Stunning Historical Photos of Denver at the Turn of the 20th Century

#1 View of 17th Street from Union Station, featuring Welcome Arch and Hendrie-Bolthoff building, 1906

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#2 Passengers ride on Denver Tramway cars No. 74 and 63 at West 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street, Denver, 1900

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#3 Construction site for Denver Tramway’s storage yard at Jason Avenue and Bayaud Street, 1904

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#4 Boys in a woodworking workshop at Denver Orphans’ Home, showcasing worktables and lumber racks, 1900s

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#5 View of Tremont Street featuring Trinity Methodist Church, Republic Building, and YWCA among others, 1900s

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#6 Denver Tramway trolley No. 112 in front of Brown Palace Hotel with various signs, 1905.

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#7 Denver Tramway “Seeing The Foothills” trolley on 17th Street, featuring Brown Palace and Savoy Hotel, 1905.

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#8 Lily Pond and Rock Garden at Washington Park, Denver, 1900s

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#9 Women and Girl in a Canoe on Smith Lake, Washington Park, Denver, 1900

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#10 Apartments at 12th and Pennsylvania Streets, Featuring a Portico with Columns, Denver, 1909.

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#11 Denver Bears Baseball Team with Identified Members, 1900s

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#12 Yard at 742 South Emerson Street with a Girl Feeding Chickens, Denver, 1907.

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#13 Street Sprinkling Department in Parade, Denver, 1905

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#14 Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Employees Posing by a Boxcar, 1900s

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#15 Denver and Rio Grande Railway Engine

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#16 Denver Tramway Power house and South Platte River, featuring 14th Street viaduct, 1905.

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#17 Apartments in Denver featuring porticos with columns, 1909.

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#18 Berkeley Park Beach on Berkeley Lake, Denver, 1900s

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#19 Italianate-style Haish Manual Training School at the University of Denver, located at 14th and Arapahoe Streets, 1900.

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#20 Denver Republican Newspaper building at 1118 16th Street, featuring pedestrians and storefronts, 1900s

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#21 Workers dismantle old Denver Tramway Company cars, emitting smoke from the debris, 1900s

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#22 Denver and Rio Grande Railroad engine No. 701 arrives at Union Station with a view of tracks and buildings, 1900s

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#23 Denver County Courthouse at 15th and Tremont Street, featuring pedestrians and a street car, 1902

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#24 ‘ on 30th Avenue and Zuni Street, featuring the “Wheat Ridge” sign, 1900

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#25 Denver City Tramway Company ‘Steam Dummy

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#26 Exterior of Saint Anthony’s Hospital at West 16th Avenue and Quitman Street, founded by the Sisters of St. Francis Seraph, 1905.

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#27 West Denver High School women’s basketball team with their coach, featuring ‘W’ on their uniforms, 1908.

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#28 Pedestrians and buggies near the Denver County Courthouse, formerly known as Arapahoe County Courthouse, 1900s

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#29 Denver Tramway trolleys at Colfax Street and Broadway, featuring Denver Fire Department’s Engine House No. One, 1905.

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#30 Girls sewing in a classroom at the Denver Orphans’ Home on Albion Street, 1900s

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#31 Men in a ward of Denver General Hospital with empty beds and curtains, 1900s

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#32 View of 18th Street featuring various businesses and Denver Cable Car power plant, 1900

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#33 Engine House Number One being dismantled at the corner of Colfax and Broadway, featuring stagecoach and flags, 1909.

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#34 Victorian house at 1st Avenue and Grant Street, featuring Denver Tramway trolley and horse-drawn coach, 1905.

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#35 Denver Tramway trolley No. 230 in front of Union Station, featuring advertisement for Broadway play, 1905.

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#36 American Furniture Company warehouse at 1542 Lawrence Street, featuring horse-drawn wagons, 1905.

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#37 Leyden Mine coal trains with Denver & Northwestern Railway cars, featuring Alcott Public School, 1905.

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#38 Denver Tramway trolley at the entrance to Elitch Gardens on West 38th Avenue, flanked by billboards, 1905.

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#39 Columned gateway at 4th Avenue and Franklin Street in the Denver Country Club neighborhood, 1907

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#40 Governor Henry Augustus Buchtel speaks at Denver Public Library cornerstone ceremony, 1907.

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#41 Panoramic View of Denver from the Capitol Building, showcasing landmarks like Denver Fire Department Engine House No. 1 and St. Elizabeth Church, 1907

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#42 Boys Marching in a Denver Parade, showcasing Juvenile Improvement Association Denver Post Boys Band, 1907

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#43 Men and Medical Staff in the Tuberculosis Ward at Denver General Hospital, 1907

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#44 Children Playing Croquet at Detention Home School, Denver, 1903.

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#45 Larimer Street and Pioneer Building, an Italianate Style Structure, Denver, 1900s

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#46 Denver City Cable Railway Company Cable House, 1906.

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#47 Ernest and Cranmer Building with Various Businesses, Denver, 1905

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#48 Denver Turnverein Meeting Hall, showcasing its brick architecture and arched entry, 1900

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#49 Denver Tramway Company Car

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#50 Intersection of Speer Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue, featuring a horse trough and landscaping, Denver, 1900s

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#51 Street Cleaning Parade at Broadway and 16th Streets, Denver, 1905

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#52 Denver Club Building, a Victorian Romanesque Style Structure, 1900.

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#53 Panoramic View of Denver with Landmarks like the Arapahoe County Courthouse, 1900s

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#54 Cheesman Memorial Pavilion in Cheesman Park, Denver, 1909

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#55 Cheesman Park Memorial Pavilion and Landscaping, Denver, 1909.

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#56 16th Street from Arapahoe Street Featuring Tabor Opera House, Denver, 1907.

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#57 Businesses on 16th Street Viewed from Stout Street, Denver, 1905

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#58 Street Scene at 16th and Lawrence Streets, Denver, 1900s

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#59 Denver Tramway Company Trolley

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#60 Denver Tramway trolleys at the intersection of 17th and California, featuring various businesses and pedestrians, 1905.

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#61 Trolley number 200 on 17th Avenue and Emerson Street, featuring young girls on the corner, 1905.

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#62 Girls by City Park Lake, people at pavilion benches, and a band performing, 1905.

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#63 Speer Boulevard under construction, featuring horse and mule-drawn grading equipment, 1900s

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#64 Trolleys number 45 and 42 at 16th and Champa, featuring various business signs and traffic, 1905.

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#65 Arapahoe County Courthouse at 16th and Tremont, built in 1883 and later razed in 1934, 1902.

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#66 Trolleys number 36 and 333 on 15th Street, featuring various business signs and pedestrians, 1905.

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#67 Men shaking hands outside Albany Hotel, featuring railroad signs and a barbershop pole, 1900s

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#68 Furnaces and machinery inside the Denver Tramway Company power station, 1905.

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#69 View down 15th Street from Welton, featuring various modes of transport, 1900

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#70 Trolley number 237 on Broadway, featuring various landmarks and billboards, 1905.

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#71 Trolley number 67 at Union Station on 16th Street viaduct, featuring a covered stop, 1905.

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#72 Moffat Road Station, featuring parked cars and billboards, 1905

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#73 Businesses on Blake Street, featuring various types of signage, 1905

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#74 Workers inside the Denver Tramway Company machine shop, 1900s

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#75 Denver Tramway Company supply yard, featuring stacks of lumber and stone, 1900s

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#76 Walter Scott Cheesman’s residence, later known as Governor’s Mansion, featuring Colonial Revival architecture, 1908

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#77 Denver and Rio Grande ticket office in Albany Hotel, featuring pedestrians and newsboys, 1909.

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#78 View of 17th Street, featuring pedestrians and a streetcar, 1900s

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#79 Denver Public Library construction, featuring stone walls and John A. McIntyre, 1906.

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#80 Denver Dry Goods building, featuring early automobiles and various signs, 1908.

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#81 Denver Public Library construction, featuring stone entablature and steel girders, 1907.

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#82 Denver’s new motor street cleaner and motor trucks, featuring men posing, 1900s

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#83 Denver City Hall on 14th Street, featuring a trolley car and bicycles, 1900s

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#84 Boulevard United Presbyterian Church, featuring a bell tower and stained-glass windows, 1900s

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#85 African American man and woman on horseback participate in a parade on 17th Street, Denver, Colorado, marching band and U.S. flags visible, 1900s

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#86 Marching band and spectators during a parade on 17th Street, Denver, featuring a banner for the National Association of Civil War Musicians, 1900s

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#87 Parade on 17th Street, Denver with marching band, spectators, and signs on buildings for various businesses, 1900s

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#88 Exterior of Young Women’s Christian Association building in Denver, adjacent to brick residences, built in 1899 and demolished in 1971

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#89 Ice skating on Smith Lake at Washington Park, Denver, with spectators near the boat pavilion, 1900

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#90 Crane from Colorado and Southern Railway works on new bridge over Alameda Avenue, Denver, spectators and boxcars in distance, 1909.

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#91 Rooftop view of Denver Post Office at 16th and Arapahoe Street, streetcars and pedestrians visible, 1900s

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#92 Night view of Golden Eagle Dry Goods Store at 16th and Lawrence Streets, Denver, featuring electric lights, 1901

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#93 Men pose by concrete forms during flood control construction in Denver, 1900s

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#94 McLellan Gate at City Park, Denver, showing cars and pedestrians, completed in 1904

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#95 Denver Municipal Auditorium featuring a stone building with domes, 1908

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#96 Children pose outside Denver Post office, possibly delivery boys and girls, with a dog, 1900s

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#97 Exterior of Denver High School featuring Victorian Gothic architecture, located at 19th and Stout Streets, 1900s

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#98 Construction of Denver Public Library halted by snow, Civic Center and Engine House Number One in background, 1900s

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#99 Denver Public Library construction site featuring crane and snow-covered materials, Civic Center houses visible, 1900s

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#100 Cornerstone ceremony at Denver Public Library construction site, crowd and automobile visible, 1900s

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#101 Neighborhood House Association building in Lincoln Park, Denver, woman and children on porch, 1902.

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#102 Worker at Omaha-Grant smelter in Denver drawing slag from an oven, 1900s

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#103 St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Denver, featuring classical architecture, 1900s

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#104 Governor Henry Buchtel speaking at Denver Public Library cornerstone ceremony, U.S. flag in background, 1900s

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#105 Shorter African Methodist Episcopal Church in Denver, featuring stone trim and gothic arches, 1900s

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#106 Rabbi Friedman makes invocation at cornerstone ceremony for Denver Public Library, crowd visible, 1900s

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#107 View of McLellan Gate at City Park, Denver, horse-drawn buggy and streetlight visible, 1904

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#108 Intersection of Glenarm and 15th Streets in Denver, pedestrians and streetcars visible, 1900s

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#109 Denver City Tramway Central Loop at 15th and Arapahoe Streets, trolley approaching passenger pavilion, 1900s

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#110 Intersection of 15th and Glenarm Streets in Denver, featuring cars, a streetcar, and Christmas trees, 1900s

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#111 St. Paul’s English Lutheran Church in Denver, featuring gothic arches and stained glass, 1900s

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#112 Dean Peck’s Training School for Girls in Denver, stone building with arched windows, 1900s

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#113 Exterior View of Denver Municipal Auditorium, Neoclassical Features and Horse-Drawn Carriage, 1900s

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#114 Denver Public Library at Colfax Avenue and Bannock Street with Seal Fountain Nearby, 1909

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#115 Residential Pennsylvania Street in Denver Showcasing Brick Houses and Young Trees, 1900

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#116 Firemen Posing in Front of Denver Fire Department Headquarters at City Hall, 1900s

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#117 Denver Sanitation Street Sweepers at Broadway and 16th Streets, 1905

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#118 Street Oiling in Denver, Kids Watch as Truck Applies Oil, 1905

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#119 Women Working in Denver Public Library’s Catalog Department, 1900s

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#120 Children at Elyria Park Playground in Poorer Section of Denver, 1900s

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#121 Panorama of Denver from State Capitol Building, 1900s

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#122 16th and Stout Streets in Downtown Denver with Christmas Decorations, 1900s

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#123 Denver Tramway Car 190 on Busy 16th Street, 1900s

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#124 Third Congregational Church at West 5th Avenue and Fox Street, 1900s

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#125 Two-Story Residence in Denver with Covered Porch and Gable Roof, 1900s

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#126 Denver, Leadville & Gunnison Railway at Pine, Colorado, 1900s

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#127 Houses on Acoma Street with Covered Porches and Metal Fences, 1900s

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#128 Houses at 1445 and 1447 Acoma Street in Civic Center, Denver, 1900s

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#129 Man and Woman in Canoe on City Park Lake, Denver Museum in Distance, 1900s

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#130 “Seeing Denver” Electric Tour Coach at 17th and Tremont Street, 1900s

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#131 Denver City Tramway Car near Union Station, 1909

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#132 Construction Crew Working Near Alameda Avenue Bridge, 1900s

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#133 H. D. Martin Undertaking Co. on West Colfax Avenue, 1900s

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#134 Denver Tramway Trolley by Kittredge Building on 16th Street, 1905

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#135 Denver Tramway Trolley on West 23rd Avenue, 1905

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#136 Stout Street in Denver with Cars and Denver Tramway Streetcar, 1900s

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#137 View from 17th Street to Tremont Place, Denver, 1907

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#138 Cherry Creek and Lawrence Street Bridge, Denver, 1907

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#139 People Near East Denver High School at 19th and Stout Streets, 1900s

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#140 Denver Tramway Garage on Gilpin Street, Workers Posing, 1905

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#141 Morse Brothers Machinery & Supply Co. at 18th & Lawrence, 1905

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#142 Denver Tramway trolleys on 15th Street featuring signs like “John Thompson Grocery Co.”, 1905.

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#143 DTC Park Hill trolley 230 on 17th Street, featuring signs like “Boston Lunch”, 1905.

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#144 Trolley 152 on Bannock Street with Colorado General Hospital in background, 1905.

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#145 U.S. Post Office on 16th and Arapahoe Streets, featuring Second Empire style architecture, 1905.

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#146 Saint Mary’s Academy, Capitol Hill, Denver featuring stone trim and a cross, 1900s

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#147 DTC trolleys on 38th at Tennyson, featuring Leyden Coal Co. sign, 1905.

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#148 DTC garage on 38th Avenue with Leyden Coal Co. and Wilcox Drug store, 1905.

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#149 Interior of DTC garage on 4th Avenue, featuring trolleys number 195, 151, 72, and 240, 1905.

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#150 DTC trolley 339 on Colfax Avenue near Lawrence C. Phipps home, 1905.

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#151 Oakes Home on West 32nd Avenue, opened in September 1895, 1904

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#152 DTC garage on 30th Avenue featuring trolley number 63, 1905.

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#153 Freemason Temple, South Denver Lodge Number 93, 1907.

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#154 Denver Fire Department man and horses, 1900s

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#155 Fireman’s Race For Life filming on 16th Street, 1902.

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#156 Unknown DTC station featuring trolleys Lawrence Street 214, Larimer Street 183, 1905.

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#157 DTC trolleys at 15th Street stop between Arapahoe & Lawrence, 1905.

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#158 East Denver High School students outside the building, 1900s

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#159 McPhee Building on 17th and Glenarm, featuring early automobiles, 1906.

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#160 Denver Tramway Company supply yard with lumber and steel tracks, 1900s

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#161 Denver Dog Pound with officials and dog, 1909.

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#162 17th Street featuring Denver City Tramway Company car 236, 1900s

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#163 15th Street on a busy day featuring car number 358, 1908

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#164 Campsite at Rocky Mountain Lake, Berkeley neighborhood, 1900s

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#165 Denver Public Library construction in Civic Center, 1906.

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#166 Denver Tramway Company car 63 at Berkeley Loop, 1900s

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#167 Cornerstone ceremony at Denver Public Library, 1907.

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#168 Denver Public Library construction, northeastern corner, 1907.

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#169 Denver Public Library construction, Civic Center neighborhood, 1907.

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#170 Denver General Hospital and Home For Nurses, 1900s

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#171 Boys in front of Denver Boys Club classroom, 1900s

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#172 Construction site near South Platte River, featuring Pride of the Rockies Flour Mill and 20th Street Viaduct, 1900s

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#173 Street Cleaning Division with Flushing Machines in Parade, Denver, 1905

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