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Colorado -- History -- Pictorial works.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 105 Collections and/or Records:

A collection of fifty six photographic negatives relating to Buffalo Bill: a modern bison herd, the bison in history, primitive animals associated with the bison, General George A. Custer

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 145
Scope and Contents

The collection includes views of Buffalo Bill memorabilia, the Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum and grave site on Lookout Mountain, Colorado, the bison herd at the City and County of Denver's Daniels Park, Douglas County, Colorado, and images pertaining to the history and antecedents of the modern bison.

Dates: 1967

A Silverton family's album

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 252
Scope and Contents

Candid and posed views of an unidentified family in Silverton, San Juan County Colorado. Images of friends, family members (men, women, children), houses, interiors, and the town of Silverton as well as snapshots of trips, picnics, and hikes to other rural Colorado towns, Denver, and Golden.

Dates: between 1897 and 1898

A trip through the Black Canyon: by J.E. Pelton, J.A. Curtis, M.F. Hovey, E.B. Anderson, and Will Torrence

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 264
Scope and Contents

Views of a boat trip, in Colorado, down the Gunnison River through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison made by J.E. Pelton, J.A. Curtis, M.F. Hovey, E.B. Anderson, and Will Torrence. Images of the river, camp sites, rapids, portages, wrecked boats. A few images of spectators on the canyon rim and of Montrose, Colorado.

Dates: 1900

Al Bachman slide presentations collection

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 154
Scope and Contents Ten slide presentations. Show no. 1, "Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps:" images and narration on gold and silver booms between 1850 and 1900 in the Aspen, Leadville and Silverton regions. Images of houses, stores, saloons, railroads and mines. Show no. 2, "Evolution of a Hobby:" explains the narrator's hobbies of photography, camping, fishing, and fly-tying, and how they led to an interest in ghost towns. Images of Carson City, Telluride, and Ophir Canyon. Show no. 3, "The First 3000...
Dates: 1960-1979

Anita Finn Collection: a Colorado tour

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 34
Scope and Contents

One photobox of 127 nitrate negatives, 6 photographic postcards, 15 photographic prints of Colorado from 1941. None of the negatives or photographic prints are identified; the postcards have identification.

Dates: 1941

Annie E. Blake Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WH56
Scope and Contents

Collection contains two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about Colorado pioneer days and settlers and about Mrs. Blake's Steinberger relatives. Loose items include financial records and mainly concern Steinberger family. Some photographs housed in repository's photographic collection.



Dates: 1864-1924

Arthur Cramer Photographs and Field Notes

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 165
Scope and Contents

Views of the effects of grazing on habitat on National Forest lands in Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota. Images of cattle and sheep, overgrazing, damaged vegetation, invasive species, erosion, reseeding efforts, insect control efforts, and game animal conditions.

Dates: between 1946 and 1952

Automobile trip from Denver to Los Angeles

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 256
Scope and Contents Images of an automobile trip from Denver to Los Angeles, California undertaken in January 1913 by Roy S. Thompson of Topeka, Kansas, and Louis Wecker and Harold Kountze of Denver, Colorado. Views of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Includes photos of automobiles and roads, car repairs and tire changes, Pueblo, Colorado, an automobile ferry across the Colorado River at Ehrenburg, a dam, "Brayton Com'l Co.," a Post Office and hotel, ostriches, "Mecca Post Office," people at the...
Dates: between 1913 January and 1927

Axel Sjögren photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 13
Scope and Contents

Views of Colorado, Denver, unidentified scenery, the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, mining, and scenery possibly in Sweden.

Dates: between 1892 and 1894?

B.J. Ochsner Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 114
Scope and Contents

73 b/w photographic prints of scenic views of the Durango area and Southern Colorado, many on the Durango-Silverton highway. Titles and identification and photographer's signature on verso of most prints. A few of the photographic prints are stained and show wear.

Dates: circa 1930-circa 1951

California South West

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 226
Scope and Contents

Album contains 49 albumen prints by Charles W.J. Johnson, Charles R. Savage, William Henry Jackson and one or more unknown photographers showing California, Utah, and Colorado.

Dates: between 1880 and 1890?

Charles Briggs Beach: to whom this book, wherein do appear some of my friends and recollections of my youth, is dedicated

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 295
Scope and Contents

A family photo album with snapshots of Colorado, New York and an unidentified lake. Views of family members, vacations, and houses. Many images from probably Colorado College in Colorado Springs; views of students, activities, and actors in costume.

Dates: between 1890 and 1900?

Charles Ryland Collection of Colorado Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 143
Scope and Contents Views of the Uintah Railway in Colorado or Utah. Images of electric trains and an accident on the Denver and Interurban electric railroad between Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Views of construction, and touring and racing automobiles, on the Pikes Peak road in El Paso County, Colorado. Views of the Holly & Swink Railway. Miscellaneous images of railroad locomotives, passenger and freight trains, depots and stations, street railroads and trolley cars, and buses in Colorado. Views of...
Dates: 1895-1950

Charles S. Lillybridge Photo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 282
Scope and Contents

The majority of the images are views of people, landscapes, and buildings in Colorado and Denver.

Dates: between 1890 and 1929?

Class of 1924, Oakley Consolidated Schools: "Labor conquers all"

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 269
Scope and Contents

Oakley Consolidated Schools high school photo album with 16 identified portraits, the students wear caps and gowns. The school district was probably in eastern Colorado.

Dates: 1924

Cliff dwellings, Spalding

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 1
Scope and Contents

Views of Native American (Anasazi) ruins at Mesa Verde, Colorado, Ute, Navajo, and Hopi Indians, landscape images of Colorado, and the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park.

Dates: 1880-1900

Clifford Allen Betts Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WH964
Scope and Contents Collection contains personal papers: correspondence, financial papers, genealogy, clippings and photographs; professional papers: correspondence, diaries and journals, organizations, subject files, clippings, photographs, publications, and awards. Photograph album (180) (87 photographic prints): views of the Moffat Tunnel under construction by the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad company with images of railroad employees include kitchen staff, construction workers, and managers; program;...
Dates: 1830-1989; Majority of material found in 1920-1979

Clow Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WH2032
Scope and Contents Collection contains history and genealogy of the Clow family; original photographs (two photo negatives, five tintypes, albumen prints, collodion printing-out paper prints, and gelatin silver prints); studio portraits and snapshots of David Clow Sr., his wife Mary Ann Clow and their children and some of their descendants. Represented in the collection are; David Clow, II, Nancy Anne Clow, Richard Love Clow, Edward Clow, Archie Clow, Lee R. Clow, Edda Clow, Mary Clow, Wallace Clow, Britty...
Dates: 1834-1976

Colorado

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 18
Scope and Contents

Stereoscopic views of Colorado. Images include towns, people, and geographic features.

Dates: between 1890 and 1910?

Colorado album and Panama views

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 280
Scope and Contents

The album contains unidentified family snapshots from Colorado Springs, rural Colorado, and unidentified views probably taken in the United States. The loose photographic prints show the Panama Canal during and after construction. Images of cranes, railroads, steam shovels, ship locks, laborers, earth moving, dikes, explosions, battleships, the Pacific Fleet, tug boats, and Panama City.

Dates: between 1900 and 1920?

Colorado & Southern Railway photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 401
Scope and Contents

Views on the Colorado and Southern Railway in Jefferson County, Park County, Summit County, and Lake County, Colorado. Images include railroad trains, the South Platte River, railroad stations, towns, and views of scenery. Most images show snow.

Dates: ca 1927

Colorado and Utah album

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 199
Scope and Contents

View of Denver, Colorado, Colorado Springs and environs, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: ca 1900

Colorado Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 126
Scope and Contents

One photobox containing 25 b/w photographic prints and one pamphlet containing biographical information. All images are identified. Some of the photographic prints are dry mounted. Several duplicate photos. 13 photographic prints are oversized.

Dates: circa 1918-circa 1968

Colorado Hispanic Family Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 148
Scope and Contents

Images of mostly unidentified Mexican American (Hispanic) men, women, teenagers, children, and infants in Denver, Colorado, Mora, New Mexico, and unidentified locations probably in Colorado and New Mexico. Views of families and family life, family outings, vacations, houses, interiors, neighborhoods, bars and nightclubs, school graduations, priests and nuns, businesses, a birthday party, African Americans, a dance band, children at play, and a parade.

Dates: 1957-1961

Colorado [lantern slide collection]

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 14
Scope and Contents

Views of Colorado historical events and figures. Includes images of maps. explorers, trappers, military men, cities and towns, mining, agriculture, fortifications, and scenic views.

Dates: 1927?

Colorado Mancos Canyon

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 107
Scope and Contents

Views of the Richard Wetherill ranch, Mancos Canyon, and Mesa Verde, Colorado. Images of Ute summer tipis, cliff dwellings, and probably Richard Wetherill.

Dates: between 1889 and 1890

Colorado Preservation, Inc. Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 193
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of Colorado Preservation, Inc.'s Endangered Places Program nominees.

Dates: between 1999 and 2002

Colorado snapshot album

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 294
Scope and Contents

Colorado family album, with images of Georgetown, Denver, Civic Center, train wrecks, Royal Gorge, World War One tanks, and picnics.

Dates: between 1900 and 1947

Colorado stone quarries, S.T. Hathaway owner, Denver, Colo

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 344
Scope and Contents

Views of the storage yard for Colorado Stone Quarries in Denver, Colorado. Images of a lava quarry near Castle Rock (Douglas County), sandstone quarries near Arkins (Larimer County) and a gray sandstone quarry near Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. Shows quarrying, hoisting machinery, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad track and freight cars, and stone cutting machinery.

Dates: ca 1903

Colorado trip

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 387
Scope and Contents Views of Colorado. Shows adobe houses and buildings; the Mineral Palace in Pueblo (Pueblo County); views of the Royal Gorge and Arkansas River and the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Hanging Bridge; interior and exterior views of the Hotel Colorado and the Yampah Hot Springs in Grand Junction (Garfield County); Glenwood Canyon and the Colorado River (Garfield County); the Fryingpan River and Aspen (Pitkin County); view of Pikes Peak from the west (El Paso County); views of unidentified mines;...
Dates: 1893