Historic Colorado

Automobiles and a pedestrian make their way through water by Union Station at 17th (Seventeenth) and Wynkoop Streets during the Cherry Creek flood which resulted from the Castlewood Dam break of 1933, Denver, Colorado. A spare tire cover on the back of one automobile reads: "Quaker State Motor Oil And Greases Best For All Cars Sommers Oil Co".

A streetcar conductor and a streetcar operator pose with Denver City Tramway Company car number 68 on Larimer Street between 16th and 17th streets in 1906. (J.E. Kunkle/Western History and Genealogy/Denver Public Library)

Crowds arrive to see 'The Healer' in Denver, 1895.