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Digital Collections: Cody Local History

The McCracken Research Library’s digital collections relating to the history of Cody, Wyoming:

Digital Collections are works in progress. Please see the appropriate finding guides for more complete collection content.

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Local History Collections
2,500 photographs taken by Wyoming photographer Charles Belden, documenting ranch life in Northwest Wyoming during the first half of the twentieth century. Project was funded by a generous grant from the Carol McMurry Library Donor Advised Endowment Fund, through the Wyoming Community Foundation. Thank you!
MS 003 Charles Belden Photograph Collection
Cody, Wyoming was founded in 1895. Long associated with William F. Cody and the East Entrance to YellowstonePark, Cody has had a rich and varied past. Series within the collection have been set up on the history of the City of Cody and Park County, which include Cody Rod and Gun Club papers; W. F. Cody; Wyoming and Western U.S. history; local persons and families such as Elmore Jones and the Hargreave family; general city of Cody and local scenery and wildlife photographs (many photos still unidentified); and Cody newspapers that include the Heart Mountain Sentinelof the World War II Japanese-American internment camp. Total volume of the collection is 7 c.f. of papers and photographs plus the newspapers.
MS 005 Cody
Local History Collection
A selection of letters, correspondence, published material, ephemera, objects and photographs surrounding the life of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Supported by OCLC, Mrs. Lynne Cheney, and a grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, a program of the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources. Thank you! This project is also made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. http://imls.gov
MS 006 William
F. Cody
Collection
A selection from the more than 300,000 images found in the McCracken Archives. Jack Richard was a journalist and professional photographer in Cody, Wyoming. Subjects include Yellowstone National Park, industries, portraits, ranching, and aerial photography. This project was made possible in part by a Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The project was also funded in part by a generous grant from the Carol McMurry Library Donor Advised Endowment Fund, through the Wyoming Community Foundation. Thank you!
MS 089 Jack Richard Photograph
Collection
Postcards, Advertisements, Book Pictorial Souvenir of Cody, WY.
MS 112
Barbara Smith Collection
MS 184 Early Cody Bands
MS 184
Early
Cody Bands
MS 197 Cody Road Postcards
MS 197 Cody
Road
Postcards
Original Buffalo Bill Museum Photographs
MS 228 Original Buffalo Bill
Museum Photographs
28 Photographic Negatives (Nitrate) and 2 photographic prints (possibly by Hiscock)
MS 402
Big Horn Basin Collection
Native photographer Ken Blackbird observes that photographers are "the image keepers of history." Ken Blackbird’s lineage is Gros Ventre/Assiniboine, and he is an enrolled member of the Fort Belknap Indian Community of Montana. A photojournalist and freelance photographer in a career that spans more than 30 years, his work on modern life in Cuba was recommended for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. To date, he remains the only American Indian photographer nominated for this prestigious award. A graduate of the University of Montana’s School of Journalism, he has lived in the Cody, Wyoming, area for many years. Out of many thousand images, Blackbird has chosen a select few for the exhibition, representing the richness of Indian culture, the drama and timing of rodeo, and the unique qualities of western landscapes. Though his photographs recall a rich tradition, the vitality of Native American life today is his subject, conveyed poignantly and passionately through his lens.
MS 426 Ken Blackbird Photograph
Collection
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