Name/Title
Negative, Sheet FilmEntry/Object ID
1949.068.0360Description
Set of 20 B/W negatives of people and buildings. Identified buildings are all in Rawlins. All are approximately 2 1/2" x 2 1/2".
1. Group of people on brick or stone walkway in front of building with large painted sign reading "Zoological". Pictures & signs on side of building advertising "Earl Hagenbeck Trained Animals" "See the Seals". Pictures of lions, tigers, birds & fish.
2. Easton Rail Car on side track, sign propped against end reads: "Worlds Fair".
3. Building with steep pitch roof, sign on end reads: "Grand Island". Open porch with curved beam braces to hold up roof, depot looking building. Flat bed wagons with wood spoke wheels & large wood upright frame on front. Beyond those are "V" shaped wood slat frames with long "T" shaped handle. Large building front with arch windows in background.
4. Image of Ferris Mansion. Street appears under construction.
5. Steep roofed, clapboard house with three rectangular windows, wood fence, & chimney.
6. Two story house with front porch & three steps to front door, lawn & trees in front.
7. Multi-level stone building with four pillars at top of concrete steps leading up to building. Lower level has square windows all sides. Decorative scalloped design on edge of roof & over entrance.
8. Old Wyoming State Penitentiary, dirt street in foreground, post & wire fence in front.
9. Multi-level stone building with a tower on negative right with a turret top. Negative left has steps leading to double door entry. Building continues back on left. Surrounded by an iron fence.
10. Long building with double dormer on steep roof. Looks like a depot building.
11. Steep roof building with tower & steeple. Windows are arch shaped with pointed top on front & on tower sides. Small roofed porch entry with three people, one sweeping. Building looks like church.
12. Large brick building with dormer windows & rock walls on the roof. Decorative trim on top edge of building & above windows. Double door entry on side, single window on negative left & two story with window on both levels on negative right.
13. Road & trees.
14. Three young ladies & a child sitting, straddled on a pole. Fence behind them with wide boards & a building beyond. Size 2 3/8 x 3 3/8 Condition, scratched, fingerprint, emulsion impacted.
15. Two young ladies sitting on top rail of fence, one standing on ground between them. Chicken wire fence with board frame, clapboard house on negative right.
16. Three young ladies with backs toward photographer, all with left foot held back on toe. Chicken wire fence & plants on other side of them. Two houses in background.
17. Multi-level building, store front window sign on lower level reads: "Rawlins National Bank". Store front on negative left: "?ARS Gold" "?y4,1904" Building top has short parapet.
18. Three young men sitting on ground in grass. Clapboard house behind them & large trees to left.
19. Camel on left, elephant on right. Person in costume in center.
20. Rock building with large arch door in center, smaller doors to each side, loft door. Sign on top reads: "Chas. J. Johnson" "Coal Hay Grain Feed" "Office".Collection
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