the National Western Stock Show festivities in Denver, Colorado. In this event, the bull is not harmed and lives to perform again

Bullfight at the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza, part of the National West...

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

The unique TellurideMountain Village gondola above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

The unique TellurideMountain Village gondola above Telluride, once a m...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More

A cove where ancient civilizations' petroglyphs (rock engravings) have been discovered on the JE Canyon Ranch, a former working cattle ranch turned 50,000-acre conservation laboratory for the Nature Conservancy, which bought the little-known but scenery-and-biodiversity-rich site in 2015

A cove where ancient civilizations' petroglyphs (rock engravings) have...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Especially unknown to the outside world, including even most Coloradans, is the ranch's steep, stunning Purgatoire (sometimes called P... More

View of the South Platte River as it crosses from Douglas into Jefferson County, Colorado, in Waterton Canyon, south of Denver. The 6.2-mile trail along the canyon, which is managed by the Denver Water utility and the U.S. Forest Service, is one of fitness-conscious Coloradans' favorite hiking, biking, and horseback-riding venues

View of the South Platte River as it crosses from Douglas into Jeffers...

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

The "Cellar 12" filtration room at the MillerCoors Brewery, the world's largest single brewing operation and one of the Denver area's perpetually popular tourist attractions, in Golden, Colorado. Using hundreds of large, circular, cotton inserts, the machines trap any stray particles from beer before it is bottled or canned

The "Cellar 12" filtration room at the MillerCoors Brewery, the world'...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Following mergers in the early 2000s, operations of the former Coors Brewing Company, founded in 1873 by German immigrants Adolph Coor... More

A ewe and her newborn lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and cattle mainly in Colorado

A ewe and her newborn lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, based litera...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Winter scene east of Aspen, Colorado, on the highway that leads to Twin Lakes over Independence Pass

Winter scene east of Aspen, Colorado, on the highway that leads to Twi...

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

Some of the high Rocky Mountains that surround Telluride, Colorado

Some of the high Rocky Mountains that surround Telluride, 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

The post-sunset "glow" of tethered hot-air balloons at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in the former mining town turned ski resort, but not when the Spring festival is in full swing

The post-sunset "glow" of tethered hot-air balloons at the annual Tell...

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

Lon Robertson and his granddaughters Thyrrai Thorson, left, and Bre Thorson chat ouside the Kim Outpost general store in Kim, a ranching town with that is a notable success story in a lightly populated section of Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado

Lon Robertson and his granddaughters Thyrrai Thorson, left, and Bre Th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. By the early 2000s, Kim was, in the words of one resident, "about dried up and blowed away." But then a group of residents and area ra... More

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