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This collection features several different photos of early Casper History from 1889 to 1986, including individuals, ranches and farmhouses, early downtown Casper, buildings and businesses of Casper, schools of Casper, the Chamber of Commerce, people, animals, and other pieces of Casper History captured in photos taken by Edna Gornell Kukura and Susan Niethammer True.

Content Description

This collection contains 48 digital copies of photographs that were photographed and/or scanned from a collection of the Casper Downtown Development Authority's in November of 2008. Photographs show buildings and businesses in downtown Casper as photographed primarily on 2nd, Center, and Wolcott streets. Photographs appear to date from between the 1930s and 1990s primarily. Many of the photographs were being used as part of an exhibit and are documented here individually.

Scope and Contents The Frances Seely Webb Collection contains over 1,400 photographs, correspondence, handwritten research notes, the proof copy of Webb's book, Casper's First Homes, and a series of scrapbooks. Materials documents Casper buildings, cultural institutions, homes, and society from 1890-1978. Also included are photographs of individuals and groups visually documenting Casper society. In addition are items originally collected by Boney Earnest, a frontiersman and former member of the Natrona County...

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This collection contains photographs taken by Kevin Anderson in and around 2002. This is only an approximate date. Many of the photographs are of downtown Casper, Wyoming. Though none are labeled, these document buildings both inside and outside. Other photographs inlclude an Olympic Torch Bearer passing the Goodstein Foundation Library, Garfield Elementary School, as well as Margaret Demorest sitting at the Verda James desk held by the repository.

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The Mrs. Robert Blackmore collection consists of 140 photographs dating from 1888 to 1938, including images of the Blackmore family and friends, the Standard and Midwest Oil Refineries, the Gothberg Ranch, and historical photographs of early buildings in Casper, Wyoming and various locations in Bessemer, Wyoming. The collection also includes letters, writings, genealogical information, scrapbook pages, news clippings, and various family documents.