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
A block of Main Street in Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community hig...
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
Roadside view of Rocky Mountain peaks, aflame with fall colors, outsid...
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
Part of a vintage steam train and water tower at South Park City Museu...
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
Steam locomotive and coal tender in on a roundhouse turntable in the t...
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 Jefferson Community Church in Jefferson, 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
Hulks of old automobiles rust outside a onetime gas station in La Jara...
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 climbs from the ...
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
Bison herd in Weld County, Colorado, near the Wyoming line
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
Ruins of Lowry Pueblo, one of the settlements of more than 24 ancient ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 2000, more than 145,000 acres of that plain have been designated as the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. Credit line: ... More
Dusk approaches along a dusty road in Sedgwick County, near Julesburg,...
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 house with delicate gingerbread trim in Silverton, the seat of San J...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At the northern terminus of the Durango-Silverton narrow-gauge railway line, Silverton is now (2015) mostly an Old West tourist destin... More
Stream in Eldorado Canyon State Park in Boulder 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
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
Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calv...
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
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 ewe cleans her newborn lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is ...
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
The Hotel De Paris Museum, open for tours by arrangement only in Georg...
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
Colorful guest lodge in Vail Village in the heart of the ski-resort to...
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
(Pretend) sharpshooting at a quite civilized Wild West show, part of t...
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 setting sun in springtime washes over a ranch scene in the Mancos ...
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
Hotel pond at the ski-resort town of Vail, Colorado. Unlike most other...
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
Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks." The Park Range is a spectacular series... More
A wave and a turn at the annual Cattlemen's Days rodeo in Gunnison, Co...
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
Distant view of Steamboat Springs, 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
Overview of snowy Steamboat Springs, 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
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 newborn lamb, already marked for identification, at the Ladder Lives...
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
Longhorn cattle attract a crowd at the National Western Stock Show's k...
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
Ranch hand Chad Ferguson and his dog approach a bridge across the Litt...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Ladder name derives from neither the set of climbing rungs nor a family member of that name, but from the ranch's "lazy ladder" br... More
A ewe washes her newborn at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding ...
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
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
Dusty's Steaks, once a prominent restaurant on road out of Trinidad, C...
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
Interior of an old, stone cabin from the days of Spanish rule on the J...
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
Guests get a warm yet brisk dip in a hotel pool in Vail, Colorado. 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
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
Wild horses stand in a high-desert field near an isolated mesa in sout...
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
At the Charles C. Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Univer...
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
Skating in the ski village below the slopes in Vail, Colorado, a 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
Malloy's cut - Sherman Station, Laramie Range (Andrew J. Russel)
Photograph shows a man standing next to Central Pacific railroad tracks at Malloy's cut in the Laramie Mountains. Illus. in: Sun pictures of Rocky Mountain scenery, with a description of the geographical and g... More
Starkville, Colorado: Making coke - filling the ovens and taking out t...
H74034 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 12427. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Mines; Industry Coa... More
Lady of Letters - theatrical playbill, public domain image
Baker Theatre (venue) A playbill (program or brochure that is distributed to theater patrons prior to or during a performance that contains information about the play, its cast, and crew, as well as other deta... 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
Nestled far up 'mong the eternal hills and snow, Silver Plume, Colo., ...
View from hillside of Silver Plume, Colo. H1942 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 11653.
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
Trail Ridge Road, Between Estes Park & Grand Lake, Estes Park, Larimer...
Significance: Trail Ridge Road has national, state, and local significance as an engineering feat -the highest continuous highway in the United States and for its role in the development of the Rocky Mountain N... More
Trail Ridge Road, Between Estes Park & Grand Lake, Estes Park, Larimer...
Significance: Trail Ridge Road has national, state, and local significance as an engineering feat -the highest continuous highway in the United States and for its role in the development of the Rocky Mountain N... More
Portland harbor and city from Congress Square Hotel
Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10469, 10468, 10467, 10466, 10465, 10464, 10463. RRC and R negatives photographed from slightly different vantage point. "G 8638 L," "G 863... More
Trail Ridge Road, Between Estes Park & Grand Lake, Estes Park, Larimer...
Significance: Trail Ridge Road has national, state, and local significance as an engineering feat -the highest continuous highway in the United States and for its role in the development of the Rocky Mountain N... More
Trail Ridge Road, Between Estes Park & Grand Lake, Estes Park, Larimer...
Significance: Trail Ridge Road has national, state, and local significance as an engineering feat -the highest continuous highway in the United States and for its role in the development of the Rocky Mountain N... More
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Booster Pump Station, End of West Bushnel...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-CP Building/structure dates: 1918-1920 Initial Construction
Kuhlman-Periman Ranch, County Route 28, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO
Significance: The Kuhlman-Periman Ranch, consisting of numerous main and subsidiary structures was an important focus of ranching activity at this lower end of the Dolores River Valley. The main house, construc... More
Union Pacific Railroad Warehouse, 1711-1735 Nineteenth Street, Denver,...
Significance: The Union Pacific Railroad warehouse represents the height of the railroad involvement in the bustling freight business in Denver and the positive impact of that business on the growth of Denver. ... More
Bridge across the Colorado River, at Yuma, Ariz.
Constructing railroad bridge, Arizona. Photo by E. Conklin; Continent Stereoscopic Co., Publishers. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Open Air Tuberculosis Ward, West Penningt...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-CJ Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1920 Subsequent Work
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Open Air Tuberculosis Ward, West Penningt...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-CJ Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1920 Subsequent Work
S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company, Incorporated, Building No. 5, 1805 So...
Significance: The significance of the site arises from its role in processing various metals since 1918. At various periods of time, molyixlerum compounds, radium, uranium compounds, and rhenium were produced a... More
Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, We...
Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St.... More
Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, We...
Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St.... More
Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, We...
Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St.... More
Central City, Central City, Gilpin County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-203 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Central City, Central City, Gilpin County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-203 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Central City, Central City, Gilpin County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-203 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tivoli-Union Brewery, West Denver Turn-Halle, Thirty-first Street, Den...
Survey number: HABS CO-26-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1882 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000469
Opera House, Central City, Gilpin County, CO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS CO-36-C-3 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000246
Middle Cañon of the Kanab - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpap...
No. 7. Written on back: Kanab Creek Series. Part of series: U.S. topographical and geological survey of the valley of the Colorado River of the west, by J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson. Part of series: Stillwater Cañon.
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Flagpole, Charlie Kelly Boulevard, North ...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-DN Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Gymnasium, Northeast Corner of East Harlo...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-AV Building/structure dates: 1940 Initial Construction
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Bachelor Officers' Quarters/Officers' Clu...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-CR Building/structure dates: 1922-1923 Initial Construction
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Bachelor Officers' Quarters/Officers' Clu...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-CR Building/structure dates: 1922-1923 Initial Construction
Bluebird Dam, On Ouzel Creek 7 miles west of Allenspark, Allenspark, B...
Significance: Completed ca. 1923, it is locally significant to Boulder County as an intact example of an early 20th century, and relatively uncommon, arch concrete dam. The dam documents an important engineerin... More
Department of Energy, Grand Junction Office, Building No. 12, 2597 B3/...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Ritter Ranch, Barn, Old Dolores Highway, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS CO-38-A
Hortense Bridge, Spanning Chalk Creek on State Highway 162, Nathrop (h...
Significance: The bridge is technologically significant as a rare existing example of a very common early bridge, a timber/iron Queenpost truss. It is historically significant as an early span associated with a... More
Roubideau Bridge, Spanning Gunnison River at County Road G50R, Delta, ...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Roubideau Bridge, Spanning Gunnison River at County Road G50R, Delta, ...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Roubideau Bridge, Spanning Gunnison River at County Road G50R, Delta, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, railroad structure, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Spruce Tree Terrace, Chapin Mesa, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO
Significance: The hospital is associated with Aileen Nusbaum, wife of Mesa Verde Superintendent Jesse L. Nusbaum, who saw the need for modern medical care in Mesa Verde National Park. Survey number: HABS CO-71
Vigil Plaza, Church, Weston, Las Animas County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-56 Public domain photograph of a church building, chapel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) Naturita Mill, 3 miles Northwest...
Significance: From the early 1940s to the end of the Cold War, the mill played a prominent role in national and international events related initially to the U.S. Army's WWII Manhattan Project, and later to the... More
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Goop Mixing & Filling Tank, December Seventh A...
Survey number: HAER CO-21-H Public domain scan of oil tank, gas tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Nurses' Quarters, Southeast Corner of Wes...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-BN Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Nurses' Quarters, Southeast Corner of Wes...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-BN Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Nurses' Quarters, Southeast Corner of Wes...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-BN Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Main Hospital Building, Charlie Kelly Bou...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N396 Survey number: HABS CO-172-DM Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Army Reserve Center, 510 feet South of Decembe...
Survey number: HAER CO-21-CD Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Transformer House, North Page Street, imm...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-AU Building/structure dates: 1944 Initial Construction
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Building 253, North side of East O'Neil A...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-C Building/structure dates: 1921 Initial Construction
Sound Democrat Mill, Placer Creek Valley, Silverton, San Juan County, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Sound Democrat Mill, Placer Creek Valley, Silverton, San Juan County, ...
Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Building 256, North side of East O'Niell ...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-F Building/structure dates: 1921 Initial Construction
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Laboratory Building, 510 feet South of Decembe...
Survey number: HAER CO-21-AO Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Camp 23rd Arkansas River - Public domain scenic drawing
Drawings shows a tent and three covered wagons camped on the Arkansas River, lower right. Horses and cows graze near the banks of the river. Horses and oxen graze to the left. Jenks' party left the Santa Fe Tra... More
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Power House, Northwest Corner of East Har...
Survey number: HABS CO-172-AR Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cherry Creek Railroad Bridge, Spanning Cherry Creek, north of Delgany ...
Significance: The bridge is a single span wrought iron or steel through Pratt truss and is one of the few remaining examples of this once-common bridge type in Denver. The bridge features a unique, decorative p... More
The Upper Twin Lake - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More
McGraw Ranch, Osage-Columbine Cabin, McGraw Ranch Road, Estes Park, La...
Significance: The Osage-Columbine Cabin is one of the five cabins built in 1936, when the McGraw Ranch was converted to a guest ranch operation. The log siding and stone veneer foundation give the structure a r... More
McGraw Ranch, Osage-Columbine Cabin, McGraw Ranch Road, Estes Park, La...
Significance: The Osage-Columbine Cabin is one of the five cabins built in 1936, when the McGraw Ranch was converted to a guest ranch operation. The log siding and stone veneer foundation give the structure a r... More
Camp life - Public domain World War One sheet music
music by J.E. Brown ; words by Jessie Loraine Ripper. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff nota... More