Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2015.1163.7.22Description
9 7/8" x 4 1/16" black and white photograph of 46 old men. They are in 3 rows, 15 men seated in the front, 20 men standing in the middle row, and 11 men standing on a raised platform in the rear row. The rows reach all the way to the edges of the room. The back wall is blank, and the side walls have windows with plaid curtains. The photo was taken at the 8th annual turkey dinner of the Royal Order of the 70s. The men were all between 70-86. See 2015.1163.7.23, a news article which reproduces the photo, for more information. Participant names, from the news article, are:
Front row, l-r: H.J. Cashman, W.W. Shaffer, O.J. Nelson, L.J. Larson, P.J. Johnson, M.W. Tiffany, Dennis O'Melia, Frank Frolling, Charles Campbell, Leo Spataro, Mike Miller, Ben Sanisteven, Ed Nelson, S.P. Morison, D.C. Kinnaman.
Middle row, l-r: Rev. F.F. Kraft, Peter G. Johnson, J.L. Hatch, Ole Olson, Frank Schilt, K.H. Hadsell, Henry Perrett, Gus Larson, Walton France, E.F. Bennett, Lou J. Nelson, Skerner Rasmussen, Day P. Espy, Chris Brown, Frank Low, E.A. Durant, Hans Larsen, I.J. Rendle, A.S. Roach, C.A. Conyers.
Top row, l-r: Peter Larson, Gus Anderson, John Engstrom, W.H. Irving, Jack Martinez, Joe Lincecum, Peter M. Larson, H.A. Calnan, W.O. Collins, A.C. Kaufman, Oscar Holmquist.
In the bottom right corner is a stamp that says "Frank J. Meyers Photographer" but the word photographer is mostly off the edge of the picture.
On the back is a sticker saying "Intermountain Engraving Co." with information from when the photo print was ordered by the Rawlins Daily Times, 11/7/1951.Collection
Permanent Collection