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2015.180.11.90Scope and Content
Rans Briefcase Contents: File #1 of 3 files.
Includes: clippings on eagle regulations for tribal use in Sun Dance; Handwritten notes on research on street and property locations of businesses and people in the years 1881-1895 (properties on Cedar Street and 4th, Cedar Street and 5th, Cedar Street and 3rd; 4th Street. (in addition to newspaper research, Rans went to the county offices and recorded ownership through their records).
Notes on Parco Airways; Parco Motor Co.; Encampment Store Co.; Wyoming-Illinois Petroleum;
A brown spiral notebook containing research on the town of Rawlins plat and ownership of the various lots, businesses and houses through the years1890-1945, includes map of the J. W. Hugus and Ferguson building through the years 1883-1931, showing changes. Notebook maybe correlated to the Walking Tour Brochure that Rans and Dan worked on. Some buildings: Sweetland, Palace Candy (Rifleman Club), Kremich building (Viewfinder); Leo Keller building, 2nd Civic Opera House; 1st National Bank;Elks; Hugus-Ferguson Building; 416 West Cedar; Osborne Building and other.
Clipping on Butch Cassidy and his later life doubting his death in Bolivia; Notes on Wyoming Saloon (Bar)
Copies of the Rawlins Republican, 4/9/1902 with photos and articles of people and businesses in Rawlins. Paper photo of Homer France Business with Blydenburgh showing Carbon County Journal Office, and John Friend, Justice of the Peace; Paper photo of F. J. Keefe Corner Grocery;10/2/1902 Rawlins Republican, showing William Daley Ranch 15 miles west of Rawlins (2 copies); Rawlins Republican, Pictorial Edition page from 1/25/1902, pg. 29, shows the New Ferris Hotel Building and an article on the Ferris and Rendle Shelf and Heavy hardware Wagons and Agricultural Implements Business: Page 2 shows Central School, Rawlins Churches, Catholic, Episcopal. View of Hansen Mercantile Co., H. Hansen, D. T. Dunlap, Interior of the Mercantile. Article on the Rawlins Mercantile Co. Bennett Hardware Co., J. P. Ryan; Osborne Brick Block, new; Old Landmarks removed to make Room for Osborne Building included photo of old landmarks at corner of 5th and Cedar showing Rankin Brothers old livery stable and the old Rawlins Drug Store before the work of removing these land marks was begun to make room for the Osborne building. Article on Coal Mines in Carbon County;
Photo and articles from Republican on H. Larsen, showing photo of Residence and office; O'Donnell & Quinlan Grocery Business, Rawlins Steam Laundry; Full page on J. W. Hugus and Co. with photos inside and outside, 1/25/1902, pg. 30, Rawlins Republican. 3 photos on page of Rawlins Republican, 1889, 1918, 1924; Photo of Northwest corner of 5th and Cedar showing Jungquist Hardware, Foster Building, 5th Street Opera House, and Dr. Osborne's old office; Street scene of firehose company with sign that says, "safety first."
Three photos on page that are very difficult to see. Lower is a view of business part of town by the tracks. Copy of newspaper clipping of Camp Rankin and the Paulsen Mine with map of the wnd Rawlins Copper District, from pg. 5, 6/8/1909 Republican; Copy of ad for Rawlins Drug Store, Dr. J. E. Osborne, Prop.; photocopy of Rankin Brothers 2nd Livery Barn, after 1882, westside of 5th Street, 100 block; building on the far right is the rawlins Drug on the southwest, corner of 5th and Cedar, built in 1879; photocopy of Rawlins 1879; photocopy of Carbon County Courthouse, with history; Carbon Store, Union Pacific Coal Company, Carbon, Wy; Carbon, WY photocopy; Wagon Trains going through Rawlins, WY, photocopy; photocopy of old courthouse and Wyoming Penitentiary; photocopy of Ferguson Mercantile Col., Rawlins Republican, 1/15/1910, pg. 5;
Photocopy of downtown Rawlins, P. H. Healy Tobacco, 106 N. 4th and Conyers Dray, 1907, 1908, 108 N. 4th; Jungquist Hardware Store photocopy, 5th and Cedar, information on back; photocopy of Front Street from 3rd Street West. Picture taken after Dec. 1880 when the 3rd and 4th private street lamps were put in, showing J. W. Hugus & Co. and others.
Photocopy of James France's Stone Business Building and Home, west end of the 400 block of Front Street, 1879. Three photocopies on one sheet of paper: Tires and Tubes, Pay'n Takit (I.O.O.F), ? ; photocopy of building that burned and the old Post Office; photocopy of Rawlins Street Scene on 4th Street and Cobb Block (old Hoffman Block)Collection
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