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Jean Howard and Charles Feldman: From Ziegfeld Follies to Movie Moguls
What do you get when you combine a stunning starlet, a savvy talent broker, and a bunch of famous friends? The answer is Jean Howard and Charles Feldman, the ultimate party planners of old Hollywood. The story of Jean Howard … Continue reading
Posted in found in the archive, Hollywood history, Motion picture actors and actresses, motion picture history, Photographic collections, popular culture, Uncategorized, women's history
Tagged Charles Feldman, Entertainment industry, Hollywood, Hollywood History, Jean Howard, Photography, popular culture
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Glimpses into the Iron Ore Mining Past of Sunrise, Wyoming
The Sunrise Mine and Town Site Photo Album offers a look at operations at the Sunrise Iron Ore Mine and the town of Sunrise, Wyoming, from 1899 to 1920. Sunrise, Wyoming, was a company mining town, founded in 1899 by … Continue reading
Posted in Digital collections, Economic Geology, found in the archive, Local history, mining history, Photographic collections, Uncategorized, Western history, Wyoming history
Tagged Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Company Towns, Iron Ore Mining, Mining History, Mining Towns, Photography, Sunrise, Wyoming history
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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
Photo of the Week: People and Their Pets
Many of us have a pet at home, whether our companion be a bird, cat, fish, dog, or a pocket-sized rodent. However, most of us have likely never considered adding something more exotic to our living menagerie. A chimpanzee? A … Continue reading
Crow Tribal Photographs, Then and Now
Dan Hayward and Audrey Plenty Hoops delivered two complementary multi-media talks about the Crow, or Aps’aalooke, Indian Nation of southern Montana on April 18, 2012. Hayward’s presentation, titled Crow Tribal Photographs, Then & Now, introduced his large photographic project of … Continue reading
Prohibition in Wyoming
January 16th, 2012 was the 92nd anniversary of the passage of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which transformed Prohibition into federal law. Much of our understanding of Prohibition is framed by its urban impacts and consequences–bootlegging and organized … 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
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