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Category Archives: Local history
Laramie’s Latin American Club
September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Wyoming has a historically significant Hispanic and Manito population, some of whom came and went for work while others made Wyoming their home. Spanish-speaking people from northern New Mexico, called … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Laramie, Local history, Manitos, Mexican-American history, Uncategorized, Wyoming history
Tagged Comision Honorifica, Latin American Federation, MEChA, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Latin American Federation, Wyoming Federation of Latin American Groups
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Eat What You Want Day!
May 11 is “Eat What You Want Day.” What does that mean? Well, it means for one day you can forget your diet and, health permitting, treat yourself to a favorite food. Today, you can say “Yes-Yes” to that slice … Continue reading
Posted in Animal actors, community collections, Current events, Digital collections, Local history, Motion picture actors and actresses, Photographic collections, Uncategorized, University of Wyoming history, Wyoming history
Tagged Hopalong Cassidy, laramie, Lovell, Ludwig Photography, Topper, Tri Delta
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Emancipation Day at Cheyenne’s Allen Chapel AME Church
You’ve probably heard of Juneteenth, but have you ever heard of Emancipation Day? Emancipation Day has been celebrated on different dates in the U.S. since the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862. The tradition of Watch … Continue reading
Posted in African American history, community collections, Digital collections, Local history, Uncategorized, Under-documented communities, Wyoming history
Tagged Allen Chapel AME Church, AME Church history, Casper Leroy, Cheyenne, Emancipation Day, Liz Byrd, Robert Rhone, Sudie Rhone
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A Cheque-Book of Beautiful New Year Wishes
Christian Isberg was a native of Sweden who came to Laramie, Wyoming, in 1868, when the town was first founded as a supply depot for the Union Pacific Railroad. He settled in the town and raised two sons, William H. and John, and … Continue reading
A Holiday Parade of Trees
For Thanksgiving we offered you a turkey parade. Now we present a parade of trees decorated for the holidays. The Empress Theater tucked their holiday tree beneath a stairwell in this photograph most likely from the early 1940s. The Empress … Continue reading
Living Through a Pandemic: Eight Months of Donations to the American Heritage Center’s COVID-19 Collection Project
The AHC COVID-19 Collection Project began in April 2020 as an effort to collect stories, photographs, poems, and other creative works that show the impact coronavirus has had on our community. Not just the University of Wyoming employees, students, and … Continue reading
Amigos de la Comunidad of Torrington, Wyoming
In box 9 of the Lawrence Cardoso papers housed at the American Heritage Center is a booklet dating to the mid-1970s titled “Amigos de la Comunidad.” I was leafing through that particular box searching for something totally unrelated. But the … Continue reading
Wyoming’s Woodmen of the World
I’ve walked through Laramie’s Greenhill Cemetery many times over the years and have been curious about the headstones carved to look like tree stumps. I finally decided to do a little research. You may already know this, but each intricately … Continue reading
Eyewitness to Racism: Andrew Bugas and the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885
Andrew Bugas (Andrej Bugos) was not quite 20 years old in 1885 when he arrived in Rock Springs to work in the Union Pacific’s coal mines. Born in Austria, he came to the United States in 1880 to join his … Continue reading
Archive Your Wyoming Coronavirus Story with the American Heritage Center!
The University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC) wants to hear from you! The AHC is initiating a COVID-19 Collection Project to gather experiences from across Wyoming. Your submissions will document for future generations the impact that this pandemic has on your work, education, personal life, community, along with any additional observations you may wish to make. These stories tell us what’s happening from an individual perspective, providing a personal and in-depth look at the impact of COVID-19 on our community. For more information go to https://forms.gle/h9GTC9YjSUYUJdgX8 Continue reading
Posted in community collections, Coronavirus outbreak, Current events, Digital collections, Economic History, Family history, Flu, Local history, medical history, oral histories, Pandemics, Public health, Uncategorized, Western history, Wyoming, Wyoming history
Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, Memoir, Personal story, Survey
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