AHC 2004 Photograph of the Month


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2004 Photographs of the Month

November 2004
Governor Frank Emerson and Wyoming Airways owner Richard Leferink (in plane) pose with one of the company's first fleet planes, 1926.

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Other 2004 Photographs
October	Teacher Training School's Potato Club, University of Wyoming, 1916.
September	No image available.
August	No image available.
July	Laramie group of young people enjoying homemade ice cream, ca. 1895.
June	A Casper photographer, Thomas G. Carrigen, photographed this unknown preacher as he spoke to a summer gathering at Independence Rock in 1930.
May	No image available.
April	Despite the fact that over two-million out-of-state tourists and truckers drive past it each year on Interstate 80, Fort Fred Steele is still one of the least known forts in the West. This desert outpost was established in 1868 and occupied until 1886 by soldiers who were sent by the U.S. Government to guard the railroad against Indian attack.
March	Regarded as one of the wonders of the age, a 16-mile tramway ran from the Ferris-Haggarty Mine carrying copper across the Continental Divide at an elevation of 10,700 feet to a smelter in the town of Encampment, Wyoming.
February	Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rasmusson on the steps of their Rawlins furniture store, about 1886. The store also offered undertaker services. During the nineteenth century, furniture dealers commonly sold coffins and acted as undertakers, in addition to supplying interior furnishing.
January	Wyoming Cyclery located at 1711 Pioneer Avenue in Cheyenne offered customers the latest models of Excelsior Auto Cycles, the first American-built motorcycle. Photo dated 1914.