Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1955.912.32bDescription
Street scene of the town of Darwin during the winter of 1913-1914.
Written in blue ink on reverse: Winter 1913-14. Looking up Darwin Main St. Original barn 1876--on left--Black Metal Saloon, Charlie Long's house where first fire started Aug. 17, 1917 small house--Jack Gunn's original saloon 1876--[illegible word in parenthesis]--right--Etcharren's home where July 7, 1918 fire started, built in early days--next general merchandise store (Reynolds)--on up original hotel 1876--next old bldgs. See picture Mrs. Loughrey's restaurant and Carthery home--original Defiance property. Our old school on corner across from Carthery home--built 1876-7 as a restaurant then a home 1890s and 1900 became our school house until new one built above town 1914. Elizabeth L. Mecham 1977.
This photo was included with manuscript 1955.912.32a, in which Elizabeth Mecham writes of this photo: Enclosed are some more pictures for the museum--I've been going through old films and these show what a nice little old [town] Darwin was back in the 1910s--before our fires. The faint two show how the main street looked "wide--to turn a 16 mule team around in" also the barn door was high and wide to drive team and wagons in--the big corrals in back and side--(right) the house behind the fence (left) we called "McCloud's house" in early 1900s was built in boom days by them--planted the locust trees from slips from Lone Pine 1876, survived many years until 1918 fire--front porch of the original store and front of the old hotel.
There is another copy (1955.912.88) of this photo from Elizabeth Mecham that has different notes written on the reverse.Collection
Elizabeth and Richard Mecham Collection