Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1956.256.0008Description
Baggs, 1896
Update March 2011: Black & white print & one opy print of early day Baggs, WY. On right side of photo is a line of buildings that are log or wood slab with false fronts, one has an awning out. Building closest to right is a two story with multiple windows on the front. Across the street is another log building with sign reading: "The Silver Club", another reading: "Restaurant". In the street is a wagon with double seats, a man & woman sitting on the front seat. Two buggies with women in them are beside a store. People are standing on the porch of the store & three men mounted on horses are in photo center. Left foreground is a road & center & right foreground is brush on sparesly vegetated ground. Numbers "1-6" are above buildings in blue ink:
(Written on back in black ink: "Baggs, Wyoming business district 1896 Identification on buildings 1. Hotel & diining rooms of the W P Penland Hotel. Mr. Penland was the father of Glenn Penland one time Carbon County Sheriff 2. Ledford General Merchandise Store 3. Unidentified 4. Saloon 5. Kirk Calvert General Merchandise Store 6. Saloon & Restaurant. The man on horseback marked with the arrow is Walter Gooldy who clerked in the Ledford Store to earn money to go to college. He attended Columbia Law School & practiced law in New York City")
Written in black on back: "Copy by state Mounted"
Fair condition. Top left corner creased, top right & bottom left corner torn, creased, scratched, taped on back & front, faded. Size 6 3/8 x 9 3/8"
Copy print - Written on back in black ink: "(Written on back in black ink: "Baggs, Wyoming business district 1896 Identification on buildings 1. Hotel & diining rooms of the W P Penland Hotel. Mr. Penland was the father of Glenn Penland one time Carbon County Sheriff 2. Ledford General Merchandise Store 3. Unidentified 4. Saloon 5. Kirk Calvert General Merchandise Store 6. Saloon & Restaurant. The man on horseback marked with the arrow is Walter Gooldy who clerked in the Ledford Store to earn money to go to college. He attended Columbia Law School & practiced law in New York City")
Good condition. Slight creasing, wrinkled, adhesive residue on back from previous mounting.
Size 5 x 7"Collection
Photograph Collection