McPhee and Colorado

Montezuma Lumber Co. narrow gauge locomotive, engine number 271, engine type 2-8-0
Creator(s) Perry, Otto, 1894-1970.
Summary: Three-quarter view of left side of engine, from front end. Photographed: McPhee, Colo., June 18, 1942.
Date 1942
Notes: Title from catalog prepared by Western History Department, Denver Public Library.; R7000132572
Physical Description 1 photonegative ; 9 x 14 cm.; 1 photoprint : silver gelatin, b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
Is Part Of Otto C. Perry memorial collection of railroad photographs.
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.

McPhee-McGinnity employees
Summary: Employees of the McPhee-McGinnity Manufacturing Company pose on horse-drawn wagons near the company's warehouse at 23rd (Twenty-third) and Blake Streets in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Lettering on the one-story corrugated metal building reads: "Paint Warehouse McPhee and McGinnity Company."
Date [between 1880 and 1900?]
Notes Formerly F14424.; Title supplied.; R7100244639
Physical Description 1 photoprint ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.)
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.

McPhee Bldg., Denver
Other title: McPhee Building, Denver. L. C. McClure collection 1890-1935, album I, 128
Creator(s) McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957.
Summary: Exterior view of McPhee Building, 17th (Seventeenth) and Glenarm, Denver, Colorado; constructed in 1890 and demolished in 1975 for highrise building; J. George Leyner Engineering Company (1707 Glenarm Place) manufacturers of air compressors and rock drills located on first floor; horse-drawn carriages, bicycles and early automobile parked at curb.
Date [between 1906 and 1912]
Notes:Copy negative made from vintage photographic print.; Title and signature hand-lettered on glass plate.; R7000708276
Physical Description 1 copy photonegative ; 9 x 11 cm. (3 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.); 1 photonegative : glass ; 21 x 26 cm. (8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint ; 19 x 24 cm. (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Is Part Of L. C. McClure collection 1890-1935.
L. C. McClure collection 1890-1935, album I.
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.

McPhee residence
Creator(s) Rocky Mountain Photo Company.
Summary: View of the McPhee home at 637 East 8th (Eighth) Avenue and Washington Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features quoins, a portico, classical entablature, covered porches, and a detached garage.
Date [between 1910 and 1920?]
Notes Formerly F16075 and RMP4444.; Inked on negative sleeve: "Phipps, Lawrence Cowle" [sic].; Title penciled on back of photoprint.; R7100267865
Physical Description 1 photonegative : nitrate ; 20 x 25 cm. ( 8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint ; 20 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.

Construction near Capital

Shot this from the front of the library January, 2011, looking back toward the dome.

Gates Rubber about 1925

"The founding of the company in Colorado was an accident. The two Gates brothers came here after graduating form the University of Michigan as mining engineers to engage in mining. When this business did not pan out, they invested their capital of $1500 in leather halters and gradually branched out into the rubber business. They formed a closed corporation and have developed a business, which in 1940 sold 16 million dollars worth of goods. Their payroll of $4,3000,000 was distributed among 3,200 employees….
"Five thousand different articles are made by the company. About 30 per cent of the business is devoted to the manufacture of tires and tubes-70 per cent of the products being other types of rubber goods."
Source: “Gates Rubber Company,” in “Industry and Commerce, Sketches of Denver,” Writers’ Program, Colorado, Colorado Historical Society Library, [1940]. From Doing History: Keeping the Past. University of Northern Colorado.