Category Archives: Digital collections

Jacques Kapralik and the Art of Film Promotion

Posted on April 25, 2014 by stowam

The American Heritage Center is fortunate to hold the papers and artwork of Jacques Kapralik. Kapralik was a commercial artist and caricaturist whose art was used in the promotion of motion pictures throughout Hollywood’s Golden Era of the 1930s-1950s. Born … Continue reading →

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A Close Look at Development in Cody, WY: The George T. Beck Papers

Posted on January 2, 2014 by ahcadmin

The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming has an exciting announcement! We have digitized and made accessible online over 6,000 documents and photographs from the George T. Beck papers. George T. Beck came to Wyoming in 1879, and … Continue reading →

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Feminine Forces: Digitized Narratives of Fashion, Crime, and Advocacy

Posted on July 13, 2012 by ahcadmin

Step into the captivating world of influential women who shaped the realms of fashion, journalism, and advocacy in the 20th century as we explore digitized treasures from the papers of Betsy Talbot Blackwell, Grace Robinson, Irene Kuhn, and Toni Stabile.  … Continue reading →

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Sky High in Wyoming

Posted on April 13, 2012 by ahcadmin

In a press release written to accompany the release of her film, Sky High in Wyoming, the documentary filmmaker Mildred Capron (whose papers reside at the American Heritage Center) states: An easterner by birth and background, 14 years in China … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the Evolution of Air Travel

Posted on December 21, 2011 by ahcadmin

Are you a nervous flier?  Perhaps it will make you feel better to see that back in the day, it could have been a lot worse to fly.  We’ve used our collections to illustrate just several of the reasons that … Continue reading →

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Your American Heritage Center FAQs Answered

Posted on October 31, 2011 by ahcadmin

October is Archives Month, and as part of its recognition of the auspicious occasion, the Smithsonian’s institutional archives has posted a blog titled The Smithsonian’s Top 6 Archives Myths.  So far as I know, here at the American Heritage Center … Continue reading →

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American Heritage Center Digitizes Wind River Missionary Records

Posted on August 30, 2010 by ahcadmin

The AHC has digitized and made accessible online more than 1,300 items from the papers of John Roberts. Reverend John Roberts was an Episcopalian missionary who worked among the Arapaho and Shoshone peoples on the Wind River Indian Reservation in … Continue reading →

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