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Category Archives: grants
From Fandom to Fanfiction to Nonfiction: Researching the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary
In 2008, when I rediscovered Alias Smith and Jones (ASJ), a 1970s TV show I watched as a kid, I had no idea that several years later I’d be writing a book about the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary. Revisiting ASJ on … Continue reading
Isberg collection digitized
The AHC has completed a grant project to digitize photographs, glass plate negatives, glass lantern slides, and stereo cards from the Isberg Family papers, a collection of a Laramie family with material dating from 1884 to 1930. Continue reading
It’s About Dam Time!
Have you ever passed a dam and paused to think of how it came to be? In the early and mid 20th century, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation industriously set to altering much of the hydrological … Continue reading
Secret Agent Man: The Papers of Frank Wilson
Another Depression-era collection has been processed and made available online thanks to an NHPRC grant! Two important news events during the Great Depression were the Charles Lindbergh baby kidnapping case and the conviction of Al Capone. Frank Wilson, Chief of … Continue reading
Frank Meyers Photographs Digitized
The AHC has completed a project to digitize over 900 negatives from Rawlins-area photographer Frank Meyers. Frank J. Meyers (1890-1973) purchased the Rawlins photography business of Hugh J. Rogner in 1923. Meyers ran the business for 50 years until his … Continue reading
Antelope Charlie’s West: The Digitized Photography of Charles Belden
The American Heritage Center has completed a project to digitize the Charles Belden photographs, one of the AHC’s more prominent collections of photographs and negatives. Most of the photographs in the collection were take in the 1920s and 1930s on … Continue reading
Hugo Janssen Photographs Digitized
The American Heritage Center has completed a project to digitize 914 negatives from Lovell, Wyoming, based photographer, Hugo Janssen. Hugo Gerhard Janssen (1893-1960) was born in Germany on July 17, 1893, and arrived in Lovell just prior to World War … Continue reading
O’Mahoney’s Wyoming: A Dive into the Political Landscape of a Stalwart Senator
Joseph C. O’Mahoney was a Wyoming Democratic senator for 25 years, 1934-1960. He was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on November 5, 1884. He moved to Cheyenne in 1916 where he worked at a newspaper owned by John Kendrick, then governor … Continue reading