Historic Colorado

03/07/2025

03/07/2025

Colorized photo of Denver's Union Station with southbound Colorado and Southern Railway passenger train and Rio Grande double header passenger train loading|station tracks laid with three rails to accommodate narrow gauge and standard gauge trains|numerous baggage and freight rail carts await loading|wooden barrels stacked on carts right foreground|Globe Express Company sign on railroad platform cover|19th (Nineteenth) Street grade crossing next to Railroad Mission (building with steeple) distant background|Denver Gas Works (large chimney on left).

Photo by McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957

06/05/2024

Miners pose near a makeshift shelter and display a sample of their ore, Gold Hill mine, Colorado.

06/01/2024

Automobiles and a pedestrian make their way through water by Union Station at 17th (Seventeenth) and Wynkoop Streets during the Cherry Creek flood which resulted from the Castlewood Dam break of 1933, Denver, Colorado. A spare tire cover on the back of one automobile reads: "Quaker State Motor Oil And Greases Best For All Cars Sommers Oil Co".

06/01/2024

View of Wynkoop Street and Union Station, in Denver, Colorado; shows the clock tower, people, traffic, buggies, and trees.

03/16/2018

Northwest view of downtown Denver between 1929 and 1933. (Louis Charles McClure/Denver Public Library/Western History Collection/MCC-3057)

03/16/2018

A streetcar conductor and a streetcar operator pose with Denver City Tramway Company car number 68 on Larimer Street between 16th and 17th streets in 1906. (J.E. Kunkle/Western History and Genealogy/Denver Public Library)

08/16/2017

Crowds arrive to see 'The Healer' in Denver, 1895.

08/14/2017

Victor, Colo., and the Gold Coin Mine, taken in 1900. Incredible detail is visible in this photo. When you zoom in you can clearly so how life was back then including: Victor Daily Times Building, Goldberg's Department Store Sign, Colo Trading & Transfer Building, Teller County Mining Supply Company Store, people riding their wagons through town pulled by horses, just amazing detail!

08/14/2017

Main street in Leadville, Colorado, 1941. ,

08/14/2017

Great detail in this photo of the Post Office, Ouray, Colorado, 1940.

08/14/2017

Colorado Midland Band, Colorado Springs, Colo. 1908.