Name/Title
Pony Express Museum Opening Photos (8), May 3, 1959Entry/Object ID
P1997.1P.604Description
Pony Express Museum Opening Photos (8), May 3, 1959. b/w Six photos taken at the grand opening of the Pony Express Museum after it had been purchased in 1950 and restored by the Goetz Foundation.
97.1P.604 = Flag raising ceremony on grounds of Pony Express Stables. Karl Goetz, back to camera, and another man beneath bare flag pole. Military Guard in foreground, crowd behind iron rail fence in background. Handwritten on back: " Pony Express Museum Opening, May 3, 1959."
97.1P.605 = Air National Guard team at ceremony. Bugler in front with horn under his arm. Four airmen with rifles at rest behind him. Handwritten on back: "Air National Guard at Flag Raising. Pony Express Museum Opening, May 3, 1959."
97.1P.606 = Flag flying from flag pole, Airman saluting. Goetz with back to camera in foreground, crowd at fence in background.
97.1P.607 = Group of people standing in front of Pony Express Museum on opening day, horse-drawn carriage in street, 1959 automobile parked at curb. Handwritten on back: "Pony Express Stables now a museum an hour or so before the opening."
97.1P.608 = Horse-drawn buggy with canopy parked outside Stables, Male driver and female passenger on buggy seat in western attire. Roy Coy beside buggy with hand on canopy. Crowd at Museum entrance. Handwritten on back: "Pony Express Museum Opening, May 3, 1959"
97.1P.609 = Unidentified young man on pinto pony standing in street outside the stable doors "Pony Express Stables" sign above arched doorway. Man has doffed his hat in salute. Handwritten on back: "Pony Express Museum Opening, May 3, 1959". See 97.1P.435, it identifies the man as one of the Missouri Kansas riders that would be participating in the 1960 re-run of the Pony Express in its centennial year.
97.1P.610 = Close-up view of crowd, backs to camera, examining panel of exhibits inside Pony Express Museum on opening day. Handwritten on back; "Pony Express Museum Opening, May 3, 1959"
97.1P.611 = Line of people with their backs to camera in front of exhibit panels inside Pony Express Museum on opening day. Newspaper headline the next day suggests 800 people viewed the exhibits that day. Handwritten on back: " Some of the crowd on Opening Day at the Pony Express Museum. and Pony Express Museum Opening, May 3, 1959"Made/Created
Date made
1959Place
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Pony Express Museum, Pony Express Museum Opening, 1959, Air National GuardRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Goetz, M. KarlPerson or Organization
Coy, RoyProvenance
Notes
Photos taken by Don Reynolds, SJM staff photographer
