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.
Recently Digitized Items
Local Lore

Duke

Follow the Hearts

Salida: Tourist Destination

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

Dick Dixon Collection

Bob Pierce Collection

Bob Rush Collection

Helen Mosgrove 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

Theresa Cortese Collection

Yellowstone Park Photo Album

Edith Lantz Simmons Collection
Histories, Letters, & Diaries

Salida Library History

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad

Founding of Salida

Tuesday Evening Club

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

Colorado Mining Camps
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

Maps
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.)
This site is hosted by the Colorado State Library’s CVL Sites program, which is made possible through grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the Colorado State Library