Name/Title
ScrapbookEntry/Object ID
2013.854.9.1Description
An historical, photographic scrapbook kept by the donor from approximately 1919-2001. The
3-ring spiral (looseleaf) scrapbook has a dark blue, heavy cardboad cover. It is textured with three gold metallic lines surrounding the edges forming a "frame." Within this frame are three white tags affixed to the cover that read "Rawlins by Jim Sullins." Measures 11.5" high x 11" wide x 2.75" deep. Book contains white self adhesive pages with photographs affixed to the pages and covered with an attached clear plastic covering. There are many photographs of Rawlins sites and buildings showing before and after photographs with street addresses. There are many photographs of Rawlins' businesses, houses, etc. from 1919-2001.
Some photographs of note: Piece of the wooden pipe line; overpass and underpass; 4th Street, 1921; Cedar Street,1921; Fire Stations on Walnut Street and Southside; Pine Street, 1922; New Courthouse, 1940; Masonic Temple; Diamond T Truck in front of Old Courthouse; Ferguson Building, Miller Building; Osborne Building; Daley Building, 1923; Photo of Daley Building being built; Rasmusson Building; Ferris Hotel; Old Post Office (now City Hall); New Post Office, 1984;
Buick Garage on Buffalo Street, 1919, (the Rawlins National Bank and Daily Times are there now); Dodge Garage on Front Street between 4th and 3rd Streets, 1919;
Fox Theatre and New Theatre; Key Bank, (now Bank of the West); Rawlins National Bank; Bank of Commerce, (space previously was Liebers Garage); Cottage Motel (South Buffalo and West Fifth St.);
Rawlins Garage (backhoe digging a basement); Wreck of engine 1500; H. Larsen's buildings; Old Luxus Cafe with beer wagon in front, 1920; Luxus Cafe; Square Shooters Eating House (2); Photos of older houses in Rawlins; Carbon Building; Old Football Stadium; New High School, 1957; Cathy Gardens; Rawlins Transit Company, 1939, corner of 4th and Buffalo; Early day J. W. Hugus store photo;
Cedar Street between 4th and 5th, shows Rawlins Mercantile, Rugs, and Wyoming Drug?; Looking down Buffalo to the west in 1930; Carbon County Museum; Split Rock Schoolhouse before it was refinished; Presbyterian Church; Mural on building (antelope); Soroptimist Park; Looking west down Cedar Street, 1921, (man on horseback); West down Cedar from Third Street, 1st building on right was the first hospital; North Star Lodge/Moose Lodge/currently Army Surplus Store; VFW Club; Knights of Columbus Club; IOOF Hall; Elks Club before and after remodel;
Three Colburn cars in front of Elks Club; New Trucks (vintage) on Fifth and Buffalo; Aero Station, 8th and Cedar; Wyoming Drug, 4th and Cedar; Graig Cafe; Mountain Bell Telephone Building; National Guard Building, 1956; Rawlins Recreation Center, 1988; Little League Baseball Field; Fairgrounds; Washington Park; Sam Tully Park; Old Penitentiary; Very old picture of the Old Penitentiary; Various scenes inside the Old Penitentiary;
Old Depot and Union Pacific Hotel; Old Union Pacific Club House; New Union Pacific Club House; Old Union Pacific Yard Office; Depot, 1921; Depot boarded up; Union Pacific Coal Shute, came down in 1970; Engine 1243; Burning down the old Round House in Rawlins, 1970; Track through Monument Hill; Amtrac Depot; Rawlins Springs (3); Parco Hotel; Sinclair Refinery; Old pump house at Sinclair for pumping water from the Platte River; Parco opening celebration, 1925;
Fort Steele, many views showing remaining buildings at that time: Marker from1914; houses by the Fort; Church; grave stone; Old pump house on the Platte River, (pumped water to Sinclair and Sinclair to Rawlins). Fort Steele old store; old houses; safe; tracks running back into the mills to get the cut ties; Old track going back to main line of the Union Pacific. Floating logs down the North Platte, 1921 and 1990 showing that parts of the workings are still there.
Blizzard of '49 (11). Birdseye view of Rawlins postcards; Spruce Street renovations then and now comparisons; Several then and now photos showing a motel then a carwash replacement; a building then the Peppermill (downtown); old Pacific Power office and new office; Old Westway Motel torn down for a parking lot; Allen Insurance moves to new building; Hi-way Drug is gone now an office;
Personal photographs of the donor's first train wreck: "we burnt the journal off the second head car, put 53 cars in the ditch........," shows destruction of train cars and a building; McMahon Motors; Dallin Motors; Flame Room; Rock's old cafe; House Dr. Kirsch tore down on 6th and Spruce; Car dealership buildings downtown-vacant;
5th Street to Airport Road; Building Wendy's; Spruce Street Mall Store; Video Express (old Smyth building on Fifth Street; Buildings on Fifth and Buffalo; McDonalds; Donut Shop (2); Chinese Restaurant; Peaches; Neuman Transit Co.; The Pub Restaurant; Trailers and Trucks Neuman Transit sold; Lindi's Closet going out of business sale; Opera House/Antique Store; Ferguson Building becoming Freight Damaged Furniture Company; Rawlins Plaza Rent to Own; Gizmo's, Fifth and Cedar; Webster's; Aspen House;
Tire Shop, use to be old chevrolet garage and show room; Building of Quick Lube; Building of the Laundromat on 14th Street; The Old Cleaning and Washing Building that Lin Banker owned, and was torn down by the city (shows demolition and empty lots afterwards); Dominos on Cedar Street; Moving the old parish house; houses behind the parish house; Oldest house in Rawlins, ca.1870; Tin shop on 4th Street, torn down and aftermath; Senior Center; Old American Legion torn down;
Cappy's getting a new roof; Renovated Depot; Depot Park; Building new wing on hospital and when done; Checkers Auto Store; Building of new Bi-Rite Drug on corner of Third and Buffalo; House torn down to make way for parking lot for new Bi-Rite; Ferris Hotel being demolished; Buffalo Run Apartments on Buffalo Street; Early day photos of James France Building on Fifth and Front (Murphy-Ready Building), shows names F. M. Galbraith and France and Adams; Rawlins National Bank; Airmail Landing Field, 1920; Rawlins Garage and Studebaker; Old large building that was located on Buffalo facing north torn down to make way for the Rawlins National Bank's drive-up area and parking. At the end of the album is a menu from the Y. Bing Restaurant, Green River, Wyoming, with a Commutation Ticket-5$ attached (vintage).Collection
Photograph Collection