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Category Archives: Digital collections
New Finding Aids: August 2019
We’ve had a busy and productive summer processing collections! Here’s another round of finding aids we’ve published so you can see what we’ve been up to. As a reminder, Finding Aids act as a table of contents for our collections. … Continue reading
Posted in Digital collections, Hollywood history, Laramie, LGBT, LGBTQIA+, Local history, military history, Motion picture actors and actresses, motion picture history, Natural resources, newly digitized collections, newly processed collections, oral histories, Out West in the Rockies, popular culture, University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming history, Western history, Wyoming history
Tagged Air Force, folklife, Hollywood, Jean Howard, LGBT, LGBTQ history, oil, oil fields, Petroleum, quilt, quilting, Rockefeller, U.S. Air Force, Uinta County, Wyoming, Wyoming folklife
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New Finding Aids: July 2019
The faculty have been processing collections left and right, so here’s another round of new finding aids we’ve published. As a reminder, Finding Aids act as a table of contents for our collections. These aids help you find information about … Continue reading
Posted in Archival Film, Digital collections, energy resources, environmental history, Finding Aids, Heart Mountain, newly digitized collections, newly processed collections, University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming history, Wyoming, Wyoming history
Tagged Boy Scouts, Business, Dean of Women, ehtyl gasoline, Environment, Heart Mountain, Heart Mountain Relocation Camp, NRA, Sinclair Oil, Symphony
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New Finding Aids: June 2019
We’ll we’ve been really busy this summer processing collections — so much so we’re publishing another round this quickly! As a reminder, Finding Aids act as a table of contents for our collections. These aids help you find information about … Continue reading
Posted in Agricultural history, Agriculture, Digital collections, environmental history, Finding Aids, Local history, newly digitized collections, newly processed collections, Politics, Suffrage -- United States, University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming history, Women -- suffrage, women's history
Tagged Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta, Honor Society, Louisa Swain, Suffrage, women's history
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Lost Episode of Golden Age of Television Dramatic Series “Star Tonight” Found and Identified
From 1955-56 on ABC, a live TV series titled Star Tonight offered the chance for young up-and-coming New York actors to star in a show opposite established players. The known stars included: Buster Crabbe, Neva Patterson, Theodore Bikel, and June … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, Archival Film, Digital collections, Edmund C. Rice papers, found in the archive, Motion picture actors and actresses, popular culture, Student projects, Teapot Dome scandal, television history, Uncategorized
Tagged ABC, Annie Hall, Dramatic television anthology, Early American Television, Golden Age of Television, lost TV shows, Mary Boylan, popular culture, Star Tonight, Tom Helmore, Vertigo
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Glimpses into the Iron Ore Mining Past of Sunrise, Wyoming
AHC Archivist Ginny Kilander is presenting a talk June 8, 2018, titled “Glimpses into the Iron Ore Mining Past of Sunrise, Wyoming” at the Mining History Association Annual Conference that’s happening in Deadwood-Lead, South Dakota. Her talk is part of the session: … Continue reading
New AHC Digital Archivist Sets Sights on Access
The AHC recently welcomed a new Digital Archivist, Rachel Gattermeyer. In her position, Rachel plans to increase the accessibility of the AHC’s born-digital collections, identify new directions for digital preservation, and work with other departments at the University to share … Continue reading
Summer Exhibit Series: Railroads in Laramie
The summer exhibit series at the American Heritage Center celebrating Laramie’s 150th anniversary kicks off this week with materials relating to railroad history in Laramie. On May 4, 1868, the Union Pacific Railroad reached Laramie, bringing with it new people, … Continue reading
All Things Wyoming: The Wyoming Pioneers Oral History Project
In 2014, the American Heritage Center completed a project funded by a generous grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund. The largest part of the project was to digitize the Wyoming Pioneers Oral History interviews which were recorded during the … Continue reading
“Wild Bill” Carlisle: Last Train Robber of the American West
Train passengers leaving Green River, Wyoming, on February 9, 1916 riding the Union Pacific Railroad’s Portland Rose found themselves confronted by a young man hiding his face with a white kerchief who demanded their money at gunpoint. But the youngster … Continue reading
Help us identify the scene – B. C. Buffum
Did you play with a Viewmaster as a child? Maybe you’ve seen an old stereoscope at your local museum or historical society. Here at the AHC, we recently digitized some stereocards taken by University of Wyoming professor of Agriculture and prolific photographer … Continue reading