Past Exhibition: Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archives It may just touch the surface of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s collection of more than a half million […]
McCracken Research Library
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. Yet, intrinsically we know they must be important […]
Treasures from Our West: Charles Belden photograph
Originally featured in Points West in Summer 2007 Charles Belden Photograph: Cowboy reading to his horse Ah, the cowboy life. In this black and white glass plate negative by the […]
Treasures from Our West: three bald eagles
Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2010 Photographer Gabby Barrus’s Three Bald Eagles in Winter Three bald eagles gather on a branch with hints of winter all around—the bare […]
Pinkerton on the case
Long before TV shows CSI or Law & Order, or real agencies like the FBI, NSA, or CIA, there was the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (PNDA). Founded in 1850 by […]
Buffalo Bill Center of the West to receive federal grant for processing archival photographs
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) recently announced nearly $30,000,000 in grants to museums across the nation. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, will […]