Category:Denver Public Library public domain images

The Denver Public Library’s Western History/Genealogy Department collection of digitized photographs (formerly Photoswest) chronicles the people, places and events that shaped the settlement and growth of the Western United States. It is representative of works of many outstanding photographers. Subjects include Native Americans, pioneers, railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and the 10th Mountain Division ski troops.

Many, but by no means all, of the Western History photos are PD because of expired copyright. The Denver Public Library claims the right to restrict the use of its PD photos [ Image permissions ], but this is contrary to US copyright law and Wikimedia Commons policy.

Main website: DPL digital collections

Media in category "Denver Public Library public domain images"

The following 152 files are in this category, out of 152 total.

'Denver from the Highlands' by Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier, 1874.jpg 1,399 × 925; 338 KB
1889 Constitutional Convention Parade Bismark ND.jpg 1,560 × 1,190; 915 KB
Algernon Smith.jpg 1,030 × 1,462; 443 KB
Amos Steck.jpg 1,048 × 1,318; 594 KB
Animas circa 1877.jpg 640 × 380; 33 KB
Animas Forks Main Street circa 1885.jpg 640 × 420; 34 KB
Animas Forks railroad & town.jpg 640 × 507; 47 KB
Animas19.jpg 640 × 457; 44 KB
Animas21.jpg 640 × 473; 25 KB
Art-o-graf-group.jpg 8,004 × 6,338; 3.04 MB
ATSF California Limited at Los Angeles circa 1899 William Henry Jackson photo.jpg 768 × 515; 47 KB
AugustaTaborPinceNez.jpg 429 × 640; 32 KB
Baxter B. Stiles.jpg 962 × 1,162; 244 KB
Beaumont Hotel Ouray,CO.jpg 640 × 397; 39 KB
Benjamin Stapleton.jpg 949 × 1,199; 154 KB
Buckwalter - Hot Air Balloon in Georgetown.jpg 1,119 × 1,403; 510 KB
Buckwalter X-Ray Hand.jpg 1,413 × 1,129; 153 KB
California Joe Milner.jpg 1,070 × 1,385; 673 KB
Cathedral Madeline 1908.jpg 640 × 509; 32 KB
Chamberlin Observatory Denver, CO.jpg 1,400 × 970; 673 KB
Charles Cook.jpg 1,050 × 1,290; 613 KB
Charles DeRudio 7th Cavalry.jpg 1,090 × 1,380; 672 KB
Charley Reynolds.jpg 1,068 × 1,390; 623 KB
ChiefHosa.jpg 640 × 509; 88 KB
Child and Doll.jpg 624 × 640; 36 KB
Chinese Family at dinner.jpg 4,015 × 2,896; 1.4 MB
Chinese miners Idaho Springs.jpg 1,600 × 1,115; 939 KB
Chinese-american man 1.jpg 2,739 × 4,021; 837 KB
Chinese-american men.jpg 4,039 × 2,710; 988 KB
ChineseAmerican man(1).jpg 2,436 × 4,008; 554 KB
ChineseAmerican man.jpg 3,083 × 4,008; 1.13 MB
Colorado Springs Millionaires 1901.jpg 1,201 × 927; 368 KB
CountessStoeffel.jpg 365 × 472; 55 KB
Cripple Creek Mining Exchange in Portland Hotel, 1895.jpg 640 × 421; 32 KB
Cripple creek, the row, elephant.jpg 640 × 419; 27 KB
CurleyScout.jpg 498 × 640; 22 KB
Currigan martin.jpg 1,115 × 1,597; 447 KB
Custer's last stand painting.jpg 640 × 418; 48 KB
Custer11.jpg 1,150 × 1,380; 676 KB
D&RGW 168 in 1904.jpg 452 × 640; 39 KB
D&RGW 168 in 1909 1.jpg 640 × 502; 33 KB
D&RGW 168 in 1909 2.jpg 640 × 504; 38 KB
Decorating for Chinese New Year while brother Celestial smokes waterpipe.jpg 4,018 × 2,711; 922 KB
Denver barbers.jpg 640 × 515; 51 KB
Denver Capitol Desk LOC.jpg 492 × 640; 35 KB
Denver five points DPL1.jpg 372 × 218; 66 KB
Doc Holliday.jpg 439 × 640; 23 KB
Donald McKay, Chief of the Warm Springs Indians.jpg 1,075 × 1,300; 675 KB
Edward Settle Godfrey 01.jpg 1,180 × 1,790; 699 KB
Edward Settle Godfrey.jpg 1,200 × 1,790; 586 KB
Far West (steamship).jpg 1,585 × 1,170; 983 KB
Francis M Case.jpg 1,068 × 1,324; 512 KB
Frederick Walker Pitkin (cropped).jpg 786 × 947; 326 KB
Frederick Walker Pitkin.jpg 1,100 × 1,184; 474 KB
George Amstrong Custer with Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovitch.jpeg 1,150 × 1,562; 957 KB
George Davis Begole.jpg 967 × 1,183; 353 KB
George Edwin Lord.jpg 948 × 1,212; 517 KB
George T. Clark.jpg 965 × 1,205; 340 KB
GeorgeLBeam examining plate.jpg 467 × 640; 18 KB
Geronimo surrenders March 1886.jpg 1,622 × 1,190; 1.08 MB
Giovanni Martini (militare).jpg 1,110 × 2,186; 872 KB
Gold Prince Mill construction, 1904.jpg 640 × 500; 53 KB
Grand Canyon Route of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 1900-05.jpg 640 × 281; 70 KB
Luther Hare.jpg 1,180 × 1,780; 804 KB
Harry Buckwalter 1894.jpg 1,175 × 1,525; 582 KB
Henry J Arnold.jpg 1,020 × 1,242; 473 KB
Henry Rinaldo Porter.jpg 1,146 × 1,584; 665 KB
Henry V Johnson.jpg 1,034 × 1,306; 479 KB
Hiram J. Brendlinger.jpg 1,048 × 1,306; 541 KB
Homosexuals being punished.jpg 3,151 × 4,029; 721 KB
Hopi snake dance.jpg 640 × 416; 102 KB
Horses at Night, Frank Mechau.jpg 2,530 × 1,099; 1.26 MB
Hydraulic mining in Dutch Flat, California, between 1857 and 1870.jpg 640 × 477; 63 KB
IndianPaintHorse.jpg 640 × 511; 41 KB
IndianTravois.jpg 640 × 430; 42 KB
Inter-Ocean Hotel.jpg 1,389 × 1,047; 432 KB
Ivy Baldwin.jpg 741 × 725; 80 KB
J M Perkins.jpg 1,364 × 1,106; 462 KB
James Ezekiel Porter.jpg 1,180 × 1,790; 1.03 MB
Jefferson County School No. 1, 1873.jpg 640 × 484; 45 KB
John C. Moore - 1860.jpg 1,024 × 1,199; 237 KB
John Harper (mayor).jpg 1,032 × 1,308; 528 KB
John Long Routt (cropped) 2.jpg 400 × 500; 133 KB
John Long Routt (cropped) 3.jpg 405 × 439; 110 KB
John Long Routt (cropped) 4.jpg 449 × 563; 157 KB
John Long Routt (cropped).jpg 368 × 552; 139 KB
John Long Routt.jpg 1,073 × 1,574; 973 KB
Joseph E Bates.jpg 1,064 × 1,302; 685 KB
Joseph Jefferson as Ripvanwinkle by Napoleon SArony (1821-1896).jpg 432 × 640; 28 KB
Juan mirabal.jpg 112 × 160; 6 KB
Ku Klux Klan members and a burning cross, Denver, Colorado, 1921.jpg 640 × 521; 20 KB
Ludlow national guard destroyed camp.jpg 4,002 × 2,236; 681 KB
Ludlow teny colony group shot.jpg 4,012 × 2,755; 931 KB
M D Van Horn.jpg 1,076 × 1,250; 441 KB
Marcus Reno.jpg 1,098 × 1,394; 573 KB
Mayor Dewey C Bailey.jpg 1,065 × 1,513; 369 KB
Mears toll road.tiff 2,374 × 1,412; 4.19 MB
Milton DeLano.jpg 1,068 × 1,314; 507 KB
Miners asian ouray county CO.jpg 640 × 504; 62 KB
Miners operate hydraulic sluice, San Francisquito Canyon, LA 1890-1900.jpg 640 × 383; 38 KB
Mission San Francisco de Asis old.jpg 4,762 × 3,011; 5.13 MB
Myles Keogh 1872.jpg 1,078 × 1,506; 697 KB
National Jewish Hospital1.jpg 640 × 513; 54 KB
National Jewish Hospital2.jpg 640 × 494; 70 KB
Pawnee Bill.jpg 1,078 × 1,496; 817 KB
Pipe tomahawk.jpg 350 × 640; 15 KB
Platt Rogers.jpg 1,060 × 1,280; 372 KB
Portrait of Robert F. Six.jpg 1,072 × 1,592; 471 KB
Racecar-in-motion.jpg 549 × 221; 35 KB
Richard G Buckingham.jpg 1,020 × 1,190; 395 KB
Richard Sopris.jpg 1,057 × 1,315; 206 KB
Robert Morris (Denver mayor).jpg 996 × 1,258; 474 KB
Robert R Wright.jpg 1,040 × 1,320; 469 KB
Roosevelt Ranch.jpg 2,390 × 1,100; 914 KB
Salida Colorado office 1890s.jpg 640 × 510; 26 KB
Salt Lake Temple under construction 1880s.jpg 640 × 370; 32 KB
ScalpedHunter.jpg 640 × 442; 35 KB
Sing Lee Silver Cliff Colo Laundryman.jpg 2,919 × 4,016; 912 KB
Southern Pacific Bay City ferry circa 1885.jpg 600 × 371; 33 KB
Speer robert.jpg 993 × 1,279; 174 KB
SunkenGardens.jpg 640 × 520; 33 KB
Sweat Lodge between 1896 and 1905 (cropped).jpg 409 × 315; 25 KB
SweatLodge.jpg 574 × 640; 51 KB
The Girls in the Overalls - Horsedrawn hay rake.jpg 1,401 × 1,061; 428 KB
The Girls in the Overalls - Sawing a log.jpg 1,395 × 1,059; 494 KB
The Girls in the Overalls - The Vidal family eating watermelon.jpg 1,395 × 1,061; 525 KB
The Girls in the Overalls - The Vidal Family.jpg 1,403 × 1,073; 507 KB
The Girls in the Overalls - Tillie Vidal in hayfield.jpg 1,401 × 1,065; 412 KB
The Hold-Up of the Leadville Stage - Bandits.jpg 1,413 × 1,079; 588 KB
The Hold-Up of the Leadville Stage - Bruin Inn.jpg 1,407 × 1,071; 631 KB
The Hold-Up of the Leadville Stage - Chase.jpg 1,395 × 1,063; 505 KB
The Hold-Up of the Leadville Stage - Robbery 1.jpg 1,397 × 1,059; 692 KB
The Hold-Up of the Leadville Stage - Robbery 2.jpg 1,403 × 1,067; 626 KB
The Hold-Up of the Leadville Stage - Traveling.jpg 1,403 × 1,065; 362 KB
The Meeker tragedy.jpg 640 × 421; 52 KB
Theodore Roosevelt Hunting Colorado.jpg 1,403 × 1,129; 422 KB
Thomas Mower McDougall.jpg 1,080 × 1,560; 438 KB
Thomas S McMurry.jpg 1,050 × 1,280; 378 KB
Tomahawk and sabre; or even odds.jpg 1,385 × 1,167; 1.22 MB
UBoulderLibrary spittoon.jpg 640 × 485; 32 KB
Utah miners.jpg 4,017 × 3,059; 1.2 MB
View of the Main Entrance at Camp Swift Texas, August 6, 1944.jpg 640 × 503; 31 KB
William Fitz Randolph Mills.jpg 1,014 × 1,280; 368 KB
William H Sharpley.jpg 990 × 1,258; 430 KB
William J Barker (mayor).jpg 1,064 × 1,308; 499 KB
William Jackson Palmer.jpg 1,088 × 1,588; 693 KB
William M. Clayton.jpg 1,036 × 1,306; 650 KB
William Scott Lee.jpg 980 × 1,228; 437 KB
William Story (attorney).jpg 1,084 × 1,404; 1.29 MB
William W. Cooke.jpg 714 × 1,024; 339 KB
Wolfe Londoner.jpg 1,014 × 1,286; 356 KB
Wooden gold sluice in California between 1890 and 1915..jpg 640 × 485; 272 KB