Name/Title
Photograph, CabinetEntry/Object ID
1948.047.0020Description
Photo of Ora Ruffcorn (Mrs. Will Reid), Carrie Foster, Cressie Haller, Mrs. Grace Magor (Norrie) France, Effie Seeley (Mrs. Will Edwards), Nell Sullivan Jones. Taken about 1895, Rawlins.
Update 2009: Black and white print attached to ivory colored mat printed with tiny gold print on lower edge: Wagner Omega Photo Studio Rawlins, Wyo.
Print shows a group of six women all dressed in various colored leg-of-mutton sleeved blouses, long skirts, and long waist tie aprons, light colored. The women are standing and seated and appear to be pulling taffy or bread dough with each other. A woman at background right is holding a croissant in her left hand with her right hand on her waist. A wrinkled patterned carpet covers the floor. There are tiny black ink numbers on the women's aprons, and written at bottom of mat in black ink: "1. Roughcorn[sic][Ruffcorn] Ora; 2. Foster, Carrie; 3. Holler, Cressie; 4. Magor, Grace; 5. Sealey, Effie; 6. Sullivan, Nell.
Written on back in blue ink: 1. Roughcorn[sic][Ruffcorn] Ora (Mrs. Will Reid); 2. Foster, Carrie; 3. Holler, Cressie; 4. Magor, Grace; (Norrie France) 5. Sealey, Effie; (Will Edwards) 6. Sullivan, Nell. (Jones). about 1985 Rawlins, Wyo.
Written in red pencil: Copied by state.
Good condition with heavy soiling front and back with wear on edges and all corners, with top layer of top left and right corners missing. Print is fading. There are scratches, smudges and fingerprints on emulsion surface. Several white dots from developing process are seen side right.
There are two copies of this print.
Copy 1: Has black lines down sides of print as well as developing white spots. Very faded look due to original. Good condition with minor scratches and indents in emulsion surface. 5 x 7.
Written on back in pencil: Six women from Rawlins, Wyo 1895. CCM Neg. # 10816.
Stamped on back in black: Copy provided by the Wyo. State Archives and Historical Dept.
Copy 2: Good condition. Faded copy from original print. Slight wrinkled top edge with small indents at top left edge. Slight smudge on back left.
Written on back in pencil: Six women from Rawlins, Wyo 1895. CCM Neg. # 10816.
Stamped on back in black: Copy provided by the Wyo. State Archives and Historical Dept.
Copy 3. Black & white contact print.
Written on back in pencil: Carbon county Museum Neg # 10816"
"1. Ora Ruffcorn married Will Reid 2. Carrie Foster 3. Cressie Holler 4. Grace Magor (Mrs. Nellie France) 5. Effie Seeley (Mrs. Will Edwards) 56. Nell Sullivan (Mrs. Jones)
Typed on white adhesive tag: "1. Ora Ruffcorn married Will Reid 2. Carrie Foster 3. Cressie Holler 4. Grace Magor (Mrs. Nellie France) 5. Effie Seeley (Mrs. Will Edwards) 56. Nell Sullivan (Mrs. Jones)
Stamped in black: "Copy provided by the Wyoming State Archives & Historical Dept."
Good condition. Scratched & bent top left. "#1 & 4" written on aprons in black ink"
Size 4 5/8 x 6 5/8 "Collection
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