Name/Title
Album, PhotographEntry/Object ID
1957.284.0126Description
A three ring off white binder with rings mounted on the back cover. The binder has been used as a photograph album. Album has a white square sticker on the spine with the number 36 printed on it in black ink. Binder measures 11 3/8" x 10" x 1 3/8" thick at side right.
Album is primarily a Rawlins City Photograph Album with prints from the late 1900's to 1966. The first two prints in the album are of West Spruce, 1300 and 1400 block from Monument Hill, it shows Laundry-Cleaning Village Building, Venice Cafe, Dairy Queen, July 1964. Others include: Blasting rock off the east end of the Rawlins railroad cut for the Union Pacific,1906, (Monument Hill); Interior of Rawlins National Bank, Osborne Building, 1909;
Faded photo of Rawlins Union Pacific Railroad yards (including sand and coal bins) from top of Union Pacific Water Tank looking west, ca. 1920; Photos of Rawlins looking north from Union Pacific Water Tank across the Railroad Yard, and the 100 block of East Front Street, 1924. Several photos which have been cut showing Rawlins due north taken from up the U. P. water tank, of across the Railroad tracks and the 200 block of East Front Street, west of Colorado Street. (shows front of all houses on Front Street between Colorado and second street), Central School, St. Joseph Church, Courthouse are seen in distance; photo looking northeast from Union Pacific Water Tank, southside of the Underpass in lower left of image; East Front and Colorado Street showing the Rawlins Electric Power Plant, ca. 1924 and fence between Front Street and the railroad; photo showing Rawlins prior to 1913, Central School seeni n background
News photo and clipping of Rawlins Republican newspaper office and the "Louse" motor car owned by Jack Sheehan; Postcard image by O. C. Miller of bonfire at the corner of Buffalo and 5th, but marked, July 4th; (museum has these photos cataloged); Rawlins, north east of Monument Hill, wooden fence at old pen shows picture to be prior to 1913; pink newspaper image of Front Street, 1879, Larsen said 1882, but both are in error as it is 1883; Carbon County Journal Office Plant, 100 block of Fourth Street. J. W. Hugus & Co. Building, northeast cover of Front and Fifth Street,1880's; Bank Exchange Saloon, North Front Street, 400 Block; Ethel V. Conyers obituary,1965;
Newspaper photos of Conyers Transfer & Coal Co., and office the Carbon County Journal and the office of Judge C. Friend, 1884, Rawlins House; Sheahans Hamburger Joint, southeast corner Spruce and 12th Street, 1939; Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co,1939, 600 block West Cedar; Postcard of Front Street 1882 (see above); Boy Scouts Camp, Washington Park, 1943; Rawlins from Sand Hill, south of town; clipping photos of 1884 and 1877, Rawlins; Pat Healy's Cigar and News Store, interior, Ove Miller, Clerk, (2 views); Shrine Parade, 1905; Cedar Street, 1934, looking east; Senior Class, Rawlins High School Class, 1908;
Courthouse postcard, demolished 1938; J. W. Hugus building, newspaper clipping print, Fifth Street and Front Street; Rawlins High School, Outlaw Bowl, Walnut and Third Street, 1943; Masonic Hall, Court House, and St. Joseph's Church 1920, newsprint; Carbon County Courthouse Building, 1943; Rawlins Post Office, 1943, (now City Hall); Old Penitentiary; Street scene taken from roof of Ferris Hotel, 1939; Snow scenes of Cedar and 7th Street; Old Penitentiary Grounds, 1948; clipping on Rawlins Springs, running again, 1965; Municipal Building, newly built, (today's Police Building) Fifth and Buffalo Streets;
Bill Adams house after gas explosion in the basement, 12/1946;unknown woman in snow at Southeast corner of the Courthouse lot with St. Joseph Church in background; Hogback Lake, 1939; clipping on two tanks of the Union Pacific Water system which was deeded to the City of Rawlins; colored print (postcard of Rawlins from Monument Hill over Jeffery Addition looking east on Cedar Street, ca. 1964; Intersection of Pine and 13th Street birdseye view, west from Monument Hill water tank, 7/1964; two photos birdseye views looking west from today's Michael's Restaurant, (then Willow Inn and El Rancho, and the Bucking Horse Lodge and west end businesses on either side of West Spruce;
newspaper clipping photo aerial view, 1965, taken by Ray Todd; three prints of Gay Johnson's Truck Stop, 2/1965, front faced with native moss covered quartzite; C. C. "Curley" and Mary Sloss crowned King and Queen at Park Manor, 1975 clipping; Many prints of west of Rawlins looking west along I-80 from the bypass and near Gay Johnson's; Overpass construction, 1965; clipping on overpass construction, 1965; clipping on completion of overpass, 8/5/1965; snapshots of overpass, 5/1965; Clippings of the Chili Parlor fire at 113 Fourth Street, 1965, Ray Connelly, owner; two unidentified prints of 300 block Front Street, vacant lot; west end looking North; Clippings, dedication of Sixth Street Overpass; Peaking Reservoir Contract clipping; clippings on Summer snowstorms, 09/1965, caused extreme hardships; clipping on destruction of Episcopal Rectory at Sixth and Pine Streets, 1966; clipping of demolition of East family stone house, on Northeast corner of Spruce and 7th Street; 1966; Snow at Fairgrounds, 1966.
Good condition with some soiling on covers, and on inside cover edges. There are various marks from the rings on the inside covers. Some pages are beginning to yellow. Various small black spots on outer covers and spine.Collection
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