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Photo Archive Friday

Submitted by cgehrig on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 9:22am
Wow a very large fish

Something fishy is going on here. Can you imagine the fish story this man told. It might have been one of the few that was actually correct!

This is one majorly large fish, too bad the Sturgeon isn’t an eating fish. I wonder how many people this one could feed. Bet they cleaned up on the caviar market though.

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This Doc Didn’t Make House Calls

Submitted by kcutsfor on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 11:24am
Doc Middleton

Most people today define the term “cowboy” as an animal herder who tends to horses and cattle, does a myriad of ranch related tasks, and perhaps has something to do with the modern day rodeo.

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Memorial Day Photo Shop Sale

Submitted by cgehrig on Mon, 05/13/2013 - 3:37pm
Two girls, Mary Elizabeth and Harriet Rhoads, look at tulips; grave markers and
Helen Perry poses near a marker at Crown Hill Cemetery in Arvada (Jefferson Coun

The Photo Shop here at Denver Public Library, Level 5, Western History/Genealogy Department is having a photo sale.

Items on sale are:

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A History of Latino Gangs in Denver

Submitted by Noel on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 2:52pm
Duran, Robert J. Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider's Journey. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Front Cover

Did you know that Mexican-American gangs in Denver first formed in the 1940’s?

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Photo Archive Friday

Submitted by cgehrig on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 8:48am
Having fun in school

This was the future in 1982, you have to give the teachers credit it must have been fun for the kids! When else could you get kids to look forward to a spelling test.

Rocky Mountain News Archive

Photo by Frank Murray - December 15, 1982

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DPL’s Pioneering Librarian John Cotton Dana: The Man Who Opened-Up America’s Book Stacks

Submitted by Noel on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 3:51pm
"John Cotton Dana." The Denver Public Library: 100th Anniversary Celebration. Denver, 1989. Page 4.
"Book Thieves Raid Library." Denver Times. 14 October 1902. Page 4.
Denver Public Library's John Cotton Dana Open Shelf Room. [1945?]

Today you can go into nearly any public library and freely browse the book stacks.

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Photo Archive Friday

Submitted by cgehrig on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 9:02am
The great race

Was this a fair race?

Here is a great image from the Otto Roach Photographic Collection C Photo Collection 67. 

Image shows a race between motorcyclists against skier. Wonder which one won.

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Photo Archive Friday

Submitted by cgehrig on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 1:27pm
Secretary Day

From the Rocky Mountain News Archives Rocky Mountain News – Paramount Theater  

From the Rocky Mountain News Archives Information on the back of the image: Rocky Mountain News – Paramount Theater March 12, 1963

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Photo Archive Friday

Submitted by cgehrig on Fri, 04/19/2013 - 8:46am
Sonny Liston punking Cassius Clay

Sonny Liston punk'd Cassius Clay

This photo is from the Burnis McCloud photographic collection

photo shows L-R

Unidentified male

Cassius Clay (Mohamed Ali) Heavy Weight Boxing Champ

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Learn an Endangered (or Extinct) Language in Western History and Genealogy

Submitted by Noel on Thu, 04/18/2013 - 5:49pm
Tomkins, William. Universal Indian Sign Language of the Plains Indians of North America. San Diego: William Tomkins, 1929.
Armenian leaf from a collection of Near Eastern languages.
Frantz, Donald G. Blackfoot Grammar. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 1991.
Goss, James A. A Short Dictionary of the Southern Ute Language. Ignacio: Southern Ute Tribe, 1961.

I feel an affinity for languages. To know more than one language is to be able to see the world in more than one way.

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