Name/Title
Photograph, CabinetEntry/Object ID
1947.006.0022Description
Photo of the First Methodist Church in 1881.
Update 2008: Black and white print attached gray matboard of the Methodist church, Rawlins, Wyo. Photo depicts a white wooden structure with tall windows with square bottom and oval shaped at top, wooden shingled roof. Side center of building extends out from left and right side of building. Has a steeple on left side of building roofline. A man dressed in black is standing on barren ground in front of building. A small white building is to left of church with some smaller wooden structure in background left. A hill is seen in horizon. Two wooden structures are to right rear of church building. The foreground has few weeds at edge and rest of land is barren. Appears to have trench dug at front left of land.
Printed in black on front from negative left bottom: Methodist church, Rawlins, Wyo.
Printed on back in blue ink: M.D. Houghton Photographer. All kinds of photographic work, Rawlins, Wyo.
Written in blue ink: "First Methodist Church 1881.
Written in blue ink: "Copied by State."
Fair condition. Print is very soiled front and back with worn edges and corners resulting in abrasion of matboard. There are flecks of brown residue at top left, top of print and right edge. Fine scratches are seen throughout emulsion surface. Back side has adhesive and white paper residue affixed to the surface from having been removed from surface which it was adhered to.
Update July 2011: Black & white copy print.
Written on back in blue ink: "First Methodist Church in 1881"
Printed in black: "Copy Provided by the Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department"
Good condition. Wrinkled. Size 5 x 7"Collection
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