Name/Title
Album, PhotographEntry/Object ID
2012.180.5.19Description
A scrapbook with brown vinyl cover, 10 1/2" x 12 3/4". Eighty four pages that contain black and white pictures of Rawlins, Parco, the building of Seminoe Dam in the late 1930's, and Dr. and Mrs. Ranson B. Baker. Dr. Baker was the camp doctor during the construction, ca. 1936 to 1938.
Fair condition: cover is soiled and worn, some pages have torn through the two ring binding. Pages are manilla colored paper and pictures have been glued or taped to them.
Page 1. has pictures of the hospital in Rawlins, WY, Sanborn #Y-934; aerial view of Rawlins,
Sanborn #Y-935; and downtown Rawlins, looking East with Dr. Batterton and Dr. Crandell's Offices marked, Sanborn #Y-937.
Page 2. has pictures of Parco, WY Hotel and the Sinclair Refinery.
Page 3. Begins pictures of the dirt road toward Seminoe Dam Site and scenery along the road.
Page 5. Pictures of Dr. Baker at the Dam site hospital, the ambulance and other buildings.
Page 7. Begins pictures of the construction of Seminoe Dam including men and equipment, large dump trucks, cranes with buckets, and dozers.
Page 10. Pictures of the interior of the home of Dr. and Mrs. Baker at Seminoe Dam Housing.
Page 12. Blasting rock at Seminoe Dam site.
Page 13. Men on a steep hillside with cables and equipment.
Page 17. Working on opening to divert water during construction.
Page 20. Seminoe Dam Housing on top of the hill.
Page 21. Dr. Baker shoveling snow off his car, Dated March 1937.
Page 22. Construction pictures, dated 8/10/1937, 9/26/1937 and 10/13/1937.
Page 27. Construction dates of 3/17/1938
Page 28. Kitchen/Cook House for men working on the Dam. Chefs preparing chicken and pie.
Page 28. Construction Pictures dated October and November of 1938.
Page 33. Barracks for the approximately 200 men working at the Dam
Page 36. Men and equipment moved across the river by means of an elevated cable, a truck is suspended in mid-air from a cable.
Page 39. Two trucks that have been turned over from a bad landing, one on its side and one upside down.
Page 44 & 45. Other trucks that has been overturned.
Page 52. Men walking a suspension bridge across the water.
Page 53. Begins pictures dated January, March, April, May, August of 1938.
Page 65. Women and children sitting on a wooden bridge.
Page 67. Dr. Baker and an older couple in front of the Baker's house.
Page 69. Scenery of the area.
Page 73. Baker's trip to Yellowstone in July of 1937
Page 75. Dr. Baker and his home at Seminoe.
Page 77. Aerial view of canyon where Seminoe Dam is located.
Page 78. Aerial view of worker's housing, dated September 20, 1938.
Page 81. Photos of dam dated October, 10,1938Collection
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