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Arapaho Language Dictionary Cards and Audio Recordings Now Available Online
Are you interested in learning more about the Arapaho language? You might be interested in a digital collection at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. The AHC has digitized and made accessible online more than 1,600 English-Arapaho dictionary cards … Continue reading
Investigating Heart Mountain Relocation Camp with the Lester Hunt papers
The American Heritage Center has digitized about 220 documents regarding the Heart Mountain Relocation Center and a 1949 film titled “Wyoming and Its Natural Resources” from the Lester C. Hunt papers. Lester Calloway Hunt was the 19th governor of Wyoming … Continue reading
Sky High in Wyoming
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
Exploring Ecology’s Roots – The Clements Papers
Frederic Edward Clements, a leading botanist of the early twentieth century, was born 16 September 1874 in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of Ephraim George and Mary Angeline (Scoggin) Clements. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Nebraska in … Continue reading
W. B. D. and Annette Gray Photographs Digitized
The American Heritage Center has completed a project to digitize the photographs of W. B. D. and Annette Gray, who were congregational ministers in Wyoming from 1900 to 1918. In 1900, William Bradford Dodge (W. B. D.) Gray was appointed … Continue reading
Exploring a Legal Legacy – Thurman Arnold’s Digitized Papers
The AHC has digitized over 7,000 items from the collection of Thurman Wesley Arnold. Arnold, the son of lawyer C.P. Arnold, was born in Laramie, Wyoming, and educated at the University of Wyoming, Princeton, and Harvard, where he earned a … 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
From Page to Pixel: Owen Wister’s Collection in the Digital Age
The American Heritage Center has completed a project to digitize the collection of famed Western author, Owen Wister. The collection includes journals, manuscripts, photographs, articles, publications, and correspondence. These materials deal primarily with Wister’s interest in and travels to the … 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