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Tag Archives: Photographic collections
Preserving History, One Negative at A Time
The American Heritage Center is home to nearly 90,000 cubic feet of historically significant collection material, representing centuries of cultural heritage within a wide range of subject matter. Whether it be a paper document, work of art, three-dimensional artifact, analog … Continue reading
Posted in 19th century, American Heritage Center, Archival preservation, behind the scenes, Digitization techniques, Historical Preservation, Photographic collections, Uncategorized
Tagged Acetate film, American Heritage Center, Archival Materials, Digitization Techniques, Historical photographs, Historical Photos, Historical preservation, Nitrate film, Nitrate Film Preservation, Photographic collections, Photography
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Traveling with Cole Porter
Actress and photographer Jean Howard was a great favorite of Cole Porter, the urbane composer and songwriter known for scoring such successful productions as Kiss Me Kate (1948) and High Society (1956). His numerous hit songs include Begin the Beguine, … Continue reading
Posted in Composers, Hollywood history, Motion picture actors and actresses, Photographic collections, popular culture, Uncategorized, women's history
Tagged Cole Porter, Historical photographs, Howard Sturges, Jean Howard, Linda Porter, Photographic collections, Photography, Travel Photographs, Travels with Cole Porter
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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
Family History Research @ the AHC
Archivists working in the Reference Department of the American Heritage Center are often asked about resources that can help genealogists track their family’s history. Sometimes that’s an easy question–we might actually have the personal family papers of that researcher’s forebears. … 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
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
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
Baker and Johnston’s Native American Portraits
The American Heritage Center has digitized the entirety of the Baker and Johnston photograph collection. The Baker and Johnston Photographic Studio operated in Evanston, Wyoming, in the late 1800’s by Charles S. Baker and Eli Johnston. They photographed a variety … Continue reading