Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1980.617.0030Description
One family album.
Update 5/2010: 6 black paper loose pages of a photo album, 5 pages have photos on front and back.
Page 1, side 1; 4 black and white prints, top left: Image shows a white multi-level roofed white frame house. There is a small front landing at the top of the high steps with a dark screen door in background. An older woman wearing dark dress & white shawl is sitting in a chair at side right on landing. A young girl is sitting at her feet. Two other girls wearing white dresses are seated on lower steps at left & right. Yard has sparse vegetation. A basement window is at ground level with a cellar entrance on side right. Other houses are seen at background left with hill in the distance.
Written on back in black ink: Mrs. Hertzell & three nieces. She raised the girls. They were our neighbors in Rawlins, 1905. (See 1963.423.0001) Top right: man with his knee on a wood box with a saw in his right hand and a board in left hand. A wood shed is in the background. Bottom left: 10 black men working with pipes, thatched roof huts in background. Bottom right: Some sort of covered trolleys on inclined tracks surrounded by a decorative fence. Side 2: Top and bottom left and top right of a very wide, large waterfall with dense foliage on sides and beneath. Bottom right: A river with large piece of machinery being floated followed by men in a boat.
Page 2, side 1; 13 men in front of a railroad boxcar. Written on boxcar: "Rawlins". Side 2 top: Sheep in a pasture. Bottom left: Man, woman and 3 girls (Ruth, Ada, & Carmen Rivera). Bottom right: 3 girls (Ruth, Ada & Carmen Rivera).
Page 3, side 1, top left and center: Grave markers in a cemetery, top right of horses standing in street at the corner of the Ferguson building, Chas. Miller Furniture building up the street. Bottom left: Old Central School. Bottom Center: Old court House, Old Wy. State Penitentiary. Side 2, Top left: 4 girls sitting in a swing and 3 adults standing behind. Top center: Clapboard house, outbuildings, antlers, 2 men and 2 women, 1 child. Top right: Man and small girl standing in yard by antlers and swing. Bottom left: 3 seated women and small child. Center and Bottom right: Men standing in a rock quarry with steep walls behind them.
Page 4, side 1, left top: A multi-level clapboard house with people standing on the front porch and lots of chickens in front. Center: A boy on horseback and a man standing next to a horse. Bottom left: A young lady on a horse. Bottom right: 2 horses pulling a buggy. Side 2, Top left: A woman standing beside a horse in front of a house. Top right: Burned and dilapidated building in front of two small sheds.
Pate 5, side 1: 6 photos , one of a group of people, then 2 couples, then man and 2 women, group on porch of house, 1 man dressed in white standing beside a house. Side 2 top left of 3 women standing on lawn with a multi-level, large brick building behind them. Top center: Several people surrounding a large wood table outside, beside a house. Top right: A roller coaster. Written on building: "Chutes and" "Public Telephone City Switches 5 cents" "Zoo". Bottom left: Ferris wheel. Center bottom: Large, ornate, spired arched building. Bottom right: Water, steep bank, buildings with columns, tiered top with a widows walk.
Page 6, side 1. Photo of some kind of mining building, 1 large multi-level with one sloping side next to a metal tram way, several out buildings and metal framing. Side 2 embossed on top left:"Photographs".
Condition: All paper pages are torn and worn on the edges. Prints are faded, silvering, creased, coming off paper pages, some torn, scratched.Collection
Photograph Collection