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 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 reop...
Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy...
Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Road into Idaho Springs, Colorado
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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"
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Creede, Colorado. Lead and silver mining in a former "ghost town"
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Camp Carson, Colorado. White tractor and specially designed semi-trail...
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Camp Carson, Colorado. The 122 Infantry greek Battalion passing the re...
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[Door at home of Ann Bonfoey Taylor, Denver, Colorado]
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[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 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, 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 &...
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 ...
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...
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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Submerged Quench Incinerator, 3940 feet South ...
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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 ...
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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Thionyl Chloride Railroad Car Warming Shed, 11...
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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 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
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,...
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, Este...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ritter Ranch, Implement Shed, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO
Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Spruce Tree Point, Mesa Verde Administrative District, Cortez, Montezu...
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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
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
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, 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
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 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
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 ...
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, 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
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 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 ...
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, ...
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, 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 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...
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, 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. 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...
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 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, 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, 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 2,50...
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
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 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, 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, 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 & ...
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 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 ...
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
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
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
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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
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, 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...
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
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 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...
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 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 ...
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 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
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-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 ...
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, 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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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, 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 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 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 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
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 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 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...
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 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'...
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 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 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
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 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 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