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Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Scenic Railroad in Durango, Colorado

Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Scenic Railroad in Durango, Colorado

Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Reconnaissance de la Route de Durango a Mondragón

Reconnaissance de la Route de Durango a Mondragón

Comprende parte de los términos municipales de Durango, Aptxondo, Abadiano y Elorrio, en la provincia de Vizcaya, y del de Mondragón en la de Guipúzcoa, pasando, entre otras, por las villas de Abadiano, Apatamo... More

Reconnaissance of the country from Parras via Peña, Alamo de Parras, and the forks of the roads to Zacatecas and Durango, returning via Los Hornos, the road to Chihuahua and Pozo.

Reconnaissance of the country from Parras via Peña, Alamo de Parras, a...

Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink, red ink, and pencil on tracing paper. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 581 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

View of Durango from the santuario.

View of Durango from the santuario.

Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cabin on Milton McCloskey's ranch. Up Animas Valley, Durango, Colo. Sept. 1892, F.E.D.M.; Animas City, 1892, "Up the Valley from Durango"; Milton's Bachelor's Hall at Animas City (before the R.R. built Durango and ruined Animas); Mountain cabin, a few miles from Durango, vacation view, Mabel McCloskey, Downs hidden by armful of flowers, Fan Barbour, Reese McCloskey.

Cabin on Milton McCloskey's ranch. Up Animas Valley, Durango, Colo. Se...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Wash day in Mexico /. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Wash day in Mexico /. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

"Mexican International R. R. Series: the interesting views catalogued below were photographed by our artists, while enjoying the special privileges extended to Mr. Edison's party. Under a broad and intelligent ... More

Durango, Col., Fall 1900: Frank with Downs McCloskey, Mabel. Third Avenue; Durango, Mabel's sitting room, 1900; Mabel's dining room; Mable in her sitting room, Reese holding Downs.
Tabernacle, Salt Lake City; Temple, Salt Lake City, 1900; Rico, Colorado, Oct 1900; Indians sitting on log, at Fair, Durango, Colorado, Oct. 1900, Frank, Nettie and Buckingham at Durango, Colo., at the park.

Tabernacle, Salt Lake City; Temple, Salt Lake City, 1900; Rico, Colora...

Public domain photograph of temple building, religious architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Durango, 1900: Downs and Percy. "Cause we love each other so"; Downs and Percy in McCloskey's back yard, sand pile, "Capt. Kidd", a relic, hanging from fence; Pagosa, Colorado, 1900: Near Pagosa Hot Springs, the white is a mineral crust. Below Downs' feet is boiling water. Misty look is steam. Nettie, Reese, Mabel, Downs, Frank.

Durango, 1900: Downs and Percy. "Cause we love each other so"; Downs a...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Photograph of Chief Ignacio and his horse / by Frank S. Balster, Durango, Colorado.

Photograph of Chief Ignacio and his horse / by Frank S. Balster, Duran...

H47240 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mapa del estado de Durango, Republica Mexicana

Mapa del estado de Durango, Republica Mexicana

Public domain scan of vintage 18th-century map, old atlas, navigation, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Main St. of Durango, Mexico during war

Main St. of Durango, Mexico during war

Public domain photograph of building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Making reinforced concrete pipe, Durango, Mex.
Mexico Durango - A black and white photo of a horse drawn carriage

Mexico Durango - A black and white photo of a horse drawn carriage

Public domain photograph of Mexico city, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On the aqueduct, Guadalupe, Mexico, Stereoscope Card

On the aqueduct, Guadalupe, Mexico, Stereoscope Card

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexican rurales in Gómez Palacio

Mexican rurales in Gómez Palacio

J148812 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by American Press Association, New York.

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Miscellaneous - Red Cross Benefit. Bull auction, Durango, Colorado

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Miscellaneous - Red Cross Bene...

Photographer: Camera Store, Durango, Colo. American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Miscellaneous

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Colorado - La Plata County - Durango - ED 34-1 - ED 34-9

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Colorado - La Plata County - D...

Enumeration District Maps for La Plata County, Colorado

Rio Grande canyon, Colorado. Pack train heading for camp on an old road used 60 years ago for freighting between Denver and Pueblo and Silverton and Durango

Rio Grande canyon, Colorado. Pack train heading for camp on an old roa...

Public domain photograph of Grand Canyon National Park, mountains, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man on a horse, Sheepherder near Durango, Colorado

A black and white photo of a man on a horse, Sheepherder near Durango,...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of two donkeys pulling a cart, possibly related to: Pack train of sheepherder near Durango, Colorado

A black and white photo of two donkeys pulling a cart, possibly relate...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A black and white photo of two donkeys pulling a cart, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of two donkeys pulling a cart, Colorado. Farm ...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pack train of sheepherder near Durango, Colorado

Pack train of sheepherder near Durango, Colorado

Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sheepherder near Durango, Colorado

Sheepherder near Durango, Colorado

Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Locomotives in roundhouse. Durango. Colorado

Locomotives in roundhouse. Durango. Colorado

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Residential district of Durango, Colorado. Durango is trading, shipping and distribution center of southwestern Colorado

Residential district of Durango, Colorado. Durango is trading, shippin...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Roundhouse and turntable of railroad at Durango, Colorado

Roundhouse and turntable of railroad at Durango, Colorado

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Residential district of Durango, Colorado

Residential district of Durango, Colorado

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Railroad yards. Durango, Colorado

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Railroad yards. Dura...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Railroad yards. Durango, Colorado

Railroad yards. Durango, Colorado

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Motor locomotive of railroad equiped with snow plow. Durango, Colorado

Motor locomotive of railroad equiped with snow plow. Durango, Colorado

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Wheels used on railway coaches and cars. Railroad shops at Durango, Colorado

Wheels used on railway coaches and cars. Railroad shops at Durango, Co...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Motor locomotive of railroad equiped with snow plow. Durango, Colorado

Motor locomotive of railroad equiped with snow plow. Durango, Colorado

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Residential district of Durango, Colorado. Durango is trading, shipping and distribution center of southwestern Colorado

Residential district of Durango, Colorado. Durango is trading, shippin...

Public domain photograph of mountain view, valley, mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wheels used on railway coaches and cars. Railroad shops at Durango, Colorado

Wheels used on railway coaches and cars. Railroad shops at Durango, Co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a train station, Locomotives in roundhouse. Durango. Colorado

A black and white photo of a train station, Locomotives in roundhouse....

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a small town, Durango, Colorado. Residential district

A black and white photo of a small town, Durango, Colorado. Residentia...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a town in the mountains, Residential district of Durango, Colorado

A black and white photo of a town in the mountains, Residential distri...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Durango, Colorado. Residential district

Durango, Colorado. Residential district

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Roundhouse and turntable of railroad at Durango, Colorado

Roundhouse and turntable of railroad at Durango, Colorado

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Ägare:/1959-78/: Naviera Vizcaina S.A. Hemort: Bilbao.

Ägare:/1959-78/: Naviera Vizcaina S.A. Hemort: Bilbao.

Ägare:/1959-78/: Naviera Vizcaina S.A. Hemort: Bilbao.

Alamo Madre Acequia, East of Alamo Street, North of Durango Boulevard, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Alamo Madre Acequia, East of Alamo Street, North of Durango Boulevard,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HAER TX-1-C Building/structure dates: 17h1 Initial Construction

Chief Restaurant sign, Durango, Colorado

Chief Restaurant sign, Durango, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More

Vintage cars at the Strater Hotel, Durango, Colorado

Vintage cars at the Strater Hotel, Durango, Colorado

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Steam engine on the Durango & Silverton Railroad sightseeing line, Durango, Colorado

Steam engine on the Durango & Silverton Railroad sightseeing line, Dur...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Four Winds motel sign, Durango, Colorado

Four Winds motel sign, Durango, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More

Siesta Motel sign, Durango, Colorado

Siesta Motel sign, Durango, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More

Strater Hotel, straight-on view, Main Street, Durango, Colorado

Strater Hotel, straight-on view, Main Street, Durango, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Hotels; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside Ameri... More

Silver Spur Motel sign, Durango, Colorado

Silver Spur Motel sign, Durango, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More

San Juan Skyway - Informative Kiosks on the San Juan Skyway

San Juan Skyway - Informative Kiosks on the San Juan Skyway

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Visitors stop by an informative kiosk at the Durango Visitor Center along the San Juan Skyway. Location: Durango, Colorado (37.269° N 1... More

San Juan Skyway - Durango Train

San Juan Skyway - Durango Train

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: A brightly colored train rounds a corner along San Juan Skyway. Location: Colorado (37.500° N 107.787° W) Status: Public domain. Photo... More

The transport ship DURANGO (B 01), the destroyer QUETZALCOATL (E 03), formerly the USS VOGELSANG (DD 862), and the sail training ship CUAUAHTEMOC (A 07) tied up at the Naval Base Acapulco. These ships are units of the Mexican Navy

The transport ship DURANGO (B 01), the destroyer QUETZALCOATL (E 03), ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Acapulco Country: Mexico (MEX) Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.) Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service ... More

A view of the Mexican Navy units tired up at the Naval Base Acapulco. The transport ship DURANGO (B 01), the destroyer QUETZALCOATL (E 03), formerly the USS VOGELSANG (DD 862), and the sail training ship CUAUAHTEMOC (A 07) are visible. Three Azteca class patrol boats can be seen to the right of these ships

A view of the Mexican Navy units tired up at the Naval Base Acapulco. ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Acapulco Country: Mexico (MEX) Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.) Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service ... More

The 1916 Durango High School Building, as of this writing (in 2015) the city's school administration building, in Durango, Colorado

The 1916 Durango High School Building, as of this writing (in 2015) th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was designed by two prominent Colorado Springs architects, Charles S. Thomas and Thomas MacLaren, and built in 1916. Credit line: G... More

Reception desk in the lobby of the Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado

Reception desk in the lobby of the Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 durin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater con... More

The 1892, rosy purple-sandstone Burns National Bank Building in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The 1892, rosy purple-sandstone Burns National Bank Building in Durang...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

All are aboard, and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train is ready for departure from the Durango, Colorado, station, which was built in 1882 and has been maintained in its original state

All are aboard, and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&S...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

The distinctive, pale yellow and chocolate brown depot of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, perhaps America's most celebrated steam train, in Durango, Colorado

The distinctive, pale yellow and chocolate brown depot of the Durango ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. English mining engineer J.H. Ernest Waters designed the building, which rose in 1882. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Colle... More

View of the rushing Animas River and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG), a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado

View of the rushing Animas River and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Ga...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The route was originally opened in 1882 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railway to transport silver and gold ore mined from the San Juan Mo... More

Old sign for the S. G. Wall Drug Co. on a building that is now a cafe in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

Old sign for the S. G. Wall Drug Co. on a building that is now a cafe ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

A corner of the Animas Museum, a local-history museum operated by the La Plata County Historical Society in the 1904 City School Building, a three-story sandstone structure constructed in 1904-1905 in what was then Animas City above what is now Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

A corner of the Animas Museum, a local-history museum operated by the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Animas Museum, a local-history museum operated by the La Plata County Historical Society in the 1904 City School Building, a three-story sandstone structure constructed in 1904-1905 in what was then Animas City above what is now Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The Animas Museum, a local-history museum operated by the La Plata Cou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater con... More

A quiet corner of the Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado

A quiet corner of the Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining bo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater con... More

The Joy Cabin, on the grounds of the Animas Museum, a local-history museum operated by the La Plata County Historical Society in the 1904 City School Building, a three-story sandstone structure constructed in 1904-1905 in what was then Animas City above what is now Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The Joy Cabin, on the grounds of the Animas Museum, a local-history mu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in the 1870s, the Joy Cabin is said to be the oldest intact structure left in the Durango area. The 16 x 25-foot foot log cabin ... More

The 1883 Wigglesworth House, once home to town manager William Hudson Wigglesworth, in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The 1883 Wigglesworth House, once home to town manager William Hudson ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

Reed Library, the campus library at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado

Reed Library, the campus library at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Because of its unique origins as a military fort turned American Indian boarding school turned state public school, Fort Lewis College... More

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train has plenty of coal and is ready for departure from Durango, Colorado

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train has plenty...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

Signs for the El Rancho Tavern and old Central Hotel, for which the 1892 building was constructed, on Main Avenue in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

Signs for the El Rancho Tavern and old Central Hotel, for which the 18...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

The 1892 Central Hotel, right, and an adjacent commercial building in Durango, Colorado

The 1892 Central Hotel, right, and an adjacent commercial building in ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On the first floor is the El Rancho Tavern, where 20-year-old future heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey's victory over Andy Mall... More

The 1924 First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Durango, Colorado

The 1924 First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Durango, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

View of the Animas River from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train as it heads north through La Plata County from Durango, Colorado

View of the Animas River from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Rai...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

The 1889 Main Avenue Furnishings Building (once home to the Balthasar Kern Saloon and more recently, in 2015, the Animas Trading Co. store) in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The 1889 Main Avenue Furnishings Building (once home to the Balthasar ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

The 1892 Italianate building housing the El Rancho Tavern and Central Hotel on Main Avenue in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The 1892 Italianate building housing the El Rancho Tavern and Central ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

The signature clock tower at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado

The signature clock tower at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Because of its unique origins as a military fort turned American Indian boarding school turned state public school, Fort Lewis College... More

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up and ready to leave the Durango, Colorado, station

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up an...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

Mountain view from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train as it chugs northward (at 13 miles an hour) from Durango through La Plata County, Colorado

Mountain view from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SN...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

View of the Animas River from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train as it heads north through La Plata County from Durango, Colorado

View of the Animas River from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Rai...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

A lengthy staircase leading down a hill toward an amphitheater containing a signature clock tower at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado

A lengthy staircase leading down a hill toward an amphitheater contain...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The hilly campus is located high above the southwestern-Colorado city. Because of its unique origins as a military fort turned America... More

A conductor aboard the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train as it heads north through La Plata County from Durango, Colorado

A conductor aboard the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SN...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

The 1892 building (right) constructed as the Central Hotel and now housing the El Rancho Tavern on Main Avenue in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The 1892 building (right) constructed as the Central Hotel and now hou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater con... More

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train chugs northward from Durango through La Plata County, Colorado

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train chugs nort...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

View of the rushing Animas River beneath a foot bridge near the route of Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG), a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado

View of the rushing Animas River beneath a foot bridge near the route ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The route was originally opened in 1882 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railway to transport silver and gold ore mined from the San Juan Mo... More

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater con... More

The public library in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The public library in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

Hood Mortuary, long occupying the 1888 Amy Mansion, considered Durango, Colorado's finest home

Hood Mortuary, long occupying the 1888 Amy Mansion, considered Durango...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The house was constructed for Ernest Amy, manager of the San Juan Smelter outside town. Durango newspapers compared the house to "a Ne... More

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up and ready to leave the Durango, Colorado, station

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up an...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

Muralist Tom McMurray's depiction of a 1915 non-championship heavyweight boxing fight in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

Muralist Tom McMurray's depiction of a 1915 non-championship heavyweig...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mural shows future champion Jack Dempsey's knockdown of Andy Malloy, whom he defeated by decision in a ten-round bout. The mural f... More

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up and ready to leave the Durango, Colorado, station

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up an...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) steam train crosses a trestle in La Plata County, Colorado

A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) steam train crosse...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route was originally opened in 1882 by... More

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train chugs northward from Durango through La Plata County, Colorado

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train chugs nort...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) steam train crosses a trestle in La Plata County, Colorado

A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) steam train crosse...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route was originally opened in 1882 by... More

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, built in 1892 to replace a church lost in a fire that destroyed much of Durango, Colorado in 1889

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, built in 1892 to replace a church lost in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up and ready to leave the Durango, Colorado, station

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up an...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The D&SNG is a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado. The route ... More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Rebeca Linden de Romero,

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Rebeca Linden de Romero,

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Rebeca Linden de Romero, 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron non-destructive inspection technician, sprays a magnetic particle solution on an aircraft component before performing ... More

The rodeo arena at the La Plata County Fairgrounds in Durango, Colorado

The rodeo arena at the La Plata County Fairgrounds in Durango, Colorad...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Steam locomotive in the trainyard of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Scenic Railroad in Durango, Colorado

Steam locomotive in the trainyard of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Ga...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Bar D Wranglers, a sometimes-comedic western-music quartet, performs at the Bar D Chuckwagon stage show following a barbecue supper in Durango, Colorado

The Bar D Wranglers, a sometimes-comedic western-music quartet, perfor...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. They are joined by the attraction's owner, Cy Scarborough (center, holding a microphone), for the show's final numbers. Patrons also h... More

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