Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1955.238.0005Description
Black & white print. Studio pose. Mounted on tan matboard. Full length portrait. Image of 19 children. Children in what appear to be early 1700's costumes - boys are all wearing white curly wigs. Many of the girls are holding fans.
Written on back: [blue ink] "Central School about 1896" "1-ap" "fourth grade students of Miss Helen Bennet's class in Rawlins Central School dressed for a play. This picture was taken about 1896." [black ink] "Copied by State" [pencil] "50% Page 71, pix 1 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" "5265".
Mounted on acidic matboard. Cut down from original size - edges rough & uneven. Back soiled. Emulsion scratched & dented; fingerprints on surface. Faded.
One copy print. Written on back in black ink: "Fourth Grade students of Miss Helen Bennett's class in Rawlins Central School dressed for a play. Picture taken about 1896"
Stamped in black: "Copy Provided by the Wyoming State Archives & Historical Department" "Neg. No. 6265"
Good condition. Adhesive on back from tape, bottom torn, rainbow creasing, lower left corner creased.Collection
Photograph Collection