Blog

Denver Tramway cars overturned by strikers in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at Colfax and Logan in the first week of August, 1920.

Post author:jcamenga
Post published:March 30, 2025
Post category:Denver
Post comments:0 Comments

At 5:30 a.m. Sunday, August 1, 1920, more than 1,100 Denver Tramway Company employees, members of Local 746 of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Railway Employees of America, voted…

Photo postcard of William Perdieu standing at the front with sugar beet crew on his farm south of Platteville, CO, ca. 1908.

Post author:jcamenga
Post published:March 9, 2025
Post category:Fort Vasquez
Post comments:0 Comments

William Nuton Perdieu was born in Indiana on June 25, 1885, the fifth of six children of Caleb Clinton and Ellen (Callahan) Perdieu. When William was three months old, his…

Denver Police Department Mug Shot of Kurth Jack Kelm dated February 2, 1950, Denver, Colorado.

Post author:jcamenga
Post published:February 14, 2025
Post category:Denver
Post comments:0 Comments

Career criminal Kurth Jack Kelm was born on November 21, 1906, to parents Herman and Victoria Kelm. (Depending on when he was asked, “Where were you born?” Kelm would respond…

Photo Postcard of Nettie M. Hornback, Montrose, Colorado, ca. 1911

Post author:jcamenga
Post published:January 21, 2025
Post category:Montrose
Post comments:0 Comments

This is a photo postcard of Nettie Hornback, which Nettie mailed to her father, Ross W. Hornback of Gardner, Colorado, on Valentine’s Day, 1911. Nettie wrote: “Dear Papa, Here is…

1
2
3
4
…
41
Go to the next page

Welcome to my blog of old Colorado photos. I’ve always loved old photos, and given my interest in history, it was probably inevitable that I would be drawn to the idea of collecting old images of the Colorado town where I grew up, i.e., Fort Lupton. Fort Lupton sits on the South Platte River, about halfway between Denver and Greeley, at the western edge of the Great Plains.

I grew up feeling more connected to the eastern half of the state than to the western half. Maybe that was because I knew the plains were just out the back door of Fort Lupton, so to speak, or simply because I was more familiar with the names of towns to the east. So, a few years ago, when I decided to expand my collecting beyond Fort Lupton, I leaned east. Since then, though, I’ve gotten the bug for expanding my collection to the entire state. You'll find that, in its current state, my blog is weighted toward images of Fort Lupton, eastern and northern Colorado, but that will shift as I steadily add images from the Colorado Rockies and western slope.

I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I enjoy building and tending to it. Please feel free to leave comments!

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado

Blog

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Calhan, CO

Jack’s Old Photos of Colorado

Blog

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Jack’s Old Photos of Colorado

Blog

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Calhan, CO

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado