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Eaton's ranch, Wolf, Wyoming – Historic Reproduction

Eaton's ranch, Wolf, Wyoming — historic photograph
Eaton's ranch, Wolf, Wyoming. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Eaton's ranch, Wolf, Wyoming comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Eaton's ranch, Wolf, Wyoming

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Eaton's ranch sat near Wolf, a small community in northern Wyoming's Big Horn County, where ranching and homesteading shaped daily life in the early twentieth century. Pictures of working ranches from this region are valuable because they show the buildings, fences and outbuildings that a family depended on, often with little else recorded about them. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year is uncertain, but the scene reflects the open-range and homestead era that defined much of the state's rural settlement. Because the photograph is a single print, its details of layout and construction are the main evidence we have of how the place looked.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,194 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136259

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