Casper (Wyo.) -- History -- Pictorial works.

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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The Sheffner-McFadden Collection consists of family photographs and albums, postcards, and photographs of early-day Casper, Wyoming, that had been collected by Genevieve Sheffner Shultz. Other materials include a notebook belonging to Frances C. Butler (Sheffner), an East Side High School Class of 1918 Yearbook, and a letter to Jean C. Mcfadden from prolific Wyoming writer Peggy Simson Curry.

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The Ruth Scott Hocker Collection contains 67 postcards and photographs of Casper and Wyoming. They date from between approximately 1907 and 1919.

Content description The subjects of the Winnie Bucknum Davis Collection of photographs are early Casper and Wyoming pioneers from approximately 1889 to 1945. They include the Bucknum and Davis families among others. There are several photographs of Davis including one with Casper's C.H. Townsend. Researchers will also find copies of a photograph of Calvin Collidge with Wyoming Senetaors Kendricks and Sullivan during his 1926 trip. Other photographs of potential interest include early photographs of wool...