McCracken Research Library

Find out what goes on in the Center of the West’s McCracken Research Library and get an insider’s look at the incredible photographs, archives, and manuscripts housed and processed by the library’s staff—who are still making some amazing finds within the collections.

Harold McCracken on the schooner Morrissey, ca. 1928. MS 305 Harold McCracken Photograph Collection, McCracken Research Library. N198#F1253V
March 18, 2015

Photographs: Harold McCracken and the Alaska Arctic Expedition

Past Exhibition Photographs from Harold McCracken’s Expedition to Alaska and the Arctic McCracken Research Library Gallery The dozen photographs in this display…

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January 21, 2015

Discovering Irving R. Bacon in photographs

A small painting, Cody on the Ishawooa Trail by Irving R. Bacon, hangs in the Buffalo Bill Museum at the Center of…

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McCracken Research Library
September 8, 2014

Identifying the Unidentifiable Photographs

It seems like everyone has a stack of old family photographs for which no one can identify the who, what, or when….

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