Cole Creek Disaster

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.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 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 once they were digitized.

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...

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...