The Capitol Building is just visible at the end of the road. (WSA P2010-1/71) (read more)
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The Capitol Building is just visible at the end of the road. (WSA P2010-1/71) (read more)
The Plaza Hotel, now a Best Western affiliate, is located on leased land in Hot Springs State Park. The hot tub is fed with mineral water ... (read more)
Lee & Ellen Giles and family stop to talk to their neighbor, Tom Fortune, on Main Street. (WSA P77-18/17) (read more)
The high school building was razed when the new building was built. The tabernacle still stands but has been remodeled. (read more)
Lake Guernsey State Park is located 30 miles north of Wheatland. During the 1930s, the lake hosted a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. The CCC was a ... (read more)
Built in 1926, the South Torrington depot was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles as a combined passenger ... (read more)
The Sheridan Inn was built in 1893 by the Burlington Railroad and Sheridan Land Company to draw visitors to the area. It was lavishly decorated and ... (read more)
(WSA SHER-47) (read more)
In 1877, the Searight Brothers trailed a herd of 27,000 cattle from Texas and settled on Poison Spider Creek, founding the Goose Egg Ranch. A two-story ... (read more)
Independence Rock was a major landmark for pioneers traveling West along the Oregon, Mormon and California Trails which converged in this area. Over 5,000 travelers carved ... (read more)
The Wyoming Farm Board of Commissioners and U.S. Department of Agriculture established a field station and experiment farm here around 1912. The University of Wyoming operated ... (read more)
Studio portrait of Felix Alson (WSA Sub Neg 23898) (read more)
1911 prison baseball team, Felix (Bud) Alston, son of warden Felix Alston, bat boy, photo by M.F. Jukes (WSA Sub Neg 9664, P93-33/3) (read more)
Alston seated at desk writing (WSA P93-33/2) (read more)
L-R: Felix Vern Alston, Eunice Alston, Virginia Mayme Alston, Helen Viola Alston (WSA Sub Neg 24221) (read more)
The Union Pacific Depot in Cheyenne is one of the most unique depots on their line. It was completed in 1887 and was gifted by the ... (read more)
The statue commemorating the life of Scottish poet Robert Burns was errected in a small triangular park near the Capitol Building by a group of wealthy ... (read more)
Throughout its 80 year history, the first Wyoming State Penitentiary was plagued by overcrowding. Three additions were added in 1904, 1950 and 1966. The building was ... (read more)
The Wyoming State Penitentiary was built in Rawlins in 1901. The cornerstone had been laid in 1888, but various reasons including weather and funding issues delayed ... (read more)
Between 1978 and 1980, the Wyoming State Capitol Building underwent extensive $7 million renovation project to stabilize and modernize the building. Work included stripping and re-staining ... (read more)
Almost immediately after the completion of the original Capitol Building, work began on the first addition, which added wings to the East and West ends of ... (read more)
A large crowd takes in the diving horse act, one of the traveling entertainment groups to visit the Wyoming State Fair. According to the advertisements, the ... (read more)
The Wyoming National Guard parading down 16th Street (Lincolnway) during the Wyoming Statehood celebration as photographed by C.D. Kirkland.The far building with the tower was the ... (read more)
Joyce Brown, 14, of Fort Bridger, explaining the buying and selection of eggs in a 4-H demonstration competition in the Agricultural Hall at the Wyoming State ... (read more)
County agricultural exhibit products on tables, displayed for the Wyoming State Fair. (WSA P2009-16) (read more)
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