Name/Title
Rans Baker Personal FilesEntry/Object ID
2015.180.11.138Scope and Content
Folders:
RANS' CERTIFICATES
Includes official certificates and diplomas for various accomplishments.
RANS' CORRESPONDENCE, PERSONAL: 1, DANIEL Y. MESCHTER
Correspondence and research for Daniel Y. Meschter author and historian from 1993-1996 concerning Rankin Family including Joe and Jim; maps; Rankin Mining Claims; Rankin listing in Deeds book; Joe Manuse (Minuse); Rankin Creek; James Averell and Ella Watson; book "Sweetwater Sunset"
RANS' CORRESPONDENCE, PERSONAL: 2
Email queries, letters, regarding long distance horse rides; personal notes; thank you cards; congratulation cards; legal documents; people: Harry Chapman; Donna Ernst, Sundance Kid; Mike Dunbar;
Photographs of Shattuck Military School grounds and buildings, Fairbault, MN;Larry K. Brown, author; Mabel Brown Award; obituary of Charles E. Lee Harnden originally of Medicine Bow.
RANS' JOB INFO
Thank you letters for donations to the museum; job application with museum; AAM membership; appointment to Rawlins Landmark Committe; notes; resumes.
RANS' KINDERGARTEN CLASS 1942-1943; PRESCHOOL-SHATTUCK, FAIRBAULT; COLORADO COLLEGE, SOPHOMORE YEAR
Photographs from these years. There are multiple copies of many.
RANS' LECTURE INFORMATION
Includes list of needed items, clippings, pictures;
advertising posters
map of Fort Fred Steele with notes
map of UPRR Round house and shops, airmail field, race track, Lincoln Highway, etc.
Other maps
Clippings on navy ships called "Wyoming;" John C. Davis, Roblin H. Davis and John C. Davis, Jr.; Strand Theater; Train Wreck, R. L. Lovall killed; Shope Brick Process at Parco; Last Stand of Cattlemen in Moffat County; E. Brown section foreman who discovered tampered rail during the Big Nose George event retelling story in 1926;
Opium Bob; Bob Lacy; North and South Railroad; Steam Passenger Trains, 1927; Wyoming Reporter Newspaper; "Cannon Ball" Baker and coast to coast record breaking General motors Truck, 1927;
1997 Daily Times with article on renovating the Depot; Historic sites on former Sun Ranch to open; photocopies of houses and train engine 2052 with 5 men standing in front.Collection
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