Streetscene
A streetscene on 14th Street in about 1908. Bicycles, horse and carts, early cars and pedestrians. The old Town Hall in the background.
Mansion
The Chenovitch house on the corner of 14th and Curtis Street. By 1915 its a boarding house, engulfed in other buildings, including a laundry on the corner.
Mastodon
A mastodon saunters along an imagined 14th Street, the mountains visible in the background.
Tightrope Walker
M’lle Carolista the Tightrope Walker. 1861
“On Thursday next M’lle Carolista is to take a tight rope walk in this city. The rope is to be stretched from the New York Store to Graham’s Drug Store over which she will pass,stopping by the way for the purpose of balancing, posing, etc. This daring feat will no doubt call a large concourse of people to the city.”
Town Hall Riot
A crowd stands on Market Street near City Hall, part of the “City Hall War” a dispute over Fire and Police Board appointments. 1894, March 15.
Tram
The tramway garage on Arapahoe Street during the Denver Tramway strike. Now an exclusive hotel.
Earliest Home
Unused postcard created by William H.H. Larimer depicting the first house in Denver the residence of General Larimer built in 1858.
Canaletto
St Mark’s Campanile overlaid onto Denver’s D&F Tower.
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Venice:
The Molo from the Bacino di S. Marco, c. 1724
Denver Art Museum Collection: Bequest of Charles Edwin M. Stanton, 2009.336
Photography provided by the Denver Art Museum
Telegraph Ladies
The Telegraph Ladies that once worked at the switchboard at the Telephone Building in Denver.
Courtesy, History Colorado (Scan #20007402)
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show as performed at the Denver Performing Arts Center.
Image found at DPAC hanging on a wall, no credits available.
Snowball Fight
At the 1908 Denver Democratic Convention, snow was brought down from the hills so the senators could have a snowball fight.
Physicians Building
Originally, Fourteenth Street was known for the doctor’s offices that were found there.
Totalism
The building was once the school administration building, and so the site of demonstrations for racial integration.
