Name/Title
Relay Station Exhibit, Pony Express Museum, Photos (21), 1993Entry/Object ID
P1997.1P.892Description
Relay Station Exhibit, Pony Express Museum, Photos (21), 1993. color. Snapshots taken during the installation and finished exhibit at the newly renovated and expanded Pony Express National Memorial. A re-construction of a Pony Express Relay Station as it might have looked in 1860-1861. The exterior is of chinked vertical logs and wood shake roof, with stone chimney. The interior includes hand-crafted table and bunk beds. Some photos show museum staff members chinking or mortaring. One photo shows the "raw" logs just after harvest and cutting, ready to be transported to the Museum.
97.1P.894-897 = Exterior of finished relay station
97.1P.898 = Chimney end of finished relay station exterior
97.1P.899 = Exterior seen from near entrance with interpretive sign. very dark.
97.1P.900 = Interior focusing on table/chairs, entrance door to photo right, chimney behind table.
97.1P.901 = Interior focus on chimney hearth
97.1P.902-903 = Interior focus on bund beds.
97.1P.904 = Unidentified men mixing mortar for chimney in wheelbarrow.
97.1P.905 = Two staff members applying chinking between exterior logs. Faces not shown, but person in foreground likely Jackie Lewin.
97.1P.906 = Unidentified staff member chinking logs, may be Mary Knab.
97.1P.907 = Three staff chinking logs. Faces not visible but likely back to front: unidentified, Robbie Sipes, Jackie Lewin.
97.1P.908 = Two unidentified women applying mortar to chimney. One of the women is on ladder with bucket on top, trowel in her hand.
97.1P.909 = Hallway in front of relay station during installation, with work materials.
97.1P.910 = Wooden rail fence along a snow field. This fence was used as a model for building the rail fence outside the relay station exhibit.
97.1P.911 = Row of cut logs laying in a field. These are the logs that were cut for use in building the relay station replica as an exhibit at the Museum.
97.1P.912 = b/w Snapshot of finished relay station, exterior taken looking directly through doorway to interior.Made/Created
Artist
St. Joseph Museum StaffDate made
1993Place
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 Relay Station Exhibit, Pony Express Relay Station
