Please Note: For purposes of presentation, images in these exhibits (excepting "Classics") may have been resized, cropped or digitally enhanced to improve clarity. Copies of photographs obtained from our Sales Department will not be digitally enhanced, and may appear differently than the images seen in the galleries below.

Winter, 2004 - 2005

OUR NEWEST GALLERY:

Selected images from our collection of photographs by Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad photographer George L. Beam.

 

RECENT EXHIBITS:

 

Find out about the Denver Parks Album, and the Lang & Pugh Album, both now available online.

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photoswest.org Classics shows a selection of our most-requested items.

 

Building Histories Learn how to search for photographs of buildings in the database and research property history at the Denver Public Library.

 

PHOTOGRAPHER BIOGRAPHIES

David F. Barry The Barry collection includes portraits of famous Native American chiefs, warriors, scouts, women, Sitting Bull, Rain in the Face, and Red Cloud, images of the Buffalo Bill Cody Wild West Show, and military photographs.

Harry M. Rhoads Harry Rhoads made photographs in Colorado for almost 60 years. He took pictures of leading celebrities and socialites of his day, crimes, tragedies, and people. Harry's great sense of humor shows in many of the approximately 2,500 images we have available online.

Horace S. Poley Horace Poley photographed Colorado towns, prospectors, Native American Utes, ruins at Mesa Verde, and a variety of other interesting subjects, between about 1900 and 1935. Our scans of his hand-colored lantern slides are of special interest.

Special Collections
(Exhibits from pre-2000)

Ross-Barrett Historical Aeronautics Collection This noted collection focuses on the history of flight. Our exhibit highlights some of the 10,000 Ross-Barrett items housed at The Denver Public Library.

Native American Women A look at the daily lives of late 19th-century Native American women of the plains and the desert southwest. See women weaving, gardening, and making pottery.

Louis C. McClure and Denver, The City Beautiful Denver's urban beautification efforts from the 1890s through the 1920s provided many lovely images for the lens of photographer L.C. McClure.

Colorado Celebrates the Fourth of July Festive people and Independence Day customs in the Rocky Mountains, from days gone by.