PPLD Digital Collections

A well-dressed man in a suit and bowler hat is perched in the foreground on a rocky outcropping in Ute Pass. A horse drawn trap is moving along the rutted Ute Pass Trail in the background. 1

Annotated with “1401A. Siamese Twins, Garden of the Gods.” Both dressed in mid-1890s attire, a man is seen to the left of the rock formations and a woman with a large hat is posing in an opening at the base of the twin towers of stone. 1

Annotated “1038. Street View, Manitou Springs”. The Wheeler town clock is in the foreground and just behind the clock is the Manitou Mineral Water Company building with cupola and to its right it the Manitou Bath House. 1

Annotated “1405A. Tower of Babel” on the print. Rock formation is located in Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs. 1

Annotation on photo reads “633. Royal Gorge, Grand Cañon of the Arkansas River.” The “Hanging Bridge” of the Royal Gorge Railway Route is seen in the foreground. 1

Arched rock formation. 1

Card annotated at the bottom as “1414. Punch and Judy”. A woman wearing circa late 1880s attire is standing to the left rear of the rock formations. 1

Cheyenne [Soda] Spring ,Manitou Springs, CO 1

Cliff dwellings, Mesa Verde. 1

Colorado Springs High School Class Play, 1911. 1

Colorized lantern slide of Halfway House on the Pikes Peak and Manitou Cog Railway. Railroad tracks in foreground. 1

Colorized view of Soda Spring, Cheyenne Spring, Navajo Spring, and Cliff House in Manitou Springs. Colorado Springs and Interurban Railway streetcar #47 and carriages visible on the street. 1

Colorized view of the Cog Depot in Manitou Springs. Streetcar #2 is visible to the left with sign reading "Iron Spring & Cog Depot." 1

Colorized view of train car on the Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek Short Line. Note on side, "Near Duffield" 1

Constructed placer mining chutes in Clear Creek Canyon. 1

Copy of a 1914 portrait of an unknown girl by Julian Russell Story - Born 1

Early Victorian homes built in the hills of Manitou Springs. 1

El Paso Mine in Cripple Creek. 1

Elevated and colorized view of Ouray, Colorado. 1

Elevated view of the Glenwood Springs taken from adjacent mountain. Handwritten on back label of the original 1

Exterior view of the hospital building. Handwritten on the original plate's back label 1

Falls and Pulpit Rock|Ute Pass, Manitou, Colo. 1

Fashionably dressed woman in mid-1890s-style attire is posing by a creek. Her image is reflected in the water. 1

Foothills ranchland with old buckboard and farm implements. 1

Group of well dressed, tourists or clients in front of R.M. Davis' Soda Springs Pavilion, Manitou Springs CO. 1

Hand-tinted view of Alta Vista Hotel. A woman exits an automobile. Horse and carriage are parked in front of the hotel. Bicycles are propped against trees and hotel. 1

Hand-tinted view of Georgetown, Colorado. 1

Hand-tinted view of Pikes Peak Summit House. Tourists and cog train visible. Sign on building reads "Entrance to Tower inside of building" and "The Highest Telegraph Office in the World." 1

Hand-tinted view of Victor, Colorado. Written on the slide "Victor-Cripple Creek." 1

Hand-tinted view of aerial tram in Ouray, Colorado. 1

Hand-tinted view of narrow dirt road known as High Drive. 1

Hand-tinted view of railroad tracks and trestle running along a narrow rocky canyon in the mountains. Written on the lantern slide "Rio Grande Southern." 1

Hand-tinted view of the Alamo Hotel. Horse and carriage parked in front. 1

Hand-tinted view of the Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway steam locomotive pushing a passenger car. up a rocky canyon. Small house structure is visible beyond the train tracks. 1

Hand-tinted view of the Stratton Park pavilion with street car #64 parked at this trolley station in Cheyenne Canyon.. 1

Handwritten on back label "No-13-Four Donkeys Manitou Colo". 1

Handwritten on back label "No.714 Colorado Canon of the Arkansaw R.". 1

Herd of dairy cows grazing near a grove of trees. Farm buildings and two men are visible in the background. 1

Hillside with trees. 1

Long view looking northeast of South Table Mountain with houses of the town of Golden, Colorado in the middle ground. The shadows of two men at the camera location can be seen in the foreground. 1

Long view looking northeast of South Table Mountain with houses of the town of Golden, Colorado, in the middle ground. The shadows of two men at the camera location can be seen in the foreground. 1

Low water in Creek bed. 1

Man and burro on the Pikes Peak Trail. Printed on bottom "1067A. Willing Subject on Pike's Peak Trail." 1

Man chops wood at a campsite. Another man stands at a camp stove. 1

Man in horse drawn covered wagon moving along a dirt road. 1

Man in suit and bowler hat in foreground looking over river in a rugged mountain area. At the summit of the peak on the right a crudely drawn tunnel entrance and train have been scribed on the print. Printed on front "415. Toltec Gorge and Tunnel." 1

Man opening gate at entrance to Redstone Castle. Property appears to be overgrown with vegetation indicating the residence is vacant. Redstone Castle is seen through the gateway on the hill beyond. 1

Man reclining on a hill with his dog. 1

Man seated on rocks at the foot of Rainbow Falls, Ute Pass, Manitou. 1

Man stands beside railroad car below St. Peters Dome on the Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek Short Line. Ground is snow covered. Colorized. 1

Man, woman, and child wear coats in Garden of the Gods. Man in carriage with blanket in the background. Written on the slide "Ruins of Montezumas Temple, Garden of the Gods." 1

Manitou Soda Springs Pavilion with Pikes Peak. The Pavilion sign reads 1

Midland Railway Bridge & Road to Iron Springs, and Manitou Springs, Colorado. [previously numbered 001-5598] 1

Navajo Geyser at Navajo [soda] Spring , Manitou Springs, CO 1

Photo is printed on page 198 of the 1917 Pikes Peak Nugget. "The "Barbs" were organized this year for the purpose of drawing the non-fraternity men together and giving them a social life." 1

Photo is printed on page 70 of the 1914 Lever Yearbook. Miss Frost, faculty supervisor|Fern Reitzel as president|Elizabeth Nicholson, secretary|Mabel Wing as treasurer. 1

Photo is printed on page 80 of the 1914 Lever Yearbook. Hayes Tucker, president. 1

Photo is printed on page 86 of the 1915 Lever Yearbook. Winona Runquist, president|Mabel Atkinson, vice president|Josephine Love, treasurer|Laura Brown, secretary|Hortense Scott, Lever correspondent. 1

Photo portrait of a well-dressed man in coat and tie with bowler hat seated in front of a stone building. 1

Pikes Peak Cog railroad car makes its way through snow banks on either side of the tracks. 1

Pikes Peak Cog road at Artists Glen. Small log bridge spans creek. 1

Portland Mine 1

Portrait of a young woman. Touch-up work appears to have been done to the negative that gives the hair of the woman an unnatural feathery appearance. 1

Printed on bottom "1230. Leaning Tower. Cheyenne Canon." View of large rock formation. 1

Printed on front "1031. Cascade Canon." View of iced over waterfall. Wooden stairs visible in upper right-hand corner. 1

Printed on front "1212. Entrance to Grand Caverns." Two small structures are visible in the center of the image. 1

Printed on front "1225. The Narrows. Williams Canon." Narrows to Cave of the Winds, early days. 1

Printed on front "1229. Temple of Isis. Williams Cañon." Towering rock formations on cliffs of Williams Canyon. 1

Printed on front "1234. Weeping Falls. Williams Cañon." View of waterfalls cascading down rocks. Also called the Four Falls. Two women in late 1880s-style attire are seated with each holding a parasol. 1

Printed on front "1235. Williams Cañon." View of canyon. Two woman in late 1880s-style attire are standing in the foreground at bottom of image.. 1

Printed on front "1239. Williams Cañon." View of dirt path through the canyon. Small stream on the left. Woman wearing late 1880s-style attire holding a parasol poses on rock in center of image. 1

Printed on front "1282. The Four Falls, Williams Cañon." View of four waterfalls cascading down rocks. Also called Weeping Falls 1

Printed on front "1667. Pillar of Hurculese [Hercules]." Nearly a thousand feet high, and at one place but forty-two feet apart, barely giving room for the stream and roadway between them. 1

Printed on front "1667. Seven Falls, Cheyenne Canon." View of all 7 waterfalls and wooden stairway to top. 1

Printed on front "1671. Cheyenne Cañon." View of large rocks and stream. 1

R.M. Davis' Soda Springs Pavilion with stone bridge over Fountain Creek. 1

R.M. Davis' Soda Springs Pavilion, Manitou Springs CO. 1

R.M. Davis' Soda Springs Pavillion and wooden bridge across Fountain Creek, Manitou Springs, CO. 1

Railroad tracks through Royal Gorge. Printed on bottom "1586 Hanging Bridge, Royal Gorge" and "Hook Photo". 1

Road intersection in Manitou Springs with newly planted trees visible in the center. A street light hangs on a wire above the intersection. 1

Rock formation along the Garden of the Gods Pikes Peak Trail. 1

Rock formations with a horse-drawn carriage visible in the foreground. Handwritten on the original plate's back label 1

Rosemma Falls on the Pikes Peak Trail. 1

Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado. 1

Sheltered Falls on the Pikes Peak Trail. A man is sitting on the large rock adjacent to the bottom of the falls. 1

Some early Victorian homes in the hills of Manitou Springs, CO. 1

Tent restaurant in Cripple Creek. Written on the tent "Lunchroom, Meals 25 cents, Hot Soup 10 cents, Oysters, Sandwhiches 15 cents, Coffee 5 cents per cup, Hot Beef Ash." 1

The Native, Seal, and Bear|Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs. 1

The Parliament, land formation, Monument Park, Colorado Springs circa 1900. 1

The Royal Gorge Bridge as viewed by a man from Bigler Gorge. 1

The city of Manitou Springs viewed from Cavern Trail. Houses and tent structures are visible through the haze in the background. 1

Three gentlemen with mid-1890s clothing and hair styles are posing on rocks in front of Rainbow Falls, Ute Pass, Manitou Springs. 1

Train traveling over Colorado Midland Railroad Trestle. The economic potential of booming mining camps inspired the board of directors of Colorado Springs’ First National Bank to build a standard-gauge railroad through the Rockies. 1

Two men are seated on a log below Rainbow Falls, Ute Pass, Manitou Springs, Colorado. 1

Two men on horseback and a paint horse without a rider (probably the dismounted photographer) near Minnehaha Falls on Pikes Peak Trail. 1

Unidentified waterfall. 1

Upper Twin Lake, Lake County Colorado. 1

Upper and Lower Rainbow Falls, Ute Pass Trail, near Manitou Springs, CO. 1

Ute Pass 1

View above the falls. Handwritten on the back label 1

View looking down Pikes Peak Avenue towards the second Antlers Hotel with tracks and overhead catenary lines for the streetcar system in the foreground. 1

View of Denver & Rio Grande railroad tracks running through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Wooden structure sits beside the tracks with wash hanging on the line. Written on lantern slide "Black Canyon, D&RG, Cathedral Park." 1

View of First United Methodist Church. 1

View of a downtown Denver Street. Handwritten on back of original label 1

View of a waterfall. Printed on original plate 1

View of an unidentified church building. Printed on back label "Stereopticon & Film Exchange, Chicago, Ill.". 1

View of church exterior. Hand-printed on original label 1

View of ice boat in Lake George. Man reclines on boat with small log cabins in the background. 1

View of lawn and buildings at the Manitou Springs Bath House. 1

View of ornate wooden bridge in Stratton Park. 1

View of railroad tracks in the Royal Gorge with hanging bridge in the distance. 1

View of street with streetcars, horse-drawn wagons, and pedestrians visible. Handwritten on back of original label 1

View of the Mount of the Holy Cross with snow. Stamped on the front of the original plate 1

View of the Mushroom Rocks in Garden of the Gods. Handwritten on the original plate's back label 1

View of the exterior the old Arapahoe County Courthouse in downtown Denver. A large street light hangs from a wire in the upper left. Handwritten on the original plate's back label 1

View of the hills and Manitou Springs through an ocular opening. 1

Wearing a mid-1890s-style dress with large buttons, a woman is posing in a tree holding a book and a large flowered hat. A creek and farm buildings appear in the background. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is crossing a log over a small creek. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is fishing by a creek. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is kneeling with a stick by a creek. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is posing with a stick by a creek. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is sitting by a creek fishing. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is standing against tree by a creek. 1

Woman walks down pathway with bicycle, possibly in Acacia Park. People sit on benches throughout the park. 1

Woman with umbrella posing in the cliffs above Manitou Springs, Colo. 1

Young boy with stick standing on a rock by a creek. 1