015-001

Durango (Colo.) early views

1888-1910

5 images

Early views of Durango, Colorado: three panoramic views of the city and two views of the Tripp cabin and Tripp store in the Animas Valley. These are copy prints.  Photos by Charles Goodman, et al..

015-002

Gladys McBee photographs

1890-1920

2 images

One matted sepia-toned photoprint of two men (one of them with a baby on the handlebars) and a women riding on three bicycles. Also, a black and white photoprint of a young boy watching two lambs nursing by a ewe, as two men watch. Undated.

015-003

Kenneth Logan photographs

1880-1953

26 photoprints

Early views of Southwest Colorado, including 3 of Gold King Mill and other scenes near Silverton, Old Engine House at Rico, Lizard's Head and Mt. Wilson, Rio Grande Southern train wreck near Rico, 1910 cowgirls, Grizzly Creek camp, Morrison Ditch in Bayfield, 2 of freight wagon trains, 2 winter scenes, Ft. Lewis army post, Ten Mile Canyon near Breckenridge, miners, Bill Hanson and Claude Bradley, Quartz Mine at Creede, 2 of Galloping Goose cars, and Trimble Springs dance hall which Logan painted.  Photos by Kenneth Logan.

015-004

La Plata 1, Long Hollow, and Red Mesa dam sites photographs

1936-1936

1 folder

Several reconnaissance photos by James Boyd.

015-005

P. R. Griswold photographs

1873-1928

6 photoprints

Views of the Costilla County Courthouse (San Luis, Colo.) in 1900; Galbreath Timber Co. (South Fork, Colo.) in 1928; a fire in Alamosa on Dec. 25, 1907; Mosca Pass in 1873; a Denver & Rio Grande locomotive in 1900; Mule Shoe Curve at La Veta Pass in 1891 near Crestone (Colo.). These are black and white copy photoprints, each identified and dated.

015-006

McLean photographs

1890-1920

36 images

Includes 16 views of trains, including wrecked engines and winter scenes, probably in Southwest Colorado. Also (and these have the 35 mm copy negatives), views of school children, a group posing in front of the C.O. D. Laundry, Main Street in Lake City, a horse with timbers attached and miners watching, snowy main street scenes, school children group portraits, etc. All are unidentified and undated. These are black and white copy prints that were made in Oct. 1993.

015-007

Wigglesworth photographs

1950-1997

15 images

A view of earth moving equipment; 11 aerial photographs of Durango; and several rural scenes. Undated copy photoprints, each with its matching copy negative (these are still in the folder with the photoprints).  Compiled by Russ H. Wigglesworth.

015-008

Dominguez - Escalante Trail route snapshot photographs

1996-1996

11 photoprints

Contemporary color snapshot views of a likely route of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition that passed through the Durango, Colorado, area on August 7, 1776.  Photos by Walter K. Heikes.

015-009

Snyder photographs

1920-1950

17 photoprints

Views of the Old Fort Lewis campus near Hesperus, and photos of Ute Indians who lived near it. B/w photoprints. Compiled by Clarence Snyder.

015-010

Pat Turner photographs

1890-1967

51 photoprints and some matching negatives

Views of Durango, Colorado. B/w photoprints made from the lender's originals circa 1995. Most are identified and dated. Compiled by Pat Turner.

015-011

A. M. Camp photographs

1881-1920

approx. 25 photoprints

Views of Durango, Colorado, and vicinity. B/w photoprints, still attached to 9 2-sided photo album pages. Most are only partially identified and dated.

015-012

Cherry Creek (Denver, Colo.) flood of July 1912, real photo postcards

1912-1912

26 images

Views of damage from the July 1912 flood of Cherry Creek in Denver, Colorado (photographed by Herbert Jackson on July 14-15, 1912), and one view of an unidentified Boulder County town. B/w real photo postcards, arranged in order of the photographer's numbering on the picture (some gaps; not all of the numbered cards are present). Each photo is dated, titled and numbered on the lower left of the emulsion surface; we have #s 1, 2, 4-6, 7, 9, 10-12, 14, 16-17, 20, 22-23, 25, 27-28, 30, 32-36. These were among the items of the estate of Bill Ramaley's father. In his donation cover letter, Dr. Ramaley wrote that his "great uncle, Herbert Jackson, lived in Denver. The day of, or the day after, the famous Cherry Creek flood of 1912, he walked around taking photos of the damage. My father used family negatives to make postcards. I do not have the negatives anymore."

015-013

Uranium mining photographs from the Denny Viles collection

31 photoprints

Views of uranium mines, miners, and mining, apparently on the western slope of Colorado.  B/w photoprints. Not identified or dated.  Compiled by Denny Viles.

015-014

Gallup (N.M.) contact photoprints

5 sheets of images, and matching 35 mm negatives

Views of people in Gallup, New Mexico. Probably related to the Gallup Indian Community Center (per one envelope in the folder). B/w 35 mm negative contact photoprint sheets. Not identified or dated.

015-015

W. T. Vinger farm and fire-fighting equipment photographs

1960-1980

6 photoprints

Views of farming and fire fighting equipment in the Dolores and Rico region of Colorado, photographed by W. T. Vinger. Color photoprints. Most are identified on the back with good detail.

015-016

Colorado's beauty spots souvenir photographs booklet

1906-1906

1 volume

Views of Colorado along the Colorado and Southern Railway. B/w lithographs in a published booklet.

015-017

Gonner & Leeka photographs of Durango

13 photoprints and cover

Views of Durango, Colorado, by Gonner & Leeka. 13 sepia-toned photoprints attached by paper strips, and the album cover which identifies the views.

015-018

Conrad - Brennan photographs of Durango

1890-1940

31 photoprints and 3 matching negatives

Views of Durango, Colorado and vicinity. B/w copy photoprints. Subjects include the Texaco service station (owned and operated by the Brennan family). Most are identified.

015-019

Aspaas family photographs of Fort Lewis

1880-1940

66 images

Views of Fort Lewis, Colorado, and scenes elsewhere in the vicinity, including Pagosa Springs. Includes photos of individuals, groups, buildings, and scenes. B/w copy photoprints. None are identified or dated. No negatives.

015-020

Ptolemy photographs

1880-1910

37 photoprints

Views of Mancos and Silverton, Colorado. B/w copy photoprints. Most are partially identified.

015-021

Schaaf family photographs

7 images

Photographs of groups of people, including one outside the church next to the Florida Cemetery on the Florida Mesa near Durango , Colorado. B/w photoprints. Not identified or dated.

015-022

Viola Enloe photographs of Fort Lewis

1926-1930

15 images

Photographs of groups of people at the Old Fort Lewis campus, cica 1928, including two pages from a photo album. One is a partially identified photo of Fort Lewis faculty in 1928. Another is a group outside the Log Cabin Inn at Pinkerton Springs (north of Durango) in 1928. Also, winter and summer scenes on the campus, and photos from spring vacation outings in 1928. B/w photoprints.

015-023

John Ogier certificate and photograph

2 items

Photocopy of a certificate of appreciation to John Ogier, recognizing his efforts contributing to the 100th anniversary of Colorado Statehood -- signed by Governer Richard D. Lamm in 1976. Accompanied by a black and white photoprint of John Ogier and William Winkler on one side of a flag/Centennial banner and an unidentified U.S. Forest Service employee on the other side; the three men are standing on a mountain peak.

015-024

Hispanic Southwest Colorado portrait photographs

1890-1949

18 images

Views of Hispanic family members of Southwest Colorado. B/w and sepia-toned photoprints. Partially identified. See also slide transparencies in the small collection of slides, accession 2000:09015.

015-025

Ditch #3 diggers photographs

1910-1930

2 photoprints

Two undated early 20th century photoprints (6.25 " x 8.25" on acidic matboard nearly 9 x 11") by Hippenmeyer (Farmington, N.M.). One is a posed portrait of 7 adults (4 of them, Navajo; and 3 Anglo men) in front of a canvas tent about 9' tall at its peak and is labeled in pencil on the back Showalter[?]'s Camp on San Juan River, Ditch #3. The other is labeled in pencil on the back Ditch #3 San Juan River N.M. and is a large group portrait of the same two Anglo men posing in front of a double row of Native Americans who are holding ditch-digging tools (long-handled shovels and a few axes) with five more adult Indians seated in front of the rows of standing adults. Both photoprints are somewhat faded.

015-026

Frontier women photograph

1 photoprint

View of 3 women standing in front of a log house. Undated and unidentified black and white photoprint.

015-027

Chuck Harbert photographs

1925-1930

2 photoprints

Two black and white photos: an Indian mail carrier, circa 1930s, and "125 ft. 'Fiery Cross' burned on Smelter Mtn. at close of KKK address by Rev. Markley. Durango Colo. April 22 - 25"/ photo by Pennington Studio.

015-028

American Smelting and Refining Co. (Durango, Colo.) photographs

14 photoprints

A.S.& R. Co. (American Smelting and Refining Company) early 20th century photos of wooden-fenced areas and construction, apparently near the Animas River in Durango. The word "Samuels" has been written beneath some of the images on some of the prints.

015-029

Southwest Colorado photographs from Denver Convention and Visitors Bureau

1949-1949

2 photoprints

B/w photoprints of Southwest Colorado, circa 1949: Electra Lake and Wolf Creek Falls. From the Denver Convention and Visitors Bureau (along with 3 duplicates of 2006:117:003).

015-030

Southwest Colorado photographs from State Highway Department

1950

15 photoprints

B/w photoprints of Southwest Colorado, circa 1949, including Coalbank Hill, Red Mountain Pass, Lake City, Sultan Mountain near Silverton, Cumbres Pass by O.T. Davis, Chimney Rock, Wagon Wheel Gap by O.T. Davis, Emerald Lake, Shelf Road, Grenadier Range from Molas Lake, Te-La-Waukett Ranch on the Pine River. From the Colorado State Highway Department, dated March 1949 and numbered.

015-031

Southwest Colorado photographs

1945-1950

10 photoprints

B/w photoprints of Southwest Colorado, circa 1949, including Coalbank Hill, Red Mountain Pass, Lake City, Sultan Mountain near Silverton, Cumbres Pass by O.T. Davis, Chimney Rock, Wagon Wheel Gap by O.T. Davis, Emerald Lake, Shelf Road, Grenadier Range from Molas Lake, Te-La-Waukett Ranch on the Pine River. From undetermined source(s).

015-032

Alton Dorsett photographs

1898-1965

19 photoprints

A variety of black and white photoprints. Includes a number of portrait photos of Mr. William A. and his wife Margaret Wieland of Bayfield, Colorado. Also, views of the Fowler property in Bayfield, 1900; Presbyterian Church in Bayfield "dad built it"; American Smelting and Refining baseball team; two early card photos including one of toddler named Ernie in 1898. Also, the George Goodmand and Co. wallpaper store; a more recent view of Goodman art supplies etc. store; Durango street scene with snow piled up on Dec. 23, 1965; G. A. Ambold Meat Market, Colorado Armory, G.W. Kepha… General Outfiters, and other early storefront buildings with a board sidewalk and dirt street; panoramic view of Durango from Smelter Mountain circa 1963; etc.

015-033

Olga Schaaf Little photographs

1926-1956

26 photoprints

Views of muleteer Olga Little and her home at Hesperus, Colorado, at the Gold King Mine in the San Juan Mountains, and on the trail with her mule train. Some are identified and dated. Includes one oversize color enlargement of a slide transparency that is in the related collection, P 017-010.

015-034

A. C. Vroman's Pueblo photographs

1899-1900

6 photoprints

Pueblo tribes photos, 1899-1900, by A. C. Vroman.  7 black and white photoprints, size 8 1/2" x 11".

015-035

Culver family photographs

1899-1900

2 photoprints

A Wescott (Dunlap, Iowa) card photo of baby Cora Culver, cousin of Edna Kuykendall Muhic; and a photo of Mary, Grace, and Stewart Culver standing outdoors.

015-036

Durango buildings photographs

1945

19 images

Durango landmarks, circa 1945, including the old County Courthouse, the County Fairgrounds during the annual Spanish Trails Fiesta rodeo, several brick houses, and a large wooden structure. 24 copy photoprints, 5x7" (includes some duplicates; 19 black and white images) Undated and unidentified, but good quality images. Duane Smith acquired these from Durango architect R. Michael Bell. From originals at the La Plata County Court House.

015-037

Goldie Smiley photographs

1899-1920

10 images

Original black and white photos of persons in the Durango area around the turn of the century. Includes a group card photo of a band of 8 players (woodwinds, brass, and strings), including B. E. Hocker, Mary Hocker, Goldie Hocker (Smiley), Anna Hocker, and Jesse Hocker; a card pnoto of 6 women on a 1909 basketball team; a sepia-toned goup photo of B. E. Hocker, Mary Hocker, Jesse Hocker, Anna Hocker, and Goldie Hocker (Smiley); a card photo of Anna Hocker; and real photo post cards of women on a porch, women standing in front of a building, six smiling young men (Ned Haggart, Paul Jakway, Dick Lane, Goulding Houk, Glen Stevens, and Jim McGillis) standing in a line in suits, and 9 persons in a band (strings, percussion, and brass); and two black and white snapshotphotos of a couple standing outside a car and two fowl in a path to a building.

015-038

Charlie Black Mesa Verde photographs

1899-1920

19 images

A card photo (and photoprint copy) of mummies, by Gonner & Hurd (Durango, Colo.). Also, 18 5x7" black and white photo negatives, mostly of views of cliff dwelling archaeological sites at Mesa Verde National Park.

015-039

Lewis Bartholomew photographs

19 images

Photos circa 1920s of Smuggler (Colo.), et al.  Belonging to Mrs. Lewis Bartholomew of Bayfield; loaned by Eric J. Adams of KIUP Radio, decades ago.

015-040

Clara Goeglein photographs

19 images

Real photo postcard, postmarked Sept. 7, 1926, of the Elks Home in Grand Junction. Also, 5 photo negatives.

015-041

Early 20th century Durango photographs

1900-1950

6 images

Photos of a Durango residence and a large group outside a clapboard building with a broken window pane.  Also, 4 negatives of 1040 Main Avenue, Durango.

015-042

Nel McCarty La Plata County photographs

1920-1929

6 images

Photos of individuals and scenes in La Plata County, Colorado, where Nel McCarty was superintendent of the schools in the 1920s. Includes views of school buildings in Allison and Thompson, and portrait photos by Pen-Dike Studio (Durango, Colo.). Includes nitrate negatives, separated out.

015-043

Frank H. Vos storefront photograph

1926-1926

1 image

Card black and white photo of the Frank H. Vos building, used as exhibit #1 in Vos vs. Vos court case #3882. Dated September 1, 1926.

Pacific Railroad photographs by A. R. "Andy" Saez

1954-1958

Well identified photos of locomotives.  Includes views of: a 0-6-0 wheel arrangement Southern Pacific switcher engine at Bay Shore Yard, San Francisco, California; a 4-8-2 Mountain Class engine at San Francisco; a 4-8-4 Northern type engine #4434 on Train #780 at Bakersfield; a General Motors Aerotrain (an experiment that didn't work -- using bus bodies for cars) on the Santa Fe Railroad at Orange, California; a 2-8-0 Colorado Southern locomotive; a 4-8-8-4 Union Pacific Big Bay (largest engine ever run in the U.S.; only 24 of them) in Green River, Wyoming; a 4-6-6-4 Union Pacific Challenger engine in Cheyenne; et al.