Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1958.304.0158Description
Early day residence which stood at the corner of 6th and Cedar where post office was built which is now City Hall, Rawlins.
Update - 2009: Sepia print. Snapshot. Mounted on tan matboard. Image of two women & two children posed in front of a rectangular clapboard house. Four windows & a door spaced across front - door in center. Single brick chimney. Other houses, church & hills in background. White picket fence in front. Dirt yard & street. Women are wearing dark, long-sleeve, long dresses. One child is wearing a dress & standing between women. Women & child are standing in open gate. Other child is bundled up & sitting on ground at left; appears to be a small farm animal behind him.
Written on back in blue ink: [cut off] Mrs. Walter Lambertson - Rawlins -" "[cutoff] und in Walter Lambertsons' parents family album [cut off]" "/ct" "Early day Rawlins residence which stood the corner of 6th & Cedar where Post Office now stands" [pencil] "now City Hall". "Copied by State" "50%" "2"
Written on back in black ink: "mounted" "5227"
Written on back in pencil: "Page 53, pix 2 1 3/4 x 3 1/2 48%" "(8)".
Mounted on acidic matboard. cut down from original size - writing on back cut off; edges rough & uneven. Image surface scuffed & soiled.
One 6 x 10" black & white copy print. Written on back in pencil: "Rawlins Home" "Post Office" "at one time Richard Daley". [black ink] "This is the home of one of the Rankin Brothers, prominent men of early Rawlins. The U.S. Post Office (old P.O.) now stands here.
Stamped on back in black ink: "Meyers Studio Rawlins, Wyoming"
Good condition. Back soiled. Emulsion cracked along left side & top.Collection
Photograph Collection