Part of the courtyard at Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero Co...
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
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... More
Swink Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River (County Road 24.5), Swink, Otero...
Survey number: HAER CO-37 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR
Sign on municipal building. La Junta, Colorado
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... More
Swink Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River (County Road 24.5), Swink, Otero...
Survey number: HAER CO-37 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
May 1911. 7 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Town of La Luz, La Luz Canyon Creek, Alamogordo, Otero County, NM
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1938 Survey number: HABS NM-141
Woodruff Block, 22-24 West First Street, La Junta, Otero County, CO
Significance: One of the first buildings in downtown La Junta to be built of material other than wood. First occupants were a dry good store by the name of A.C. Draper & Company and a drugstore called Joy & Com... More
Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colorado
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
Swink Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River (County Road 24.5), Swink, Otero...
Survey number: HAER CO-37 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR
Chain stores on main street of La Junta, Colorado
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
A long, passing freight train in rural Otero County, 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
Woodruff Block, 22-24 West First Street, La Junta, Otero County, CO
Significance: One of the first buildings in downtown La Junta to be built of material other than wood. First occupants were a dry good store by the name of A.C. Draper & Company and a drugstore called Joy & Com... More
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... More
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... More
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... More
Swink Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River (County Road 24.5), Swink, Otero...
Survey number: HAER CO-37 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR
Double House, Cienega (historical), Otero County, NM
Survey number: HABS NM-82 Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... More
Swink Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River (County Road 24.5), Swink, Otero...
Survey number: HAER CO-37 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR
Mineral spring. White Sands project. Otero County, New Mexico
Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Woodruff Block, 22-24 West First Street, La Junta, Otero County, CO
Significance: One of the first buildings in downtown La Junta to be built of material other than wood. First occupants were a dry good store by the name of A.C. Draper & Company and a drugstore called Joy & Com... More
Old Fort Bent, La Junta, Otero County, CO
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fort tower, stone walls, fortification, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Living quarters of Mexicans at La Junta, Colorado
Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Woodruff Block, 22-24 West First Street, La Junta, Otero County, CO
Significance: One of the first buildings in downtown La Junta to be built of material other than wood. First occupants were a dry good store by the name of A.C. Draper & Company and a drugstore called Joy & Com... More
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... More
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... More
Swink Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River (County Road 24.5), Swink, Otero...
Survey number: HAER CO-37 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR
Chain stores on main street of La Junta, Colorado
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A barn with a message in rural Otero County, Colorado, near the histor...
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
Town of La Luz, La Luz Canyon Creek, Alamogordo, Otero County, NM
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1938 Survey number: HABS NM-141
Woodruff Block, 22-24 West First Street, La Junta, Otero County, CO
Significance: One of the first buildings in downtown La Junta to be built of material other than wood. First occupants were a dry good store by the name of A.C. Draper & Company and a drugstore called Joy & Com... More
Woodruff Block, 22-24 West First Street, La Junta, Otero County, CO
Significance: One of the first buildings in downtown La Junta to be built of material other than wood. First occupants were a dry good store by the name of A.C. Draper & Company and a drugstore called Joy & Com... More
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... More
Swink Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River (County Road 24.5), Swink, Otero...
Survey number: HAER CO-37 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR
Swink Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River (County Road 24.5), Swink, Otero...
Survey number: HAER CO-37 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR
Old Fort Bent, La Junta, Otero County, CO
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
The 1915 U.S. Post Office in La Junta, the seat of Otero County, 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
A cattle guard, one of thousands, maybe even millions, in America's ca...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The tubes are passable for vehicles but not cattle or horses. So an otherwise fenced ranch can have several openings for free human ac... More
This road through Otero County, Colorado, follows the original Mountai...
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Aug 1893. 2 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Jan 1900. 4 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
May 1911. 7 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Apr 1911. 12 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More
Courtyard and interior structures at Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta...
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 parapet and its view at Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero...
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
Stone marker of the route of the Santa Fe Trail, an important trade ro...
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
Aug 1901. 5 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Apr 1911. 12 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More
Woodruff Block, 22-24 West First Street, La Junta, Otero County, CO
Significance: One of the first buildings in downtown La Junta to be built of material other than wood. First occupants were a dry good store by the name of A.C. Draper & Company and a drugstore called Joy & Com... More
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Manzanola, Otero County, Colorado
Aug 1909. 1 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Fowler, Otero County, Colorado
Sep 1909. 1 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sign on municipal building. La Junta, Colorado
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Diesel locomotives pull a long string of tanker cars through 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
Stone marker of the route of the Santa Fe Trail, an important trade ro...
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 Fox Theater building in downtown La Junta, the seat of Otero Count...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally built in 1912 as a playhouse, it was purchased in 1939 by the Fox Theater chain and converted to a movie theater with 800 s... More
Stone marker of the route of the Santa Fe Trail, an important trade ro...
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
Sep 1906. 7 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Swink, Otero County, Colorado
Jun 1914. 2 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Apr 1911. 12 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Apr 1911. 12 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
May 1886. 1 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Man who once owned the land being used for the White Sands project. Ot...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More
Courtyard and interior structures at Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta...
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 entrance to Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Col...
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
Somewhat vegetation-covered path through the Comanche National Grassla...
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
May 1911. 7 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Apr 1911. 12 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
Sep 1906. 7 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Swink Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River (County Road 24.5), Swink, Otero...
Survey number: HAER CO-37 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR
Swink Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River (County Road 24.5), Swink, Otero...
Survey number: HAER CO-37 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR
Dainty wildflowers make an appearance, at least briefly in springtime,...
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
Sep 1906. 7 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
May 1911. 7 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
May 1911. 7 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
May 1911. 7 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Pioneer wagons Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colo...
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
This is not a weed! It's a wildflower, a prairie thistle, in Otero Cou...
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Swink, Otero County, Colorado
Jun 1914. 2 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Aug 1889. 2 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
Sep 1906. 7 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Canyon and mesa. Otero County, New Mexico
Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Living quarters of Mexicans at La Junta, Colorado
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
A long, passing freight train in rural Otero County, 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
Still-perceptible wagon ruts at a place called Iron Springs from the S...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The shorter route led through what was called Indian Territory, and a longer, but safer, "Mountain Route" through what is now southeas... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Jan 1900. 4 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Jan 1900. 4 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado
Aug 1901. 5 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Apr 1911. 12 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Apr 1911. 12 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More
Town of La Luz, La Luz Canyon Creek, Alamogordo, Otero County, NM
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1938 Survey number: HABS NM-141
Manzanola Bridge, State Highway 207, spanning Arkansas River, Manzanol...
Significance: The bridge has functioned as a locally important crossing over the two greatest rivers in Colorado: the Colorado and the Arkansas. It is one of the earliest rigid-connected vehicular trusses in Co... 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
Stone marker of the route of the Santa Fe Trail, an important trade ro...
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Aug 1889. 2 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from La Junta, Otero County, Colorado
Apr 1911. 12 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More