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
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
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
Jean Hanfelt Collection
Jerry Potts Collection
John C. & Florence A. Tracy Collection
Magic Lantern Collection
Jack & Jerri Lines Collection
Histories, Letters, & Diaries
Salida Library History
Tuesday Evening Club
Founding of Salida
History of Salida Schools
Donna Nevens Collection
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
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.
View historic images of Salida’s buildings by simply clicking on the red markers in a google map. Many of the images contain detailed historical information from the Salida Historic Buildings Survey.
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.)