Charles (Chuck) Morrison Collection

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Title

Charles (Chuck) Morrison Collection

Description

This collection includes records from the Cole Creek Wreck including passenger lists, obituaries, and correspondence; records of New York Oil Company in Casper; District Court correspondence and files; Personal Correspondence between Wyoming State Representative Chuck Morrison and other Wyoming Representatives; Chuck Morrison writing to his family and friends, etc ; letters Chuck Morrison received and sent to various ski and outdoor clubs; ski and wildlife magazines; Chuck Morrison's historical stories and articles he wrote while working for the Casper Star-Tribune newspaper; photographs taken and collected by Chuck Morrison of Wyoming's historical sites, churches, neighborhoods, cemeteries, local flora and fauna, etc. ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s; personal photographs of Chuck Morrison's family, property, etc.; boxes of negatives related to the rest of the photos and photo rolls; Chuck Morrison's WWII credentials, awards, and photographs from his time in WWII; a special collection of letters of correspondence between Chuck Morrison, his mother, his father, and his friends, written during his time in World War II; and a special items box containing some of the plaques and awards Chuck Morrison earned over the years for writing, sportsmanship, photography, etc.

Rights

The reformatted text and images in the Charles (Chuck) Morrison Collection are for personal, not-for profit use of students, researchers, and the public. Any use must provide attribution to the Casper College Archives and Special Collections (Western History Center). While being the property of Casper College, all text, images and other materials are subject to applicable copyright laws. Commercial use, electronic reproduction, or print publication ot text, images, or other materials is strictly prohibited without written permission. All permissions to publish must be obtained from the rights holder and are not the repository's responsibility for securing. The rights holder may or may not be the repository. Users also agree to hold the repository harmless from legal claims arising from use of material held by the institution and made accessible in this digital repository.

Identifier

NCA 01.v.1998.01

Collection Items

Second Street Folder
This file from the Charles (Chuck) Morrison Collection contains 5 photographs of Second Street in Casper, WY from approximately the 1920s through the 1950s.

Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate Folder
This file contains photographs of Charles Starkweather, Carol Fugate, and the officers involved in their apprehension in Wyoming. Many of the photographs in this file appeared in the Casper Tribune-Herald, which is where their descriptions below…

Casper Army Airbase Folder
This file contains photographs from the Casper Army Airbase.

Buildings and Businesses Folder
A folder of photographs of businesses and buildings in Casper, Wyoming.

Workers in First Refinery Folder
Dr. Fred Salathe, Charlie?, John Duncan, L.W. Bailey, Oscar Hiestand

East Second Street (Yellowstone Hy) Folder
Post Card photograph of East Second Street in Casper, WY.

Railroads and Cole Creek Wreck Folder
This folder contains photographs and text related to the Bonneville train station, conductors R.C. Calvin and Horace Freeley Canhs, a 1923 C. B. & Q. steam locomotive no. 4960 engine built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, train lines in Wyoming, copies…

Wyoming National Guard Armory Building Folder
This folder consists of 45 digitized images of the Wyoming National Guard Armory building as it once stood in Casper, WY. Researchers will also find newspaper clipplings and drafts of letters to the editor written by Chuck Morrison including the…

Casper's First Fire Department
This digital record contains reproductions of a photograph of firefighters posing for a photograph behind their wagons in front of the Demorest House in Casper, WY in 1892, and one of Harvard Wolfe engineer and Tom Patton, fireman cleaning a…
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