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Horses on treadmill to power a water pump, Denver, CO, ca. 1910.

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This unmailed photo postcard shows two horses on a wooden-slatted treadmill connected via belt and pulley to a water pump. A treadmill used in such a way to power another…

Photo postcard of the Nicholas G. Kendel shoe repair shop, 1435 Stout Street, Denver, CO, ca. 1914.

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Nicholas, who probably went by “Nick,” was an Ohioan born in 1862. By 1881, Nick had established himself as a shoemaker in Denver, and it was on June 20, 1888,…

Photo postcard of Bert J. Dibble mortuary, 56 South Broadway, Denver, CO, ca. 1910.

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Bert J. Dibble was born in Binghamton, NY, on September 2, 1877, to Charles and Alice (Benedict) Dibble and spent most of his life in Binghamton. His father was an…

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!

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