Charles "Chuck" Morrison Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection includes records from the Cole Creek Wreck including passenger lists, obituaries, and correspondence; records of New York Oil Company in Casper; District Court correspondence and files; Personal Correspondence between Wyoming State Representative Chuck Morrison and other Wyoming Representatives; Chuck Morrison writing to his family and friends, etc ; letters Chuck Morrison received and sent to various ski and outdoor clubs; ski and wildlife magazines; Chuck Morrison's historical stories and articles he wrote while working for the Casper Star-Tribune newspaper; photographs taken and collected by Chuck Morrison of Wyoming's historical sites, churches, neighborhoods, cemeteries, local flora and fauna, etc. ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s; personal photographs of Chuck Morrison's family, property, etc.; boxes of negatives related to the rest of the photos and photo rolls; Chuck Morrison's WWII credentials, awards, and photographs from his time in WWII; a special collection of letters of correspondence between Chuck Morrison, his mother, his father, and his friends, written during his time in World War II; and a special items box containing some of the plaques and awards Chuck Morrison earned over the years for writing, sportsmanship, photography, etc.
Dates
- 1835 - 1988
Creator
- New York Oil Company (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Processed parts of this collection are open to research use with a research appointment made in advance.
Extent
Approximately 39.0 (49 Archival Boxes) Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Physical Location
212-R-2L-2H-7.50 212-R-3L-3H-10.75 212-O-2L-2H- 8.0 212-O-3L-3H-10.0
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Kevin Anderson; Mary Lou Morrison
Accruals
No Accruals Anticipated
Source
- Charles Morrison (Person)
Creator
- New York Oil Company (Organization)
- Frank G. Curtis (Person)
- Title
- Charles (Chuck) Morrison Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Hanz Olson and Hannah Baldwin
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Casper College Archives and Special Collections Repository
125 College Drive
Casper Wyoming United States 82601 United States
3072682549
hanz.olson@caspercollege.edu