Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2008.1008.1.452Description
Five black & white copy prints. Snapshot. Image of a woman & three children at the outlet of a small water pipe. Children are sitting on a log above the pipe. Woman dressed in short checkered dress & sunbonnet, is leaning over holding a glass in the water stream. Wood sided ditch collects the water & transports it; planks of wood over ditch top. Scrub-covered hill in background. (NOTE: Photo says Rawlins Springs but this is most likely Smiley Springs, west of Rawlins in the old Rawlins Country Club area).
Print #1. 3 3/4 x 2 1/2" Written on back: [pencil] "Rawlins Springs" [black ink] "Rawlins Springs - 1920" "Grace, Billy & Cora. Mae Foster - " " Ernest Neath". "Stamped on back in blue ink: "Professional Photo Services Apr- 8 '68 Frank J. Meyers Rawlins, WYO."
Emulsion cracked throughout. Surface missing in lower right corner.
Print #2. 3 3/4 x 2 1/2" Written on back i n pencil: "Rawlins Springs 1920" "Grace, billy & Cara,[sic] or Cova[sic][Cora] Mae Foster & Ernest Neath" "Rawlins Springs" [White adhesive label] "Rawlins Springs". Stamped on back is same as Print #1.
Emulsion dented; slightly soiled; cracked in upper left.
Print #3. 6 1/2 x 5 1/16" Written on back in blue ink: "-1920" "Grace, Billy and Cora May Foster, and Ernest Neath" "Neg. No 6664 Print No. 114" Typed on white adhesive label pasted to back: "Rawlins Spring[sic]Rawlins, Wyoming" Stamped on back in black ink: "Print No. 114" "Copy provided by the Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department.
Print #4. 9 7/8 x 8" Written on back: [blue ink] "Rawlins Spring" [pencil] "Grace Foster, Billy foster Cora Mae Foster" "Page 4, pix 2 4 3/4 x 5 -67%" "Neg No. 6664" Stamped on back in blue ink: Professional Photo Services Mar 29 '68 Frank J. Meyers Rawlins, Wyo" Stamped on back in black ink: "Neg. No. [written] 6664" "Print No. [written] 114".
Back soiled. Writing on back impacting emulsion. Emulsion cracked throughout.
Print #5. 10 x 8" Mounted on off-white matboard. Written on back in black ink: "Copied & mounted".
Paperclip mark on back of mat in upper right, back soiled. Liquid spots on emulsion; emulsion scratched & cracked in places.Collection
Photograph Collection