Denver is a beautiful city of some 75,000 inhabitants, built mostly of stone and brick. It contains the usual amount of fine buildings. One in particular we are lead to observe, and that, Tabor’s Opera House, the largest in the world, excepting one in Paris, France. This building cost $850,000. The County Court House occupies an entire block, with buildings and ground. There are two large smelting works here…
- Panoramic Maps includes early maps of a number of Colorado cities. Search on Colorado, then follow the instructions presented with each map. Zoom in on an area of the map to see mining camps, smelters, railroads, hotels, houses, horse-drawn carriages, and much more in fine and accurate detail.
- Colorado is also known for the richness of its agricultural production, and its physical diversity and beauty. In 1891, President Benjamin Harrison set aside the White River Plateau Timber Land Reserve as the first national forest reserve in Colorado. For additional documents and images related to Colorado’s natural resources and their conservation, search on Colorado in The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920. Read, for example, the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park.
- The Denver Public Library Digital Collections External contain over 30,000 photographs which illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document mining in the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes. Search on the terms Arapaho, Cheyenne, or Ute to see images of these tribal peoples and landscapes which bear their names.
- Learn how travel and settlement paralleled the growth and development of the U.S. railroad system in Railroad Maps, 1828-1900. Browse the collection by geographic location, and select a state, such as Colorado, to view available maps.
- See two films set in Colorado in Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies. View Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene and Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King.
- Listen to sound recordings collected from Spanish-speaking residents of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection contains, for example, Marcha de Napoleón (Napoleon’s March) played by residents of Antonito and Romeo, Colorado.
- Search across the photo and print collections on the term Colorado to see a wide range of historical images of the thirty-eighth state. See, for example, Lillies, Rose Album, and Looking for Lydia — quilts judged the Colorado State Winners of the All-American Quilt Contest in 1992, 1994, and 1996 respectively.
- Search on Colorado in Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 to find books and pamphlets related to the women’s suffrage movement in Colorado between 1868 and 1898.
- Search on Colorado in the“California as I Saw It”: First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849-1900 collection to find first-person narratives about Colorado.