Salida Regional Library
Digital Collections
The Salida Archive contains images, histories, interviews, newspapers, maps, historic building surveys, and much more of Salida, Colorado and the surrounding area.
Local Lore

Duke

Follow the Hearts

Alpine Park Lions

Spiral Drive

Coach White

Salida Granite Company

Hutchinsons

Laura Evans

Salida's Fire Boys

FIBArk

Bateman Family

Salida's Photographers

The Alexanders

The Hermit of Arbor Villa

Salida Library History

UFO over Salida

Hidden Treasure of the Spaniards

The Poor Farm
Free Colorado Historic Newspaper Digitization
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) is free to everybody and currently includes over 2 million digitized pages, representing 500 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado.
This FREE online digitization includes Salida’s newspapers the Mountain Mail and the Salida Mail, both digitized through 1931, and also the Salida Record, digitized through 1922. This newspaper project is made possible by the Salida Library, a generous Tuesday Evening Club donation (which was their parting gift to the library upon disbandment), and a grant from the Statewide Internet Portal Authority.
The Salida Library continues to purchase digitization on a yearly basis which includes newspapers from Gunnison, Saguache, Fremont, Hinsdale, and Denver counties.
Photograph Collections
These collections are updated on a regular basis


Salida Centennial Collection


Salida Museum Collection


Bob Pierce Collection


Bob Rush Collection


Hollis & Virginia Spencer Collection


Anonymous Collection


Earle Kittleman Collection


Charles S. Phalen Collection


Betty Meyers Collection


Jacobs Family Collection


Betty Regnier Collection


Billie Love Collection


Patricia Bradbury Holton Collection


Richard Jackson Collection


Virgil Jackson Collection


Unknown Collection


Marge Large Collection


Jim Pearce Collection


Nancy Williams Collection


Roy Albright Collection


Jean Hanfelt Collection


Jerry Potts Collection


John C. & Florence A. Tracy Collection


Magic Lantern Collection


Jack & Jerri Lines Collection


George Carpenter Collection


Rout Family Collection
Histories, Letters, & Diaries


Salida Library History


Tuesday Evening Club


Founding of Salida


History of Salida Schools


Donna Nevens Collection


Arkansas Valley Voices


History of Salida as written by Fred Bateman


History of Salida by Mabel D. Hulse


Remember When by Bessie Shewalter


The Lago-Salida Connection


A Selection of Old Newspapers


Salida Steamplant


Richard Carroll Collection


Early Days of Chaffee County


History of Cochetopa National Forest


History of the Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District


Diary of T.J. Hampson


Memories of Leadville


William Dulles, Jr. Letters


History of Chaffee County


History of Lake County


Salida Churches



The Poor Farm


Forrest Whitman


Dorothy Ross Collection
Research


Assessor's Cards ca. 1940s


City Directories


Chaffee County Burial Records


Sanborn Historic Maps of Salida


ancestry.com [in-library use only]


Architectural Inventory Forms 2000s
Salida's Historic Buildings


Architectural Inventory Forms 1980s
Salida's Historic Buildings


Denver Public Library Digital Collections


History Colorado's Online Collection


Ted Kierscey Photo Collection


Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Historic Photo Collections


Digital Public Library of America


Salida Museum


Buena Vista Heritage Museum
Interviews
The Salida Oral History Project preserved the history and heritage of Salida through interviews of long-time residents and other knowledgeable people who lived and worked in the area. These are shared stories of their childhood, schooling, family, church, outings, celebrations, friends, hobbies, and events that still live in their memories.
The Marmot Library Network’s
Digital Archive
A collection of archival images and texts that belong to Salida Regional Library’s consortium member libraries, located throughout the state of Colorado.
Salida Regional Library | 405 E Street | Salida, Colo. 81201 | 719 539-4826
The Salida Regional Library provides digital access to the Salida Archive for educational and research/scholarly (i.e. non-profit) purposes. Images may be downloaded and printed by individuals for personal use, research, or teaching purposes, or other ‘fair use’ as defined by U.S. Copyright Law. This site is the sole property of the Salida Regional Library (unless otherwise noted.)