For Weird Photo Wednesday we have some folks with crazy costumes, missing teeth, and three pigs. The pigs are the only normal things in this photograph! And they look like they are having a great time. Party on! For more information about this photograph, click here. For more strange and weird photographs, see our Digital Collections.
Think, during the night, all these stuffed heads looking down at you. Kind of like a spooky haunted movie set. Today's Weird Photo Wednesday goes into a hotel lobby where someone went crazy with taxidermied animals. For information about this photograph, click here. For more weird and crazy photos, check out the Digital Collections.
The Denver Public Library’s Western History/Genealogy Department has a significant collection of Western art. Over the past several years, some of those works have been digitized, and high quality digital reprints made available for purchase. To assist the users of our Digital Collections, we included a field that said "Available for purchase” with a yes or no entry, to identify items for which we had high resolution scans from which to sell reprints, not realizing that people would take that to mean we were selling the art work itself. We have never had the works of art themselves for sale. To avoid confusion, we have edited this field to be more precise, and it now reads "Reproduction available for purchase," and the "Yes" is qualified by (digital reproduction).
Recently we expanded access to the art by loading low resolution images into the Digital Collections. This is being done as a service to our patrons to help them identify and study a greater number of our art works, and we will continue adding images over the next year. These are meant for reference and general identification only. We anticipate having over 1400 images available for our users, but not all can have high resolution digital reproductions made due to copyright, size and/or condition of the original. Please check with the WHG staff at Photosales@denverlibrary.org to determine if a reproduction may be purchased.
To browse the art work available online, search in the Photographs-Western History Collection, and limit your search by "Format-medium" to "Art."
While not as weird a photo today, for our Weird Photo Wednesday, this medal carries significance since the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is upon us. For more information about this photograph, click here. For more information and photos, especially about one of the heroines of the Titanic, Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown, please check out our Digital Collections.
I thought Mama said to Daddy, for the third time now, stop painting clothes on the babies! Now that your mining claim is bringing in money, we can afford clothes for the babies.
Why does Daddy always change the babies diapers on the tracks?
Some of the many captions that I'm sure our dear readers could come up with for our Weird Photo Wednesday, April 4th. For more information about this photo, click here.
To see more strange and unique photographs, visit our Digital Collections.
For today's Weird Photo Wednesday we have a very loud photograph. You can almost hear the boom of the tank gun. This is one of many photographs from from our 10th Mountain Division Collection. For more information about this photograph, click here. For more army, tank and 10th Mountain Division photographs, see our Digital Collections.
With the beginning of spring we bring you a unique photo of a parade entry in the Flower Carnival held in Colorado Springs, Colorado. While the photo is dated summer of 1906, spring here in Colorado is a lovely time and plants are starting to bloom with our warm weather. However, since this is Colorado, don't be surprised if another snow storm sneaks up on us! For more information about this photo, click here. For additional photographs, please see our Digital Collections.
We want to wish everyone a happy St. Patrick's Day for Weird Photo Wednesday. Party responsibly or you may wind up dressed like these two! For more information about this photograph, click here.
For additional photos check out our Digital Collections.
For Weird Photo Wednesday we have a photo of the new Apple iPad 3. Well, maybe the lastest Android tablet! Just kidding all you Android fans. We've come far in computer technology as this photograph attests. In honor of Apple's unveiling of their new tablet today, we remember what computers used to look like. For more information about this photo, click here. For more interesting and amazing photographs, see our Digital Collections.
In celebration of this year's 2012 leap year we bring you back to 1904 to the Leap Year Club. How times have changed! But one thing never changes, our celebration and facination with a leap year. For more informtion about this photo, click here. For more photographs, see our Digital Collections.
Except at the Central Library. Due to a water main break outside of the Central Library, the library was closed for 1 and 1/2 days. Hence a late Weird Photo Wednesday. Luckily nothing in Central was damaged and everything is safe and dry. We welcome you to visit this weekend. We will be closed Friday, Feb. 17th for city furlough day and Monday, Feb. 20th for President's day. For more information about this photo click here. For additional watery photographs, see our Digital Collections.
Please be ours on Valentine Day! For our photo today we have some happy children. As well our happy librarians have smiles on their faces for your visits and we all wish you a wonderful Valentines Day! While our photo this week is not so weird, it is a warm and heartfelt message to you, our wonderful patrons and readers! For more information about this photo click here. For more images please see our Digital Collections.
A line up of beautiful women on the Denver skyline! Let's hope a gust of wind doesn't turn up. Notice all of the smoke in the sky. Denver even then had problems with the brown cloud. For more information about this photo click here. To see more interesting and unusual photos, see our Digital Collections.
How restaurant names have changed! Where the Pig Parlor used to be the place to go in Denver, we now have Rootdown, Linger, Sushi Den and so much more. For Weird Photo Wednesday, we have a dizzying checkerboard counter and some good grub! For more information about this photo please click here. To see more photographs please visit our Digital Collections.
That's the key question for today's Weird Photo Wednesday. There's a story behind every photo, but we may really have to guess at this one. The back of the photograph says "he works out figure with slide rule". For more information about this photo, please click here. Check out more interesting photographs in the Digital Collections.
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Weird Photo Wednesday of January 2012! For those with a love of meat and animal heads on the wall, we have the perfect weird photo for you! This seems to be a meat and potato type of crowd. For more information about this photo, click here. For more wonderful photographs, please see our Digital Collections.
Western Legacies, the gallery and exhibition space on Level Three of the Library, allows visitors to follow the footsteps of African Americans who settled the West, from early pioneers to present day heroes. An exhibition space spanning more than 7,000 square feet, tells the stories of people, places and events that shaped the American West through words, audio-visuals and artifacts of African Americans. Tours and programming for adults and families will be available throughout the year. For details, call 720-865-2401.
This week we have some performers from the Buffalo Bill Wild West show. How in the world all of those people got on top of the man's arms and head is beyond me, but they managed! For more information about this photo, click here. For more fun photos, please see our Digital Collections. And a happy and prosperous New Year to all of our readers and followers of our blog and Weird Photo Wednesday!
For this edition of Weird Photo Wednesday we have a photo of a miner, but if you use your imagination you may think you were looking at a beautiful old photograph of Santa reviewing his list and checking it twice. In the spirit of the holidays we wanted to bring this unusual photo to your attention. For more information about this photo click here. As usual, visit the Digital Collections for more interesting and unusual photographs.
Or perhaps a Trojan Horse? Today's Weird Photo Wednesday for December 14th, shows a unique statue during an early part of Denver's history. Notice the size of the car in relationship to the horse. And it's made out of plaster! For more information about this photo click here. For additional photographs, check out our Digital Collections.
Oh, there are so many funny captions that can go with our Weird Photo Wednesday photo for December 7th. We can see you! Wait, let me get my glasses! I've got my eyes on you!
Give us your captions as well. For more information about this photograph click here. Check our our new Digtital Collections site for more strange, fun, different and wacky photos. On another note, let's make sure we remember today, December 7th, as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
The Fresh City Life My Branch Colorado Authors Series delves into Colorado history this week with Joyce Lohse, presenting Mining for the Real Baby Doe Tabor on Sunday, December 4 at 2 p.m. at Schlessman.
Lohse has written biographies of various figures in Colorado history. In her latest book, Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen, award-winning Centennial author, Joyce B. Lohse, gives a biographical viewpoint of Colorado's favorite female mining legend. In her presentation, she reveals how she manages to tell a familiar story in a different light, and her adventures while researching the Tabor family tale so she could find new and interesting perspectives to share with her readers. Join us and find out what you don't know about Baby Doe!
The Denver Public Library is excited to announce the newest updates to our Digital Collections website. The updates include a refreshed design, new content, powerful zoom tool, social tools, organized browse pages and an easy to use search and refine interface.
In addition to the popular western photos,art, maps and building plans that have been offered in the past, newly digitized materials have been added making searching for digital historical materials much easier:
We've also added many new features that make the Digital Collections easier to use and interact with:
Powerful new zoom tool
Social tools: share, comment, tag and rate
Search by keyword and refine your results or use the powerful yet simple advanced search interface
More helpful functions to look forward to in the future
Take a few minutes to browse around. We're sure you'll be impressed and amazed at this wonderful assortment of Western History and Genealogy digital material. It isn't just history anymore - it's America's most quintessential region and culture right at your fingertips.
For Weird Photo Wednesday we have Invasion USA. Is it real? Or is it just a movie? You decide! With all of the unique and strange things in this photo, there's a smorgasbord of interesting items. For more information about this photo, click here. For more interesting and unique photos, check our our Digital Collections.
Turkeys galore! For Weird Photo Wednesday we have more turkeys than anyone could ever wish for. Some even fancy dressed! Imagine, a turkey in a formal! For more information about this photo, please click here. To view more images, please see our Digital Collections.
For Weird Photo Wednesday we have someone with their own personal trumpet player. Though a lot heavier than a boom box or even an MP3 player.
Does anyone think that the small man looks a bit like Michael Jackson in his later years? For more information about this photo, click here. For more unusual photos, check out our Digital Collections.
These clowns don't look so happy for this Weird Photo Wednesday, November 9th. Maybe they should have just stayed with the job of putting out fires. For more information about this photograph please click here. Check out some other interesting photographs from our Digital Collections.
Weird (but cute) Photo Wednesday for the first Wednesday of November brings you puppies, tons of puppies! While not too weird, how hard was it to line up all those puppies, all eating at once, and looking fabulous in a lovely dress at the same time! For more information about this photo, click here. Note: there is emulsion peeling on the bottom of the photo, due to its condition. For additional cute photos, check out our Digital Collections.
For Weird Photo Wednesday on October 26 we show you a photo taken in 1913 of a huge snow storm and its aftermath. It looks like Denver had a lot of snow that winter! It's the law to shovel your sidewalk in Denver, but I'm sure the folks after this storm waited a few days for the snow to melt. For more information about the is photo, please click here. Please check out our Digital Collections for more interesting snow storm photos as well as many others.
Do these men have smiles on their faces? Do they get to partake in some of the spoils? It makes you truly wonder what will happen to all of that liquid in today's Weird Photo Wednesday. For more information about this photo, click here. To see some of our other strange photographs, please see our Digital Collections.
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