Print, Photographic

1958.301.0064

1958.301.0064

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1958.301.0064

Description

About 9th and Cedar around 1890. Wyoming Transportation Company. Horses and wagons. Labeled: Rawlins Wyoming Early Day. Update - 2009: Black & white copy print. Snapshot. Image of what appears to be a freighting camp. three men - two on horseback & one driving a wagon - posed on dirt lot. Structures in background left, right & center. Tent at left side. Covered freight wagon between tent & structure at left. Wagon without canvas cover - just the wooden pibs - at left center mid-ground. Tandem covered freight wagons in mid-ground at right center; covering has sign " "Wyoming-Rawlins-Transportation Co" Caption on original photo at center bottom: "Rawlins, Wyo. Early days. Printing at left unreadable. There was writing on original emulsion of original print but not clear in this copy. Written on emulsion in upper left in red: "(12)" Written on back in blue ink: "about 9th & Cedar - around 1890". Stamped on back in black ink: "Copy provided by the Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department" Typed on back: "$2.00". Decimal point in typing impacting emulsion at center. Irregular emulsion. Slight soiling. Thumbtack dents in upper left & right corners - emulsion missing in upper right.

Collection

Photograph Collection