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Tag Archives: Photographic collections
Burt C. Buffum, Part Two
Post contributed by AHC Archives Aide Patty Kessler Buffum’s Second Term at the University of Wyoming Buffum left Wyoming in 1900 to serve as the director of the Colorado Agricultural College’s experiment station in Fort Collins. Prior to his departure, the … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biographies and Profiles, University of Wyoming, Western History, Wyoming
Tagged Burt C. Buffum, Colorado Agricultural College, emmer wheat, Photographic collections, Theodore Roosevelt, University of Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Confronting Difficult History: Blackface in Wyoming’s Photographic Past
When I first encountered these photographs in the American Heritage Center’s collections, I was genuinely jarred. As a white person researching these images from 1920s-30s Wyoming, I found myself uncomfortable and unsettled. My immediate reaction was emotional rather than academic … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies and Profiles, Wyoming
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Bighorn Basin, blackface, Carbon County, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, difficult history, Encampment Wyoming, Hugo G. Janssen, Lora Webb Nichols, Lovell Wyoming, minstrelsy, New Deal, Photographic collections, race history
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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 American Heritage Center, Archives, Behind the Scenes
Tagged 19th century, Acetate film, Archival Materials, archival preservation, 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
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
Posted in Biographies and Profiles
Tagged Charles Belden, Photographic collections, Photography
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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
Posted in Archives, University of Wyoming, Wyoming
Tagged Family correspondence, family history, Photographic collections, Photography
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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
Posted in Wyoming
Tagged Frank J. Meyers, Kemmerer, Photographic collections, Photography, Rawlins, Wyoming State Penitentiary
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