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Cole Creek Disaster

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

3 Pages from a 1923 Wyoming Family Photo Album

 Collection
Identifier: NCA 01.v.2024.01 WyCaC US
Content Description

3 pages from 1 1923 Wyoming Family Photo Album. The creator of the photo album was a doctor at the Lathrop Clinic in the Salt Creek Hospital. Photographs include those of the oil wells and oil fields; Lavoye, Wyoming; and sites and scenes of Casper and its surroundings. There are 24 photographs in total.

Dates: 1923

Beverly M. Holt and Kenney Gray Collection of Digitized Postcards

 Collection
Identifier: NCA 01.v.2024.10 WyCaC US
Scope and Contents This collection currently consists of a submission information package of 308 digital files of post cards of Casper and Natrona County. Subjects include banks, churches, the Cole Creek train wreck, hospitals, refineries, schools, streets and more. They pertain to the years 1902 to 1956 approximately. It looks like many of these post cards were purchased on eBay between 2004 and 2008 and were thus subsequently added to the Beverly M. Holt and Kenny Gray Collection, though it is not exactly...
Dates: 1902 - 1956

Charles "Chuck" Morrison Collection

 File
Identifier: NCA 01.v.1998.01 US WyCaC
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...
Dates: 1835 - 1988

Dr. V.A. Bacon Family Photo Album, 1923

 Item
Content Description This collection consists of 3 pages from 1 1923 Wyoming Family Photo Album. The creator of the photo album was a doctor at the Lathrop Clinic in the Salt Creek Hospital, Dr. V.A. Bacon. He and his wife were married on the night of the Cole Creek Disaster. Photographs include those of the oil wells and oil fields; Lavoye, Wyoming; and sites and scenes in Casper and of its surroundings. There are 23 photographs in total and researchers will find a newspaper article titled "Dr. Bacon Joins the...
Dates: 1923

Jerry Harper Collection

 Collection
Identifier: NCA 01.i.2016.02 WyCaC US
Content Description The Jerry Harper Collection consists of three folders. Researchers will find articles on and material created by the Casper Boot and Spur Club including the Club's 5th Annual Horse Show photograph taken in May of 1935. Also inluded is issue Number (No.) Forty of the Burlington Bulletin, a publication of the Burlington Route Historical Society, which contains a feature article on the Cole Creek Disaster; a December 1946 telephone directory for Casper, Glenrock, and Midwest; and a portrait of...
Dates: 1935 - 1946