Tag Archives: Photography

“The Land Divided, The World United:” Reporting from the Panama Canal

Posted on September 10, 2014 by ahcadmin

A newly digitized collection, the Eleanor McIlhenny papers, provides researchers with a glimpse into the keen reporting of of woman journalist working in the Panama Canal zone from the pre- to post-WWII era.  The University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center (AHC) has … Continue reading →

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Arthur E. Demaray, National Parks Pioneer

Posted on December 19, 2012 by ahcadmin

Arthur E. Demaray was a United States government administrator for the Department of the Interior, National Park Service.  The American Heritage Center just completed processing this collection and a new online finding aid for the Demaray papers is available! Demaray spent most … Continue reading →

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Buddy Mays, Photojournalist of the Southwest

Posted on December 17, 2012 by ahcadmin

The AHC is pleased to announce that we have just recently completed a new online finding aid for the Buddy Mays papers. Buddy Mays was born in 1943 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After high school, Mays served in the … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Week: People and Their Pets

Posted on June 8, 2012 by ahcadmin

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 →

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Family History Research @ the AHC

Posted on May 30, 2012 by ahcadmin

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 →

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Crow Tribal Photographs, Then and Now

Posted on April 12, 2012 by ahcadmin

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 →

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W. B. D. and Annette Gray Photographs Digitized

Posted on September 13, 2011 by ahcadmin

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 →

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Frank Meyers Photographs Digitized

Posted on May 13, 2011 by ahcadmin

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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