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Digital Collections: Wyoming Photographers

The McCracken Research Library’s digital collections relating to photographers from Wyoming:

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Browse All Wyoming Photographer 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

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

MS243 James Bama Collection James Bama is a prominent illustrator and artist of the American West. He was one of the best known magazine and book illustrators in the country, with many Doc Savage book covers as examples of his work. After nearly 22 years as an illustrator in New York City, Bama moved to Wyoming in 1968. This collection comes from his studio and includes correspondence, research articles, photographs, negatives, gallery catalogs, magazines and books containing Bama’s illustrations.

MS 243 James Bama 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

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

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