Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1950.112.0002Description
Photo of group of people standing in front of the Grand Hotel, Casper, July 4, 1902. Rolla Clark, rancher; Ol Rice, early day sheriff; W. A. Denecke, sheepman & banker; ?; Jack Wright, sheepman & banker; Laura Patton, elder daughter of the Hugh Pattons; Irma Patton, younger daughter of the Hugh Pattons (Mrs. Silas Brooks); Dr. Fred Salathe, oil refinery head; Mrs. Salathe; Valarie Salathe; Mayme Smiley (Mrs. Frank Scherck); Isabell Wheeler, (Mrs. Fritz Craig); Mrs. Kenneth McDonald; J. S. Van Doren, saddle maker, later postmaster, councilman; Abbey Brooks (Mrs. R. H. Nichols); Mrs. Rolla Clark; ?; Mrs. Jeff Crawford; Pat Royce, justice of peace, sheriff, town marshall; Mrs. N. S. Bristol, mother of Mrs. C. H. Townsend; Mrs. B. B. Brooks; Wilson S. Kimball, Jr.; Mrs. W. S. Kimball; Mrs. Blance Merrick, sister of Mrs. Kimball); Wilson S. Kimball, drugstore owner, mayor; Mrs. Frank Webb; Mrs. Dan Rhoades (Freda Von Thukin); Jake Crouse, rancher; Lew Seely, gunsmith and oil prospector; Mrs. C. H. Townsend (Lily Bristol); ?; Mrs. Jack McGrath (Laura Stroud); William "Missou" Hines, livestock solicitor for railroad and cowboy; P. A. Demoreat, restuarnt owner; G. E. Butler; ?; Park Hays, town clerk, newspaper publisher; Wm. "Posthole" McGrath, rancher, justice of peace; A. J. Mokler, newspaper publisher, author of the Natrona County History; Marion P. Wheeler, county clerk, insurance; Walter A. Blackmore, rancher, merchant, mayor; Frank Bull, county treasurer; Bryant B. Brooks, rancher, banker, state governor; Peter C. Nicolaysen, lumber dealer, banker.
Update 2009: Sepia snapshot mounted on tan mat board. "Casper" written in pencil across the top of matboard . "Saratoga erased". Written on right margin in pencil: Gov. B.B. Brooks an dJudy Ash/ in ink: N.K.Boswell. Large group of men, women and children standing on a large wooden porch of a brick building with huge glass windows. Everyone dressed in their finery. Men in 3 piece suites with watch chains across their vests. Women in long dresses with elaborate hats, many with large feathers and colorful ribbons. Girls and boys dressed in their Sunday clothes . Horse hitching post in left foreground. American flag flying to left of the hanging lamp. Two "Kismet Plus Tobacco" signs in front of the porch platform.
Condition: Fair. Tan mat board has torn corners and many specks on entire board. Size 7 7/8 x 10.
Written on back in ink: Given to museum by Mrs. Geo. Bible. Written on back in pencil: #112. Picture of people in front of Grand Central Hotel, Casper, Wyoming, July 4, 1902."Collection
Photograph Collection