Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1947.001.0021Description
Black & white print. Snapshot. Image of a parade moving down a dirt street. Buildings in background. Wagon draped with bunting, pulled by a four horse hitch carrying a band at front of a line of mounted men. Man, woman & child standing on boardwalk in foreground left. Tall flagpole at center in front of wood frame buildings; large American flag flying from it. Sign on wood building: "Rawlins Fire Department". Large stone building in background with hills behind. (courthouse)
Written on back: [blue ink] "1-H looking north on Fifth Street when soldiers left for Spanish American War" [blue pencil] "mounted" [black ink] "-copied by state" [pencil] "Valuable photo - Return to Peverley" "4 1/4 x 4 1/2" "53%" "16" [pencil on white adhesive label] "Rawlins St Scenes" [pencil] "1898".
Written on yellow post-it taped to back: "200 Block of 5th east side Site of present Rawlins City Hall" "First bldg on right was Jungquist Warehouse, next bldg north is Fire Hose house & city hall. Dark bldg next north was James Candish blacksmith shop" "Photograph April 30th 1898"
Transparent tape on back-top center & left. Back soiled. Emulsion scratched; cracked in upper left & lower edge.Collection
Photograph Collection