Item Type: PhotographDate: Summer 1976
Description: Close-up of sod church. Although little is known about this deteriorating Church of Christ located at Whittemore and Myers Roads, what is of interest is that it is built of sod. This church site ...
Image Number: 006-267
Item Type: PhotographDate: Summer 1976
Description: Close-up of sod church. Although little is known about this deteriorating Church of Christ located at Whittemore and Myers Roads, what is of interest is that it is built of sod. This church site ...
Image Number: 006-266
Item Type: PhotographDate: Summer 1976
Description: Although little is known about this deteriorating Church of Christ located at Whittemore and Myers Roads, what is of interest is that it is built of sod. This church site is the only authentic so...
Image Number: 006-265
Item Type: PhotographDate: Spring 1976
Description: Deteriorating sod house on the prairie.
Image Number: 006-150
Item Type: PhotographDate: Spring 1976
Description: Original sod house built in 1886 surrounded by trees at Chico Basin Ranch located two miles north of Pueblo County line at Peyton Road. This was one of the first and largest ranches in southern E...
Image Number: 006-143
Item Type: PhotographDate: Spring 1976
Description: Original sod house built in 1886 surrounded by trees at Chico Basin Ranch located two miles north of Pueblo County line at Peyton Road. This was one of the first and largest ranches in southern E...
Image Number: 006-142
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1910
Description: Three women and four men stand in front of sod house. Two men are in work clothes, one in coveralls, and two women wear middy blouses with ties.
Image Number: 001-5290
Item Type: PhotographDescription: Sod house on plains with wood buildings behind. Photo identified on back as "Sod house East of Ellicott near Rush."
Image Number: 001-5110
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1911
Description: An early chain-driven automobile with a tiller is parked in front of a group of people standing in front of two sod houses. The building in the rear has the sign “Burdett Post Office” posted ...
Image Number: 001-4869
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1915
Description: Three men, two women and two children [likely the John J. S. Harvey family] stand in front of two sod houses behind wire fence. The residence of John and Dorcas Harvey on the left is deterioratin...
Image Number: 001-4868
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1910
Description: A crowd of people is lined up in front of sod house with a sign reading "Burdett Post.Office". On the right, an early chain-driven automobile is parked with a child at the tiller and a woman sitt...
Image Number: 001-2323
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1911
Description: Sod house [with a sod roof] has a “Burdett Post Office” mounted next to the door and three wooden barrels sitting outside on the right and discarded wooden crates piled up on the left. One la...
Image Number: 001-2322
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1910
Description: Man, woman and child, identified on back as William H. and Sarah Jane Elder and daughter Marian J., in front of their sod house in Burdett, Colorado. House has two glass windows set in beside do...
Image Number: 001-2311
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1913
Description: Five men are gathered for a game of horseshoes next to a sod building on the prairie. Two men can be seen holding horseshoes with others looking on. Photo is from postcard addressed to Nina Rosam...
Image Number: 001-2112
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1907-1908
Description: Two men, one woman and two children pose in front of a sod house in a snowy yard. Photo is identified on back as "Lena A. Hazen, nee Warner, baby Zylpha Hazen, Charles Lawrence Hazen, Irvin F. H...
Image Number: 001-173
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1911-08
Description: Man, woman and child standing in front of sod house on plains. Another sod and several wooden outbuildings are to the right. A car is parked in front of one of the buildings, and another child ...
Image Number: 001-166
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1895
Description: A seated woman, younger and older girl and toddler boy pose in front of a sod house with a wooden door and framed, screened window.
Image Number: 001-160
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with John Ora Carpenter, of Limon, Colorado. Mr. Carpenter gives a detailed account of his life as a laborer and homesteader in eastern Colorado. Mr. Carpenter came to Colo...
Time Coverage: ca. 1887-1976