Category Archives: newly digitized collections

Thurman Arnold Papers Digitized

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

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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

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Wister Papers Digitized

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

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Charles Belden Photographs Digitized

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

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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

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The New and Improved O’Mahoney Papers

Take a look at the Joseph C. O’Mahoney papers here at the AHC! And if you’ve already seen them, take another look, as the collection has been re-processed and better organized! Joseph C. O’Mahoney was a Wyoming Democratic senator for … Continue reading

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Baker and Johnston Collection Processed and Digitized

The American Heritage Center recently completed a finding aid for and digitized the entirety of the Baker and Johnston Photograph Collection.  The Baker and Johnston Photographic Studio was operated out of Evanston, Wyoming, in the late 1800’s by Charles S. … Continue reading

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Wyoming Pioneers’ Oral Histories Available Online

The collection contains interviews with people who were early residents of Wyoming. Interviews were conducted between 1947 and 1955 by employees of the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.  Topics include life in Laramie, Hanna, Douglas, and other towns; politics … Continue reading

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Black 14 Films at AHC and Online

In October 1969, fourteen Black college football players were dismissed from the University of Wyoming football team because they wanted to wear armbands when playing against Brigham Young University to protest the alleged racial policies of the Church of Jesus … Continue reading

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Sam Knight – The Great Geologist

WyoFile published a great article yesterday on famed UW Geology Professor and Wyoming Citizen of the Century, Samuel Howell Knight, called “Sam Knight – The Great Geologist Who Could Take Correction From a Neighborhood Kid“. The article arrives on the … Continue reading

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