Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1947.006.0023Description
Photo of Cottage Hotel on the NW corner of 5th and Buffalo.
Update - 2009: black & white print. Snapshot. Image of a large two-story clapboard building with a full length single story front porch. Roof has perpendicular peaks - left side facing front; right side parallel to front. Two chimneys & exhaust pipe on roofline. Dirt road in foreground.
Written on back:[pencil] "Cottage Hotel" "(9)" "8" [red pencil] "copied by State" [black ink] "and mounted".
Post-it on back: "NW corner 5th and Buffalo. Originally S. L. Willis residence. In May 1900, 23 rooms were created for a hotel. Sold to Mrs. John C. Childs in 1904.
Badly soiled. Back surfaced missing at lower edge from tape removal(?). Transparent tape on back. Removed yellow post-it from back of print. Emulsion soiled. Upper right bent multiple times - emulsion cracked. Upper right corner missing; slight damage to other corners. Emulsion cracked at bottom center; tape residue? in upper left.
One 6 1/4 x 10 black & white copy print.
Written on back: [pencil] "Westland Savings & Loan" [black ink] "This is the old Cottage Hotel 5th & Buffalo Sts." [pencil] "Rawlins Business"
Stamped on back in black ink: "Meyers Studio Rawlins, Wyoming".
Long horizontal scratch front upper right edge. Emulsion cracked in places.
One 3 1/2 by 5 1/8 black & white copy print.
Written on back in black ink: "Cottage Hotel" "Where Westland Saving & Loan stands".
Update March 2011: One black & white copy print (size 5 x 7")
Written on back in black ink: "Cottage Hotel on corner of Buffalo and Fifth"
Stamped in black: "Copy Provided by the Wyoming State Archives & Historical Department"
Good condition. Slight crease, corners worn. Size 5 x 7"Collection
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