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[Three illustrations: Denver City, K.T.; The Rocky Mountain News Offic...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1859 Aug. 20, p. 186.

[Photograph of shop window display of Lincolniana.]

Shop window of Tritch Wholesale Hardware Sporting Goods. Denver. Frank H. Bare, President

Map of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway and connections.

Map of western Colorado and New Mexico showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, counties, mineral areas, roads, and railroads. Includes completed and proposed lines. General information for touri... More

[Francis Schlatter (faith healer) serving free lunch in rain, Denver]

Photo copyrighted by W.A. White. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Floral pavilion, City Park, Denver, Col

No. 5455. Copyright by C.H. Graves. On mount: Supply and distributing offices: Philadelphia, Naperville, Ill., New York, London, Hamburg.

[CHERRELYN, a horsecar on country road outside Denver, Colo.]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Colorado.

[Denver Mountain Park, Golden, Colorado. View through trees overlookin...

No. 28034. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Judge Lindsey in chambers, Juvenile Court of Denver, Colo.

Judge Lindsey and six other people seated around table. Public domain photograph of an official meeting, group of people, discussion, office table, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Part of the Vast Billboard Campaign of the Woman's Party. Putting up b...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of unidentified woman putting up billboard with bucket and broom. Billboard reads: "'Women of Colorado, you have the vote. Get it for women of the nation by voti... More

Kitchen with stove bought last winter from Denver salesman. Great West...

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Vesuvius Furnace, Denver vic., Lincoln County, North Carolina

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Appointed tub thumper for Uncle Sam. Washington, D.C., Sept. 6. Ben M....

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior of sheep barn, stockyards, Denver, Colorado

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Driving sheep into stockcars for shipment to eastern packing plant. St...

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Interior of sheep barns, stockyards, Denver, Colorado

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Loading sheep into stock cars at stockyards. Denver, Colorado

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Sheep are driven into pens at railroad for shipment. Stockyards, Denve...

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Loading sheep into freight cars, stockyard, Denver, Colorado

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A black and white photo of a group of people in a pen, Arthur Rothstei...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Loading fat lambs on narrow gauge railway for shipment to Denver marke...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Stockyards. Denver, Colorado - safety film negatives, Library of Congr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army tent manufacture. Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Col...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Denver, Colorado - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Butte, Montana. State and local officials get together at the scrap sa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War production drive committee of technical experts. The war productio...

Title continues, left to right: John L. Savage, Chief Designing Engineer, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado; Dr. Robert F. Blanks, Chief of Testing Laboratories, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colora... More

Red Rocks Amphitheater above Denver, Colorado

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Lamp detail, Byron R. White U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado

Architect: Tracy, Swartwout, and Litchfield. Built 1910-1916. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit li... More

IHOP Restaurant, Denver, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Presidential candidate Barac...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

Vice-Presidential Candidate Joe Biden and Presidential candidate Barac...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to the audience at the De...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

Presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks to the audience at the Demo...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

It's nearly a full house at Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies ...

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

Lagoon in the Shofu-en Japanese Garden (Garden of Pines and Wind in En...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moffat Station, 2101 Fifteenth Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Moffat Station was the Denver terminus of the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railroad. David Moffat, an early Denver pioneer and businessma... More

1615-1617 Market Street (Commercial Building), Denver, Denver County, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wells Fargo Butterfield Stage Station, Denver, Denver County, CO

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS CO-36-C-2 Building/structure dates: ca. 1882 Subsequent Work

Lincoln Park Homes, West Colfax Avenue & Marispoa Street, Denver, Denv...

Significance: The Lincoln Park Homes complex is one of Colorado's earliest public housing projects. One of three such projects planned by the Denver Housing Authority soon after the agency's formation in 1938, ... More

Lincoln Park Homes, West Colfax Avenue & Marispoa Street, Denver, Denv...

Significance: The Lincoln Park Homes complex is one of Colorado's earliest public housing projects. One of three such projects planned by the Denver Housing Authority soon after the agency's formation in 1938, ... More

Wellenkotter Ranch, Barn, 112th Avenue & Watkins Road, Denver, Denver ...

Significance: The Wellenkotter Ranch is representative of the historical development of agriculture in west-central Adams County during the late nineteenth century. The ranch, covering about 1,100 acres at its ... More

Nineteenth Street Bridge, Spanning South Platte River at Nineteenth St...

Significance: Completed in 1888, the bridge is the oldest surviving wrought iron bridge and oldest vehicular bridge still in use within Colorado. Although a once common truss type, the two span Pratt through br... More

West Wazee Street Warehouse District, Brecht Candy Company, 1333 Wazee...

Significance: This commercial structure was designed in 1909 by the Denver architectural firm, Biscoe & Hewitt for the Brecht Butcher Supply Co. of Kansas City, MO. The structure was leased to the Autsin Candy ... More

Ziegler Farm, House, North side of Seventy-second Avenue, west of Huds...

Significance: The Ziegler Farm is an example of 1920s and 1930s vernacular farm architecture. The farm buildings provide examples of Colorado plains dairy farm architecture during the period. As a complex, the ... More

Highline Extension Canal, Denver, Denver County, CO

Linear resource covering a wide area. See documentation for exact location of extant features. Significance: The canal system helped promote the agricultural settlement of the west-central Adams County. The pr... More

Highline Extension Canal, Denver, Denver County, CO

Linear resource covering a wide area. See documentation for exact location of extant features. Significance: The canal system helped promote the agricultural settlement of the west-central Adams County. The pr... More

Littleton Denver & Rio Grande Western Depot, 2199 West Littleton Boule...

Significance: Architecturally, the D & RGW Depot is characteristic of the railroad style of building developed in the Victorian Age. It is one of the oldest railroad depots in Colorado and one of the few surviv... More

Altman Farm, House, East side of Buckely Road, 0.5 mile south of Seven...

Significance: The Altman Farm is a significant example of early 1900s rural adaptations to the evolving economic needs and changing methods of livestock husbandry. The major farm outbuilding, the barn, offers a... More

Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman Street, Denver, Denver Count...

Survey number: HABS CO-41 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman Street, Denver, Denver Count...

Survey number: HABS CO-41 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Denver, Colorado. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company, Incorporated, Building No. 4, 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

A story of home - Public domain music sheet scan

Wellenkotter Ranch, Main House, 112th Avenue & Watkins Road, Denver, D...

Significance: The Wellenkotter Ranch is representative of the historical development of agriculture in west-central Adams County during the late nineteenth century. The ranch, covering about 1,100 acres at its ... More

Wellenkotter Ranch, Main House, 112th Avenue & Watkins Road, Denver, D...

Significance: The Wellenkotter Ranch is representative of the historical development of agriculture in west-central Adams County during the late nineteenth century. The ranch, covering about 1,100 acres at its ... More

Photographs of the Byron G. Rogers Federal Building and U. S. Courthou...

Images show exterior and interior views of federal building and courthouse in Denver, Colorado. Details include courtrooms, windows, halls, stairs, sculpture and architectural decoration.

City & County Building, Civic Center, Denver, Denver County, CO

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS CO-68 Building/structure dates: ca. 1933 Initial Construction

City & County Building, Civic Center, Denver, Denver County, CO

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS CO-68 Building/structure dates: ca. 1933 Initial Construction

Altman Farm, Barn, East side of Buckely Road, 0.5 mile south of Sevent...

Significance: This 1923 barn is constructed of crude cast-in-place concrete up to the second floor, horizontal wood siding over wood frame on the second floor, and a plank-truss roof system with original wood s... More

Farrel Farm, 7381 North Washington Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: The Farrel Farm is a distinctive representative of an early truck farm and one of the few good example remaining. Historically, this region developed into an important locale for truck farming to ... More

Members of the fifth conference of National Park Superintendents and r...

Photographer's address: Denver. List of persons accompanies this photo. Possibly forms part of Mather collection.

Hotel Metropole & Broadway Theater, 1756 Broadway Street, Denver, Denv...

Significance: The Metropole was a significant 1890s luxury hotel, designed by an unrenowned architect from Chicago, J.W. Wood. It is distinguished by its Richardsonian Romanesque Revival west facade and grand a... More

Twentieth Street Viaduct, Spans Platte River Valley between Thirty-thi...

See also Union Pacific Railroad Warehouse, HABS No. CO-128 Significance: It is the longest of Denver's viaducts. Its length grew from the need to cross not only the Platte River but also Denver's extensive rail... More

Beierle Farm, House, Hudson Road & Ninety-sixth Avenue, Denver, Denver...

Significance: As a complex, the current Beierle Farm offers an example of the work process and flow of a wheat and grain farm and its methods of operation. In particular the grain bins and scale house offer exa... More

Beierle Farm, House, Hudson Road & Ninety-sixth Avenue, Denver, Denver...

Significance: As a complex, the current Beierle Farm offers an example of the work process and flow of a wheat and grain farm and its methods of operation. In particular the grain bins and scale house offer exa... More

O'Brian Canal, South Platte River Drainage Area Northest of Denver, Br...

Significance: The ditch is part of one of the largest irrigation systems in northeastern Colorado, and has served as an integral part of the local farm economy. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this ... More

Saint Luke's Hospital, Nurses' Home, 501 East Nineteenth Avenue, North...

Survey number: HABS CO-195-A Building/structure dates: 1938 Initial Construction

Broadway Bridge, Spanning Cherry Creek on Broadway at Speer Boulveard,...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Colorado & Southern Railway Denver Roundhouse Complex, Seventh Street,...

Significance: The complex is a significant property associated with the history of railroading in Colorado. It represents the last of Denver's once numerous roundhouses, and includes one of the few remaining ex... More

Colorado & Southern Railway Denver Roundhouse Complex, Seventh Street,...

Significance: The complex is a significant property associated with the history of railroading in Colorado. It represents the last of Denver's once numerous roundhouses, and includes one of the few remaining ex... More

Delgany Street Railroad Bridge, Spanning Cherry Creek at Delgany Stree...

Significance: The bridge is a single span, wrought and cast iron through Pratt truss and is one of the few remaining representatives of this once-common bridge type in Denver. It is technologically significant ... More

Delgany Street Railroad Bridge, Spanning Cherry Creek at Delgany Stree...

Significance: The bridge is a single span, wrought and cast iron through Pratt truss and is one of the few remaining representatives of this once-common bridge type in Denver. It is technologically significant ... More

Midwest Steel & Iron Works Company, 25 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver ...

Significance: The company is one of Denver's oldest and largest metal fabricators. Since the late 19th century Midwest had produced structural and ornamental components for buildings and engineering structures ... More

Midwest Steel & Iron Works Company, 25 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver ...

Significance: The company is one of Denver's oldest and largest metal fabricators. Since the late 19th century Midwest had produced structural and ornamental components for buildings and engineering structures ... More

Midwest Steel & Iron Works Company, 25 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver ...

Significance: The company is one of Denver's oldest and largest metal fabricators. Since the late 19th century Midwest had produced structural and ornamental components for buildings and engineering structures ... More

Midwest Steel & Iron Works Company, 25 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver ...

Significance: The company is one of Denver's oldest and largest metal fabricators. Since the late 19th century Midwest had produced structural and ornamental components for buildings and engineering structures ... More

Farrel Farm, Farmhouse, 7381 North Washington Street, Denver, Denver C...

Survey number: HABS CO-59-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1901 Initial Construction

Arch of Welcome, 17th St. E.S.E. from railway station, Denver, Colo.

J141432 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. U-118683. No. (1)-10610.

Fourteenth Street Viaduct, Fourteenth Street at Wazee Street, Denver, ...

Significance: Built in 1898. Of all the multiple-span wagon/tram viaducts built in Denver in the 19th century, only the 14th St. Viaduct remains in use. With its 63 spans of steel stringers, it is the only long... More

Denver City Cable Railway Company, Lawrence & Eighteenth Streets, Denv...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Skyline Urban Renewal Area, Larimer Square, 1400 Block, Larimer Street...

Survey number: HABS CO-50-A Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Highline Canal, Sand Creek Lateral, Beginning at intersection of Peori...

Survey number: HAER CO-43-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Highline Canal, Sand Creek Lateral, Beginning at intersection of Peori...

Survey number: HAER CO-43-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Highline Canal, Sand Creek Lateral, Beginning at intersection of Peori...

Survey number: HAER CO-43-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...

Significance: It was the first building in Colorado designed specifically for the education of the physically handicapped. It was free of barriers to the handicapped and provided programs developed to meet the ... More

Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...

Significance: It was the first building in Colorado designed specifically for the education of the physically handicapped. It was free of barriers to the handicapped and provided programs developed to meet the ... More

Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...

Significance: It was the first building in Colorado designed specifically for the education of the physically handicapped. It was free of barriers to the handicapped and provided programs developed to meet the ... More

Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...

Significance: It was the first building in Colorado designed specifically for the education of the physically handicapped. It was free of barriers to the handicapped and provided programs developed to meet the ... More

Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 South Sheridan Boulevard, Denver, D...

Survey number: HALS CO-2 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 16000810

Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 South Sheridan Boulevard, Denver, D...

Survey number: HALS CO-2 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 16000810

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Stree...

Significance: Designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the Empire Building is a significant example of the later works of one of Denver's most prominent architects, and represents early low-rise commercial construction i... More

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Stree...

Significance: Designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the Empire Building is a significant example of the later works of one of Denver's most prominent architects, and represents early low-rise commercial construction i... More

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Bounded by East Colfax to south, Peoria S...

Survey number: HABS CO-172 Building/structure dates: 1918-1984 Initial Construction

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Bounded by East Colfax to south, Peoria S...

Survey number: HABS CO-172 Building/structure dates: 1918-1984 Initial Construction

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Bounded by East Colfax to south, Peoria S...

Survey number: HABS CO-172 Building/structure dates: 1918-1984 Initial Construction