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This collection of booklets relates to tourism in Yellowstone and dude ranches in Wyoming These booklets are representations of tourism to Wyoming in the early 20th century. They contain pictures and descriptions of Yellowstone and dude ranches.

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The John Rumm collection is made up of photographs of Yellowstone by Hiscock and Lucier. John Rumm was the curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West between the years of 2008-2014.

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Typed letters & stories by Paul Purvis containing history of the Cody area and memories of local personalities.

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The collection contains a narrative poem, photographic album, and seperate photographs. Edward Traynor's grandfather, Fredrick Hamilton Redington, took the photographs in the album from 1905 on his annual summer trip to Yellowstone. The family made a summer trip out to Yellowstone yearly, because Redington's first wife, Phoebe Hargraves, was from Cody.

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The collection includes a photo album from a 1937 road trip from Toledo, Ohio to Yellowstone Park. Some interesting photos in the album include Mount Rushmore in its final stages of construction, dude ranches, and Yellowstone Park. This documents what one would have seen on a cross country road trip during 1937.

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The Polly Orbin collection includes a postcard, photos, maps, booklets, and a souvenir book from trips to Yellowstone and Cody. There are also postcards from a trip to Buffalo Bill's Grave and Memorial Museum in Colorado and a program from the Buffalo Bill birthday celebration as a fundraiser for the Sheridan Inn.

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The collection includes a family scrapbook from a 1938 trip from Kansas City, Missouri to Yellowstone, the Tetons, and Salt Lake City. The collection also contains a photograph of an unknown Apache man.

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Photographs from the groundbreaking of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art (now Whitney Museum), dedication and wreath laying of the Cody statue, William Cody Bradford hand shaking, carved wooden souviner album from Yellowstone Park with blank pages.

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This collection contains 17 postcards of nature photographs of Yellowstone National Park, Cody Road to Yellowstone, Shoshone Dam, Wind River Canyon, Thermopolis & Boysen Dam. He took these photos while employed for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.

Abstract Collection contains an advertisement for the Colonial Inn in Cody, adult ticket combination #1524 for the Buffalo Bill Museum and the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, tourists' pamphlet from the Cody Lions Club which includes milage to points of interest en route to Yellowstone, Cody Enterprise publication titled "Welcome to Buffalo Bill's Hometown" which includes maps and information for visitors to Cody, a photocopy of handwitten notes on Colonial Inn letterhead written by Beth's mother...