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2016.738.4.1Scope and Content
Light blue three ring binder compiled by donor's father, Neal E. Miller, who was (for part of the time during which this was made) president of the Carbon County Historical Society in the 1950s. Piece of paper glued to the cover says "Neal E. Miller's Papers relating to Carbon Co. Historical Society in 1950's"
Contents:
-Empty, unused blue/gray envelope from Meyers Studio
-Empty manilla envelope sent from the State Archives and Historical Dept. in Cheyenne to Mr. and Mrs. Neal Miller in Rawlins in 1967
-Wyoming State Historical Society membership cards for Neal and Lael Miller, business card for Lola M. Homsher, Director of the Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department
-the constitution of the Carbon County Chapter of the Wyoming State Historical Society
-Correspondence section, in chronological order: to Lucille S. Wiley; to and from Lola M. Homsher; from Kathryne R. Bennett; from Kleber Hadsell; from Maurine Carley; to Mr. A. H. MacDougall
-clippings section, in chronological order: Neal Miller Heads Historical Society; Marker for Old Rawlins Springs Among Historical Group's Plans; County Group Makes Plans for Rawlins Springs Marker; Council Meeting Set Monday Night; Council Favors Plan to Mark Springs Site; County Commissioners Favor Plan to Mark Rawlins Springs; Historical Group Hears Talk on 'Wyoming Pioneer Ranches';
Historical Society Plans Trip June 15; Historical Society Tour Slated in July;County Historical Society Plans Tour North of Rawlins; Historical Society Group Tours Elk Mountain Region; Over 50 Attended Historical Trek; State Historical Society Holds Meeting in Casper; Trek Planned By Historical Society Here; Savery; History Group Tour is Sunday; Reffstaff Attends Dedication Rites;
Museum Gets History Items; History Group Tours Snake River Country; Rawlins Man Named to High Office in Historical Group; Historical Society Views Colored Slides; History Body Will Hear Authoresses; The Ghost Towns of Wyoming book promo; Frank Meyers picture envelope; An Eye-Opener on Wyoming; Two Wyoming Clubwomen Write About Wyoming Ghost Towns; Authors of Book About Ghost Towns in State to Speak Here; congratulations card from Rawlins National Bank to Neal Miller for becoming historical society president; 'Ghost Towns' Authors Talk to Historians;
Neal Miller Named County President of History Society; City Hall to Get Historical Marker; Hahn's Peak Story is Donated Here to County Museum; Historical Society to Have Program on Old Firearms; Historical Society Will See Display of Early Firearms; Display of Early Firearms Revives Memories of West; Exhibit Features Rawlins Springs Ornamental Marker; Foundry Will Pour Rawlins Springs Plaque This Week;
Historical Marker Now on Display at Chamber Office; $3 Million Colter Bay Tourist Site Opens; Plaques for Rawlins Springs To Be Dedicated During Fair; photo putting in the Rawlins Springs plaque; General Rawlins, for Whom City Was Named, Impressed by Springs; Employees Erect Base for Marker for Rawlins Springs;
Plaque Dedication Planned Friday; Hicks Will Speak; Local Man Donates Labor; Historical Marker Dedicated At Site of Rawlins Springs; Historical Society Sets State Meet In Cody This Week; Several New Items Given To Museum [piece of crating with "Post Q.M. USA, Rawlins, Wyo." marking, the model used to prepare the plaques for the dedication of Rawlins Springs, two large iron spike nails from Benton, a portion of an early day sheep shearing outfit, a picture of the gate at Carbon cemetery];
Historical Society Sees Old Photos of Rawlins Vicinity; Lander Men Will Speak Here at Historical Society Meet; Clarence E. Mow Donates Items to County Museum;
Barber Western Relics Presented to Museum [Native American and Western collection of Mrs. Barber and her mother Mrs. Florence Gardiner, a scrapbook, riding hat, spurs, and riding crop of Dr. Barber, Indian bow, framed picture of Geronimo, Sitting Bull, and Chief Bread Crow, a grass fan and Indian water jug, necklace made of buckskin over rope, ceremonial necklace made from deer bones with beadwork trimmings, collection of arrowheads, beaded pouch and several pairs of moccasins, woven Indian baskets, three tomahawks and rattles, head bands, strings of rocks and beads, Indian feather headdress, sandstone formation, deer hoofs and chair made from deer horns with a leather seat used by Dr. Barber in his waiting room, andiron made from wagon wheel];
Plaque Presented to Union Pacific By History Group; Historical Society to Name Officers at Feb. 2 Meeting; Kleber H. Hadsell Named President of History Society;
Historical Society Names Committees for Coming Year; Historical Society Meets Sunday; UW Prof Will Speak; History Prof Is Speaker Here Sunday; County Historical Society Sets First Trek This Sunday; Noted Author is Visiting Laramie; Laramie County Chapter Will Host State Historical Society Meeting; County Historians Take Trek To Old Forts, Stage Stations;
Historic Rawlins House is Being Torn Down; timeline of work leading up to City Council meeting of 11/10/1958; city council meeting article, title not included; legal notices section re: council meeting, which has the council conveying land to the Carbon County Historical Society for a museum; Historical Society Will Meet Nov. 30 at the Courthouse; Historical Society Votes in Favor of Incorporation;
Several New Items Are Received by the County Museum [bleeder, old Annuals of Wyoming, old school books, picture of the school exhibit at 1929 Carbon County Fair, picture frame ad for W. H. Wickham & Co., copies of Ed Tierney's speech notes]; County Will Assist Historical Society with Museum Site; Old Hitching Post Given to Museum by Rawlins VFW; Thorp Will Address Historical Society; Notice of Incorporation for Carbon County Historical Society; Union Pacific Engine 533 Nears Final Resting Place; Locomotive Donate to City Nearing Final Resting Place;
Historical Society Sets Annual Meet Sunday Afternoon; Historical Society to Have Cow-Camp Dinner at Meeting; Historians in County Hear Cattleman Speak;
Several Old Items Donated to Museum [old items used as personal effects by Harry Tomlin, powder measure, old pair of glasses, clamp-on holders for Christmas tree candles, rouge and powder holder]; Several Historical Items Received by County
Museum [manuscripts, spiked candle holder, powder flask, hammer for ox shoes, copy of address made to Carbon County Historical Society by Russell Thorp, file on old steam engine, Harry Tomlin personal items]; 1959 Committees Appointed for County Historical Group; Mayor Grieve appointed committee to investigate historical site;
Councilman Frank Gordon represents city on executive board of Carbon County Historical Society; Newell Post Lamp Given to Museum by Rawlins VFW; Governor Signs Museums Measure; County-Wide Program Opened by Historical Society Here; Photograph of Old Mail Stage is Donated to Museum; Peel at the Past (Dave Tweed, Dr. Thomas G. Maghee, Congressman Osborn, W. N. Coalter);
Steam Locomotives Are Gone But Long Way From Forgotten; Steam Engines Retire to Parks; Commissioners Study Request for New Road in Platte Valley; Shoshones Now Decorate Graves, Used to Bury Dead in Mountains; Only One Military Post Remains Out of Many Pioneer-Day Outposts; Bonnie Hunter's First Book On Indians Brings Deluge of Mail; They Tamed the West; May 21, 1909, 60 Years Ago; Site of Pine Grove Stage Station is Picturesque Spot;
New Officers, Awards Highlight Annual Historical Group Dinner; index card about the CCHS holding a meting with E. R. McAuslan, geologist, as speaker; Geologist to Speak to Carbon County Historical Society; Historical Society to Discuss Plans For State Meeting; Historical Society Plans Trek Over Overland Trail; Historical Group Sets First Trek; Wyoming History - Rawlins Red; Geology of Rawlins Area is Explained to Historians; State Historical Society Meets at Casper Saturday; The Wyoming Archives; Trek Slated on Overland Trail Sunday; 5 Temporary Markers Placed on Historical Society Trek;
Iron Ball Mystery at Museum Solved; Several Old Photos, Antique Furniture Donated to Museum [pictures of courthouse employees 1913, basketball team 1910-11, Charlie Burke, Teddy Roosevelt, umbrella tree-hat rack, gambling table, furniture used by Homer Merrell and Fenimore Chatterton, homestead certificate of John G. Savage]; Geologist to Speak to Carbon County Historical Society; New Officers
-activities section: paper copy of the text for the Rawlins Springs marker and the smaller plaque thanking Union Pacific, Sinclair, and the University of Wyoming; a list of Carbon County Chapter Wyoming State Historical Society activities;
copy of the sign that was on the Merrell bathtub when on display at the exhibition hall at the Carbon County Fairgrounds in 1956; typed notes on Stage Lines North Out of Rawlins, Wyoming; How Rawlins Obtained It's [sic] Name;
transcript of a speech given 1/27/1957 regarding Rawlins Springs plaque; agenda from 3/7/1957 meeting and 6/5/1957 meeting, 7/8/1957 executive board meeting; description of who owns the land around Rawlins Springs (leased to Historical Society); details about Plaque Dedication Ceremonies 8/25/1957; Chapter Report for 1957; postcard with information about a 2/2/1958 meeting of the Society which included election of officers and a program about the Overland Trail;
report on the Carbon County Chapter Wyoming Historical Society's 1957; letter to the members of the Society; Road Log for Immigrant Train - 6/29/1958 trek; partially hand-drawn map of a future museum site, description of building and contents; notes from Neal Miller - making a gavel for the County Chapter, donation of a plank from the original courthouse steps, plank turned into gavel; letter requesting the old Union Pacific Steam Engine in storage - reply saying no, new letter saying yes, letter asking for history of that particular engine and response; copy of a deed transferring land to the society for the display of the engine;
law permitting counties to acquire archaeological, geological, historical collections and operate county museums, and to levy a tax to support it;
list of what appear to be train, stage, and emigrant trail stops in WY, 1958-1959; brief Highlights in Carbon County History; snippets from a letter of Lola Homsher to Kleber Hadsell, appears to be about state historical society meeting in Rawlins; annotated version of the By-laws of the Carbon County Historical Society; minutes from a 12/31 meeting and a 1/4 agenda; materials relating to 1958 state historical society meeting - A. H. McDougall of Rawlins elected president of state society;
booklet from Buffalo, Wyoming's Diamond Jubilee; memo that the business of the Land Marks Commission is now handled by the State Library, Archives, and Historical Board, and asking for the historical society's assistance with future markers and upkeep of extant ones; list of members in various committees of the Society; 1959 membership list; repetition of the bill for counties to acquire history things; addresses to contact for historic prints; speech on Carbon County written for Rawlins Chamber of Commerce Lunch; advertisement for the historical society; letter entreating the public to join; information on the club's 6/28/1959 trek along the Overland Trail (multiple copies);
paper by L. C. Bishop at Annual Meeting of the Wyoming Pioneer Association; letter from Miss Lola M. Homsher; letter from Bob; list of people who went to state annual meeting; agenda for the 6th annual state meeting
-history section: The Timber Business in Southern Wyoming; Teller's Tie Camps on Pass Creek, French Creek, and Mullen Creek; Rawlins Spring Marker Project, October Report; Hahn's Peak, Monumental, Rich, Illusive by Mildred L. McIntosh; There Were Still Indian Raids After U.P. Railroad was Built; 10/1957 Union Pacific Bulletin; pamphlet on stage flag, state seal, state tree, etc.Collection
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