Wyoming Women

Wyoming Women: Life Within the Family. The photographs illustrate the many activities of women as workers - washing clothes, chopping wood, and preparing meals. Wyoming Women are also shown fulfilling different roles in the family.

Wyoming Women: Life Beyond the Family. Women enjoyed camping, fishing, horseback riding and gardening. Women were involved in community plays, in politics, they joined clubs, attended classes and enjoyed life with their classmates. 

Size: 65 framed items (4 crates).

Mary Piper, photo taken near Laramie, Wyoming. American Heritage Center collections.

Brochure (PDF)

• Images of Black Wyoming
• The Bozeman Trail Diaries of Robert Dunlap Clarke
• Japanese-American Girl Scouts at Heart Mountain Relocation Camp, 1942-1945
• Home Front on the Frontier: Wyoming During World War I
• Landscape of the Range
• Thomas Kennet-Were
• J. K. Moore
• Photographers of Wyoming
• More Pronghorn Than People
• In Pursuit of Equality
• Rural Images
• Hell on Wheels: Union Pacific Railroad Towns in Wyoming
• University of Wyoming
• The Virginian 1902-2002 
• Washakie: Through the Lens of Time
• Wyoming Stock Growers Association
• Wyoming Water

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