Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1949.068.0626Description
Black and white print on black mat, one copy and one negative. Image of 5th street looking south toward railroad hotel. On photo right is Charley Johnsons Stock and Livery Barns. In distance are Miller block and Osborne buildings. On photo left is Ferguson building. A small child stands in foreground on photo right and wagon and horses are on street. Light poles have white tops. ca. after 10/10/1907 re: Rans
Written on back in pencil: "Looking south on 5th toward Depot Rawlins Wy." Stamped in black: "Carbon County Museum Box 52 Rawlins, Wyoming 82301." Engraved in bottom right corner: "The Ferris Studio Rawlins, Wyo."
Condition good.
Copy 1: Black and white 8 x 10 print. Written on back in black: Rawlins, Wyoming looking South on 5th toward depot. [should say Railroad Hotel). Condition good.
NOTE: Entrepreneur Charles Johnson's store and one half, eighty four foot by eighty four foot Stock and Livery barn was built in 1900. Contractor, William F. Collins used seven hundred perch of native Quartzite plus trim of native grey sandstone in its construction. In addition to his livery, Johnson sold coal from his barn and at various times leased the northeast corner, ground floor section out to other businesses-such as the Dime Theater an early silent motion picture house. As the Livery Business began phasing out following World War One, other owners converted the Barn into a garage. It was home to Studebaker Agency for twenty some years through World War II and was last used as an Auto-Tire Shop. By 1951 the Rawlins National Bank Corporation had purchased the property and that year demolished the barn so that they could build the current Rawlins National Bank building on that site.
Negative: Good condition. Top right corner rubbed. Size 4 x 5"Collection
Photograph Collection