Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2011.180.7.90Description
Black & white print on black mat. Print shows a large room with vintage floral wallpaper and border. A large group of 19 men are in a semi circle around a casket and funeral arrangement in the middle of the room. The men are dressed in dark suits, vests, shirts and neckwear. In the foreground are floral bouquets lying on the patterned carpeted floor. An Elkhorn chair is covered with ornate flora arrangements. Behind the buckskin fringed back rest of the Elkhorn chair is a flag covered table? with a mounted deer head resting on a box on the flag. The casket is to photo right of this display. The casket top is covered with ornate floral arrangements over entire top surface. The casket has ornate metal handles seen on visible side and is resting on an elevated wheeled device. There is a dark wooden mantle behind men on the left an windows to left and right of this mantle. On left window frame at top outer edge is large letter P. On right window top frame, left to right is the letter O, mounted large elk head, and the letter E. A tall dark wooden cabinet is against wall photo right with a long hanging light descending from high ceiling. A floral shaped covering is attached to cart and covering the top of the bulb. Engraved in lower right corner: "The Ferris Studios Rawlins, Wyo."
Written on back in black ink: "Old Elk Hall 44th & Cedar, E. Kruger, Jim Clause, John Hartt, Will Reid, H. Rasmussen, Ike Lambertson, (Wm) Healy, Chip Reid, Chas. Watson, (Frank) Reid, Trimble.
Written on yellow post it note in pencil: "Funeral in the original Elks Club Room on the 2nd floor of their bldg. on the S. W. Corner of 4th & Cedar Streets Rawlins Wyo. Between 1901-1907. Building built by the Masons in 1880/82. They sold it to the Elks in 1901 who soon sold it to the Odd Fellows. The bldg was destroyed by fire Dec. 31 1935"
Good condition. Silvering, mat scuffed. Size10 x 12"
Note - see also 1951.162.0374.Collection
Photograph Collection