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Thayer, Honorable John Milton of Wyoming & Nebraska. Brig Gen & major ...

A man sitting in a chair with a cane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Indian battle and massacre near Fort Philip Kearney, Dacotah [sic]...

Large group of Native Americans on horseback surrounding United States Army soldiers. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 11, no. 534 (1867 March 23), p. 180.

The Massacre of United States troops by the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1867 Jan. 19, p. 281.

Castle Rock - Green River Valley (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows a prominent rock formation rising above the surrounding landscape in the Green River Valley, a man stands on riverbank in the foreground. Illus. in: Sun pictures of Rocky Mountain scenery, wit... More

The Devil's Slide, Cinnabar Mountain - stereocsopic card

No. 424. Part of series: Scenery of the Yellowstone, 1871. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixtur... More

[Columns of volcanic breccia near Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Pa...

No. 237. A black and white photo of a canyon with trees. A black and white photo of a canyon. Public domain postcard scan.

[Valley of the Yellowstone] / W.H. Jackson, photo.

No. 200. Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Butte near Green River City [Wyo.] / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing a butte. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which ... More

[Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming]

No. 234.

The massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming / drawn by T. de ...

Miners of the Union Pacific Railroad Company shooting at crowd of fleeing Chinese miners working for the Union Pacific. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1885 Sept. 26, p. 637.

Index Peak, Wy, William Henry Jackson photograph

"W.H. Jackson Phot. Co., Denver." Copyright deposit no. 44065. Listed in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. [1656?] Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Mammoth Hot Springs, Pulpit Terraces, mammoth plate negative

"W.H. Jackson Phot. Co., Denver." This image along with LOT 12690, no. 19 possibly forms left and right sections of a panorama, center section(s) not in collection. Copyright deposit no. 44077. On mount "139". ... More

Cloud Peak, Wy. - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Mortar Geyser - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

No. 120. Part of series: Wonders of the Yellowstone, as Mirrored in the Camera, Views of the National Park.

[Carnegie public library, Cheyenne, Wyoming]

Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Park, California, 19th century steres...

H12815 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5012. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., U.S.A.

Rock formations in foreground, hotel in background. H47801 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.R. Whiting. No. 1302.

The "strenuous" life of the cowboy - breaking a bucking bronco, Wyomin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Watching the sudden eruption of a geyser in famous Yellowstone Park

H88867 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2189. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wild elk at Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30598. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019789. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Yellowstone Park, Fossil Forests

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The New Grand Canyon Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, reached by the...

Copyright by Gifford for Northern Pacific Ry. Co. No. 3688. National Photo Company Collection.

Yellowstone National Park., Yellowstone National Park

Public domain photograph of Yellowstone National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

USS WYOMING. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Launch of WYOMING, 5/25/11 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of ship, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Old stagecoach, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming]

J179281 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3674. Public domain photograph of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

TARGET PRACTICE. U.S.S. WYOMING'S BOW

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

OSBORNE, JOHN EUGENE. GOVERNOR OF WYOMING, 1893-1895; REP., 1897-1899;...

A man in a suit and top hat walking down a sidewalk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

MAINE Monument comm[i]tee on WYOMING

Photo shows the battleship Wyoming which led the fleet during the unveiling ceremonies for the memorial to the battleship Maine, which had exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War... More

J.B. Kendrick - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows John B. Kendrick (1857-1933) a Senator from Wyoming. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Castle Cove and hotel party

Photograph showing a group of tourists observing geyser activity at Castle Geyser in Yellowstone National Park. J220905 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Haynes, St. Paul. No. 16063.

[Wyo. - Yellowstone Nat. Park - auto camped at mammoth (public auto ca...

Photo copyrighted by Haynes. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Snowlodge, Tourist Cabin Type P No. 239-240, 400' southwest of Snowlod...

Survey number: HABS WY-126-N National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 82001839

Clay Spur Bentonite Plant & Camp, Cooler, Clay Spur Siding on Burlingt...

Significance: The Clay Spur Bentonite Plant and Camp is associated with the early 20th century bentonite mining industry in Wyoming and the United States. The Clay Spur Bentonite District was the center of the... More

Geraldine Lucas Homestead, Pump House, West bank Cottonwood Creek, 2.5...

Survey number: HABS WY-113-I Building/structure dates: 1946 Initial Construction

Superior Coal Mines, Wood Foundation, Horse Thief Canyon, South Superi...

Significance: Structure H is a wood foundation from a demolished wood frame building. The foundation is located on a terrace along the south edge of Horse Thief Draw approximately 1 mile northwest of Superior.... More

Fort Laramie, N.C.O. Quarters, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY - Fort ...

Survey number: HABS WY-16 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sheep wagon. Natrona County, Wyoming

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

FHWA Creek Bridge, Spanning FHWA Creek at Northeast Entrance Road, Lak...

Significance: FHWA Creek Bridge typifies the early design philosophy of the National Park Service, which was to use indigenous materials to harmonize manmade features with their natural surroundings. This phil... More

Sheep on ranch in Converse County, Wyoming

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Part of Cambria, Wyoming. Ghost mining town

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wyoming University. Laramie, Wyoming

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rock formation. Laramie County, Wyoming

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Snow shed over Union Pacific tracks. Carbon County, Wyoming

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ranch buildings. Laramie, Wyoming

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat. Office of War Informat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Gate entrance to Bar ED dude ranch. Buford, Wyoming

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of the Lamar Ranger Station and Yellowstone Institute's Buffalo R...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Lamar Buffalo Ranch was created to preserve one of the last free-roaming American bison or buffalo herds in the United States. The... More

Sublet Mine No. 6, Housing Unit No. 4, East side of Willow Creek Valle...

Survey number: HAER WY-54-J Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clay Spur Bentonite, Garage-Storage, Clay Spur Siding on Burlington No...

Significance: The Clay Spur Bentonite Plant and Camp is associated with the early 20th century bentonite mining industry in Wyoming and the United States. The Clay Spur Bentonite District was the center of the... More

Wyoming Air National Guard Base, Cheyenne Airport, Cheyenne, Laramie C...

Significance: These buildings are an integral part of the Cheyenne Modification Center, a World War II era defense plant which modified military aircraft for combat. They are also associated with the Cheyenne ... More

Superior Coal Mines, Valve Box, Horse Thief Canyon, South Superior, Sw...

Significance: Structure EE is a valve box. The valve box is located on the top of a broad, flat, west to east trending ridge which serves as the top south edge of Horse Thief Draw. The valve box is located ap... More

Straight-on view of the Aladdin mining tipple, which carried coal down...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Hayne's Store, Storage Building, 5' West of Hayne's Store & 50' Southw...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A wintry look at Firehole Falls in Yellowstone National Park in the we...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

American bison, or buffaloes, cross the frozen Madison River in snowy ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The old cavalry barracks at Fort Laramie National Historic Site in Gos...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1849, the U.S. Army took over Fort Laramie, established as Fort John, a private fur-trading fort in 1834, in order to protect westw... More

Rodeo action at the Cheyenne Frontier Days, a western celebration and ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The Mint Bar, a downtown landmark built in 1907 in Sheridan, Wyoming, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Rodeo action at the Cheyenne Frontier Days, a western celebration and ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Rodeo action at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in Wyoming's ca...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Western celebration that is viewed by an estimated 200,000 onlookers and throngs of tourists each year in a city of 62,000 people ... More

Indian tipis outside Fort Laramie National Historic Site in Goshen Cou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 1849, the U.S. Army took over Fort Laramie, established as Fort John, a private fur-trading fort in 1834, in order to protect westw... More

The humble Pelican Club Cabin at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorad...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First photographed in 1919, the building was originally built and used by the U.S. Forest Service, likely as an out station where rang... More

The First United Methodist Church (originally First Methodist Church),...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It replaced a little white church that, to facilitate construction of the new building, was dragged into the middle of the street, whe... More

J.C. Penny mother store, Kemmerer, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

S.H. Knight's Tyrannosaurus sculture stands near the entrance to the G...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Bronze statue of rancher and Wyoming state representative James C. Hag...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Hageman represented the third generation of a family that supported agriculture in that western state. Artist: name not given. Credit ... More

No need just yet for this snow fence, near Encampment in Carbon County...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Colorful Ferris wheel at dusk at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A reconstructed stockade wall at Fort Phil Kearny, in what is now John...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The fort, along the Bozeman emigrant trail through the northern Rocky Mountains, was an outpost of the U.S. Army in the late 1860s. Na... More

Portion of one of the original old cabins moved to this location at th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Signs at the tourist-attraction town of Buford in rural Albany County,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This desolate place is an attraction that draws visitors off passing Interstate Highway 80 because of the town's official population: ... More

In his studio and art gallery in tiny Hulett, Wyoming, celebrated west...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Best known for his paintings of western Americana, cowboys, and American Indian life and culture, Coronato is commissioned to produce ... More

The cowhands' (as opposed to the guests') work barn at the A Bar A gue...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

What would appear to be a former church, now (in 2016) possibly a resi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Pastoral scene beside an irrigation ditch at Big Creek cattle ranch on...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

View of the Killpecker Sand Dunes in Wyoming's Red Desert, north of Ro...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Koda the blue heeler Australian cattle dog, is a constant companion to...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A cowgirl, one of several wranglers who herd horses in the daily "jing...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A recently born lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding oper...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Low mountains rise in the distance at the A Bar A guest ranch, near Ri...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Two deer turn tail, literally, in deep snow in remote Carbon County, W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Chest-high boots called waders hang from the A Bar A ranch's fish shac...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Delicate wildflowers in a harsh and indelicate place; the rocks near t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ranch manager Mark Dunning oversees a roundup at the Big Creek cattle ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Rain and fog in the Teton Range, above Jackson Hole; people in these p...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calv...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Sconce in the dining room at the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A portion of South Pass (two nearby passes, really) that formed the mo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was no stroll through a valley for the travelers. The passes themselves lie more than 7,000 feet above sea level in what is now F... More

In this image, you can see two reasons why the trail that runs atop a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over the years, the Masonic Lodge of Green River held frequent meetings atop the butte. A ladder to the top was installed to facilitat... More

A ewe and her newborn lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, based litera...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Wintry scene in Carbon County, Wyoming, near the Colorado border

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

"Fanning a Twister," by Peter Fillerup; one of several cowboy-themed s...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Owner John Kukral casts for trout in the North Platte River at Park Ra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular portion of the Rocky Mountains. This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson Coun... More

Cockeyed cabin in Gore Pass, east of Topanas in Grant County, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Hundreds of elk gather for winter forage and safety at the U.S. Fish &...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The refuge was established to provide winter habitat for the Jackson Elk Herd. Elk leave the lower elevations in April and May, follow... More

It's spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A freight train churns above the Wind River in the canyon of the same ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Old Faithful Visitor Center, 300 feet southwest of Old Faithful Geyser...

Survey number: HABS WY-157