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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸
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🤖 A bot posting images from the Denver Public Library. Coded and curated by a history nerd in Leadville. Not affiliated with DPL. Based on @colohistory on the bird app. Big fan of ColoradoHistoricNewspapers.org 📰 Like and share, please ❤️
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 10h
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1022614 #Colorado #NewCastle #GarfieldCounty Credit: Unknown
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 10h
New Castle School | 1900-1905 | Three-story brick building with cross gabled roof, stone lintels and foundation, ornate chimneys, round window, arched entry, and covered porch. A firehose leads to the downspout. New Castle was first known as Grand Buttes, then Chapman.
New Castle School | 1900-1905 | Three-story brick building with cross gabled roof, stone lintels and foundation, ornate chimneys, round window, arched entry, and covered porch. A firehose leads to the downspout. New Castle was first known as Grand Buttes, then Chapman.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 22h
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1028455 #Colorado #TellerCounty #1890s Credit: Horace Swartley Poley
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 22h
Green Mt. Hotel | 1892-1901 | Guests stand on steps and porch of three-story resort hotel in Green Mountain Falls. Features include side tower, mansard roof with dormer windows, covered porches, spindles along porch frieze, and decorative railing.
Green Mt. Hotel | 1892-1901 | Guests stand on steps and porch of three-story resort hotel in Green Mountain Falls. Features include side tower, mansard roof with dormer windows, covered porches, spindles along porch frieze, and decorative railing.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 1d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1102591 #Colorado #Denver #1880s Credit: Unknown
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 1d
Union Station | 1881-1894 | View of Denver's first station at 18th and Wynkoop Streets. Railroad Gothic building with clock tower, passenger cars, tracks, crates, and baggage carts. Passengers and railroad employees visible.
Union Station | 1881-1894 | View of Denver's first station at 18th and Wynkoop Streets. Railroad Gothic building with clock tower, passenger cars, tracks, crates, and baggage carts. Passengers and railroad employees visible.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 1d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1021595 #Colorado #RedCliff #1880s Credit: Unknown
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 1d
Sunday School | 1889 | Minturn Sunday school class poses in Red Cliff, Colorado. Group wearing formal attire with fishing poles and picnic basket. Identified people include Rev. Chester M. Clark, C.R. Berry, and others from Eagle County.
Sunday School | 1889 | Minturn Sunday school class poses in Red Cliff, Colorado. Group wearing formal attire with fishing poles and picnic basket. Identified people include Rev. Chester M. Clark, C.R. Berry, and others from Eagle County.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 2d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1134298 #Colorado #PublicTransit #1970s Credit: Unknown
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 2d
Transit Vehicle | February 16, 1972 | A personal air-cushion transit vehicle designed by Transportation Technology Inc. of Denver moves down a guideway at a test site east of Stapleton International Airport. Gov. Love rode in the first official run.
Transit Vehicle | February 16, 1972 | A personal air-cushion transit vehicle designed by Transportation Technology Inc. of Denver moves down a guideway at a test site east of Stapleton International Airport. Gov. Love rode in the first official run.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 2d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1118165 #Colorado #GlenwoodSprings #1890s Credit: Rose & Hopkins
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 2d
Glenwood | 1886-1901 | Eastward view of Hotel Glenwood and First National Bank buildings from Grand Avenue. Hotel Yampah visible in distance. Various pedestrians and horse-drawn buggies shown.
Glenwood | 1886-1901 | Eastward view of Hotel Glenwood and First National Bank buildings from Grand Avenue. Hotel Yampah visible in distance. Various pedestrians and horse-drawn buggies shown.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 3d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1016510 #Colorado #SanJuanCounty #1910s Credit: Unknown
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 3d
Silverton View | 1911-1920 | Looking northeast with pines and aspens in foreground. Town below with San Juan County Courthouse, Town Hall, and Grand Imperial Hotel. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad tracks and Animas River visible.
Silverton View | 1911-1920 | Looking northeast with pines and aspens in foreground. Town below with San Juan County Courthouse, Town Hall, and Grand Imperial Hotel. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad tracks and Animas River visible.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 3d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1020556 #Colorado #WomenInPolitics #1910s Credit: Unknown
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 3d
Helen Robinson | 1911 | Head and shoulders portrait of first woman State Senator of Colorado. She wears her hair in a bun, light dress with dark floral decoration and pendant necklace.
Helen Robinson | 1911 | Head and shoulders portrait of first woman State Senator of Colorado. She wears her hair in a bun, light dress with dark floral decoration and pendant necklace.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 4d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1052261 #Colorado #Trinidad #LaborStrike Credit: Unknown
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 4d
Labor Protest | People march supporting UMW coal miners on strike against CF&I in Trinidad on North Commercial Street. First Presbyterian Church, Fire Department, and Rice School visible in background.
Labor Protest | People march supporting UMW coal miners on strike against CF&I in Trinidad on North Commercial Street. First Presbyterian Church, Fire Department, and Rice School visible in background.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 4d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1031733 #Colorado #GilpinCounty #Burro Credit: Unknown
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 4d
Central City | circa 1900 | A boy and toddler ride a burro down Eureka Street while a man watches from sidewalk. Signs visible include "The Golden Rule" and "First National Bank."
Central City | circa 1900 | A boy and toddler ride a burro down Eureka Street while a man watches from sidewalk. Signs visible include "The Golden Rule" and "First National Bank."
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 5d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1101600 #Colorado #Denver #1960s Credit: Terry Brennan
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 5d
Flood Damage | 1965 June 16 | South Platte River flood damage near 1st Avenue and Umatilla Street in Denver's Valverde neighborhood. Shows houses, warehouses, smokestacks, and a King Soopers sign. A house was displaced and grounded in a field.
Flood Damage | 1965 June 16 | South Platte River flood damage near 1st Avenue and Umatilla Street in Denver's Valverde neighborhood. Shows houses, warehouses, smokestacks, and a King Soopers sign. A house was displaced and grounded in a field.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 5d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1121511 #Colorado #HinsdaleCounty #1920s Credit: D. D. Walker
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 5d
Lake City | 1925-1930 | View of Lake City showing Henson Creek bridge, Gunnison Street, Lake Fork of the Gunnison River, railroad depot, Finley Block, Hough Block, Conoco Station, Armory Hall, First Baptist Church steeple, and Presbyterian Church.
Lake City | 1925-1930 | View of Lake City showing Henson Creek bridge, Gunnison Street, Lake Fork of the Gunnison River, railroad depot, Finley Block, Hough Block, Conoco Station, Armory Hall, First Baptist Church steeple, and Presbyterian Church.
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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 6d
DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1023161 #Colorado #Ouray #1870s Credit: Unknown