Rico Stine Glass Plate Negative Collection

(ca. 1906-1920s)

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Rico H. Stine was an early resident of Worland. He opened a photography studio in 1906 after having spent time working on the Hanover Canal. With his camera, Stine captured many images of Worland and the early days of settlement in the Bighorn Basin. These images include town scenes, pastoral scenes, agricultural scenes, and scenes from the natural world. His photographs not only capture Worland, but areas around Ten Sleep as well.

These glass plates were found in the home of Maxine Stine, wife of the late Daniel Richard Stine who was Rico’s nephew. They were generously donated to the museum by Maxine and her family, but after years of neglect, they had started to show their age. With grant support from Wyoming Humanities, they have been scanned, digitized, cleaned, and securely stored and the digital images are now available to the public.

If you have any information on the individuals, or locations, shown in any of these images, please contact Stefanie Kowalczyk, Washakie Museum Curator at curator@washakiemuseum.org or by calling 307-347-4102. Any requests for copies of these images, or of any other images held by the Washakie Museum, can also be directed to curator@washakiemusuem.org.

Worland

Pastoral & Ag Scenes

Other Locations

Outdoor Scenes

Canals

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Worland

Subjects: Worland, buildings,  businesses, people, saloon, meat, wagons, horses, Bighorn Avenue, Main Street, carriages, wagons, Big Horn Livery, dog, bar, bank, tent, store, railroad, train, Basin Lumber Co., portrait, sports, cars, restaurant, theater, school, band, city council

From original envelope, "a little closer view of Worland (possibly), one building has a false front." This is in fact Worland, before the the move across the river possibly the winter of the move. 2023.1.1

From original envelope, "general view of Worland from a distance, possibly distant flume and railroad, fog in picture" 2023.1.2

Worland, ca. 1906 from Big Horn Ave between 7th and 5th looking West

Big Horn Livery Feed and Stable 2023.1.7

Horses on a hitching rail, possibly in front of the Elk Saloon, Meat Market in background (left) and Grotto Restaurant in background (right). 2023.1.9

Early Worland 2023.1.16

Worland scene with supply wagons and people; bank in background to right 2023.1.34

Bridge over the Bighorn River 2023.1.35

Main Street, Worland, ca 1906 a group of people stand in front of the building next to the Elk Saloon; Bank visible in background on right and Meat Market on left 2023.1.38

Three men standing outside of a building with a bank sign. 2023.1.42

Text on sleeve says, "Early Worland street pictures (1906)." Field in the forefront with buildings along the horizon. 2023.1.43

Has "Old Worland" written on sleeve. Picture of an old Worland street (Main Street, now Bighorn Ave) with several carriages, Elk Saloon to left and Meat Market to right. 2023.1.44

Grading streets in Worland (Big Horn Ave) ca. spring 1906; Hanover Canal Co, Bank, and Lawson's House on left and Meat Market on right. 2023.1.49

Three men standing outside the Hanover Canal Co building; tent houses behind the office building. 2023.1.50

Railroad in Worland 2023.1.51

Photo of the Basin Lumber Co. building and stock yard with one man in a suit and hat standing outside. 2023.1.64

Photo of two men, one young man to the left in overalls and a hat and an older man to the right in a suit and hat with a pocketwatch and cigar, standing outside J.R. May's General Store. 2023.1.65

A man in a suit and hat and a woman in a skirt and blouse stand on the wooden sidewalk in front of May & Danforth Dry Goods Clothing Furnishing Goods & Shoes. 2023.1.66

South block Main Street (now Big Horn Ave), Worland, 1911. 2023.1.67

Seven men and one dog standing outside the Bighorn Saloon 2023.1.70

Four men standing on boardwalk sidewalk in front of the Harness Shop; bottom of glass plate reads 'S.Black 482' 2023.1.71

Six men in suits standing on a concrete sidewalk in front of the First National Bank; store fronts and people in background. 2023.1.72

Eight people, including three children, 2 women, and three men, standing outside the A.G Rupp Anything & Everything store; horse and buggy to the right. 2023.1.73

From Worland railroad looking east toward town; Grotto restaurant on right side, probably Worland Hotel next to it on right. 2023.1.78

interior of a store; two men stand in behind counter to the right 2023.1.85

A group of men stand outside of a clapboard sided structure with three dogs and a racoon; hand written on bottom of image is "Worland Boosters by RH Stine 2-23-08" 2023.1.87

Women's basketball team poses in their bloomers holding a basketball with the handwritten date of 1912 on it; behind them are felt flags which read "Wisconsin" and "Mankato" 2023.1.88

Group of young men and women pose in the Stine Studio (based on backdrops) 2023.1.89

Group of young men and women pose for a photo; woman in center is holding rolls of paper ties with ribbon - possibly diplomas. 2023.1.90

Large crowd of people at a town picnic; handwritten text reads "Washakie Day Sept 27 1913" 2023.1.92

Worland, Wyoming in 1906 2023.1.93

A man and two little girls in a horse drawn buggy; Washakie Trading Co./Rupps Busy Corner in background. 2023.1.95

Two men in hats stand on sidewalk outside of the Hardware store; handwritten text on bottom of image reads "J. Thoreau 481" 2023.1.96

A large crowd of people gathered in town for a picnic; possibly Washakie Day (based on the 45 stars on large flag in photo, gathering would have to be prior to 1908). 2023.1.97

School children in church basement. 2023.1.99

Big Horn Livery 2023.1.102

Five men in suits pose for a picture. 2023.1.103

Street scene - men, women, horses, carriages, and frieght at Rupps Busy Corner; Herald's Pharmacy to the left, Worland Lumber Co and the Big Horn Livery to the right. 2023.1.105

Interior of the Butcher's store; man cuts up meat behind counter, with another man in a chair to the left, while another man in a hat stands with his back to the camera, facing the counter. 2023.1.106

Big Horn Livery; men and women with horses and carriages out front. 2023.1.107

14 men in band uniforms standing with instruments in a semi-circle outside of the Club Bar, with Wyoming Plant & Seed Breeding Co. in background. Handwirtten note in bottom right of plate is illegible.

A large group of men, women, and children gather in town for a picnic - possibly Washakie Day. Electric lines to left. 2023.1.109

North view, Worland, WY March 1907. Water tower, Train tracks, Big Horn Livery visible in photo. Possibly taken from top of railroad depot. 2023.1.110

Worland City Council, 1907 2023.1.113

Five men and one child stand outside the AG Rupp Anything & Everything store in Worland; sign for Dr. EW Foster is visible on staricase outside the building to the right. 2023.1.117

Hopple Restaurant - 5 men sit or stand with raised glasses in a small restaurant, 2023.1.118

25 children - boys and girls - sit and stand around an early school bus with two male drivers; brick school(?) in background with cars. 2023.1.120

Handwritten note on bottom of plate reads "[illegible] Main Street, Worland, WYO 1912" interior of a store - maybe a soda shop. 2023.1.122

"New Buildings Erected Since Fire Nov 10,1907 R.H.Stine Worland WYO" South side of Main Street (Big Horn Ave) featuring Rupp's Busy Corner, a bakery/cafe, and three other store fronts. 2023.1.126

Main Street (Bighorn Ave) decorated with flags and lined with cars - possibly Washakie Day. 2023.1.129

"Washakie Day Sept 27 1913" a crowd of people line a long table along Main Street (Bighorn Ave) at a picnic. 2023.1.130

Students in a classroom with their teacher standing in the back; school is in the church basement. 2023.1.131

A large group of people - men, women, and a few older children - stand together in front of a stage; some are in costume; three men with instruments - trombone, violin, bugle - sit at the very front. 2023.1.135

A crowd of people gather around tables of food for a picnic in town - Club Bar in background; Washakie Day celebration. 2023.1.136

Washakie Day Sept. 27, 1913. A crowd of people gather around tables of food on Main Street (Big Horn Ave); Club Bar and Wyo Plant and Seed Breeding Co. in background to left. 2023.1.145

Worland Garage; four men in coveralls (mechanics?) and one man in a suit and hat pose with four cars parked out front; Lewis and Bates Pluming in background to left. 2023.1.146

A large crowd of people stand on the sidewalk next to the Club Bar looking toward the empty lot - possibly Washakie Day. 2023.1.147

A group of 14 men and one woman sit in front of a over-full wagon load of hay. 2023.1.148

Paper doll diorama showing servicemen of Worland. 2023.1.149

Men posing at a brick yard; house in center background. 2023.1.153

Nine brick workers pose at the brick yard. 2023.1.154

Looking toward Worland from the railroad tracks - Worland Depot at far left and town to the right. There is a handwritten date of 1906 on the emulsion side of the plate. 2023.1.161

Three men - two in suits and one in coveralls and a bowtie - stand with two young children - a boy and a girl - in front of a brick building reading General Merchants May & Danforth; long gang plank style sidewalk leads to front door from horse tie-up. 2023.1.164

Fragment of a glass plate - shows a large group of men and a few women standing and sitting in front of the Worland Hotel with a sign out front that says "New Beds" and "Ready for Buisness" and "Bar Room C.H. Worland, Prop"; large canvas tent next to the hotel to the right. 2023.1.165

Pastoral & Agricultural Scenes

Subjects: agricultural field, trees, road, road signs, buildings, hills, cattle, cowboys, fence, branding, horses, homestead, house, people, produce, wagon, sheep, machines, hay, corn, beets, farmers

From original envelope, "plain landscape view of raw land trying to get farmed, ditch is of raw dirt with frequent washouts, looks like poor crop of corn or weeds; raw, raw, raw ground. terrible to farm" 2023.1.5

From original envelope, "road, with two signs. nothing much of great importance in picture, bad fog on right side - might be the Laird Place" 2023.1.6

Photograph of a framed, hanging picture of men branding cattle. 2023.1.12

Two men on horseback with false front building in background. 2023.1.13

Image of agricultural fields with house in background to right. 2023.1.20

Agricultural land, gravel road, road signs along Laird property (?) 2023.1.24

Man standing behind a barbed wire fence in an agricultural field (of corn? wheat?) with crops shoulder high; small saplings along the fence line. 2023.1.26

Three men in hats standing in a barren plowed field with a clapboard house in the left background. 2023.1.48

Man wearing a hat and glasses standing in a field looking at a notebook in his hands and holding a pencil; plowed ag field in foreground and house, barn, and telegraph poles(?) in background. 2023.1.55

Field with old-fashioned hay bales. 2023.1.56

Field with old-fashioned hay bales. 2023.1.59

Man in a hat standing in a field of corn on the edge of a plowed agricultural field where chickens are pecking at the ground. 2023.1.60

Hay field with a man on a horse drawn plow on the horizon. 2023.1.80

Two men, one with a hat, one without, standing on the edge of a field of corn. 2023.1.82

20 horses eating in a barren field; young girl and colt in the foreground and two men to the right - one on horseback the other standing holding the horse's reins. 2023.1.84

Photo of various agricultural items - tomatoes, pumpkins, eggplants, squashes, corn, wheat, etc.; handwritten note on bottom of images reads "Washakie Day Exhibit Sept. 27 1913" 2023.1.91

Display of agricultural goods with signs from the Wyoming Plant and Seed Breeding Company, Worland, WY- Washakie Day. 2023.1.98

Early German beet farmers - men, women, and children standing in a beet feild; horses and beds of sugar beets in background. 2023.1.100

Display of assorted agricultural products - Washakie Day exhibit? 2023.1.104

Douglas Fuller Sheep Co. A man stands with a sheep dog and a single sheep in front of him; herd of sheep in background. 2023.1.114

Sheep in a clearing; trees, rocks, snow, hills in background. 2023.1.21

Two men pose in hay field with a three-team horse powered threshing machine; a young boy stands next to cut hay to the right; horses on horizon. 2023.1.123

Very faint handwriting at bottom on plate reads "Smith-Ch??? Range" - A herd of sheep in a grassy clearing; trees and hills in background. 2023.1.124

Handwritten note on bottom of plate reads "B???ards Dipping Pen" - a large herd of sheep in a wooden pen being funneled through a chute where men are working the dipping line. 2023.1.125

Two men stand on and behind an early coal powered machine to harvest wheat; a large farmhouse in background, electric lines, and horses. 2023.1.127

Display of various turnips, beets, and cabbage with scales - Washakie Day exhibit. 2023.1.134

Field with piles of cut hay; trees and houses on horizon. 2023.1.137

Large flock of sheep on a hillside; 3 men, one horse, a sheep wagon with a team of horses, and a dog in background; same flock of sheep as 2023.1.152. 2023.1.151

Large flock of sheep; patchy snow still on ground; man standing on carriage with a team of horses, two men stand behind him next to a sheep wagon in the background; same flock of sheep as 2023.1.151. 2023.1.152

Display of various hay and alfalfa bundles with a ruler for scale - Washakie Day? 2023.1.555

Other Locations

Subjects: Gebo, mines, slag, Big Horn Basin, trees, hills, buildings, horses, cow, wagon, prairie, house,  fence, people, cabin, homestead, machine, train, railroad, tent, field, barn, buggy, street, badlands, river, ferry, food, water, dog, hay

slag pile at the Gebo Mine; man standing on top. 2023.1.21

Big Horn Basin, near Worland. 2023.1.22

Man with horse and wagon on two track across sagebrush prairie with second man and horse to the right; Worland in background? 2023.1.23

House and two out buildings on a cleared plot of land. 2023.1.28

Men at Gebo mines. 2023.1.29

Gebo Mines 2023.1.30

A group of ten men standing in front of an unfinished storefront; house in the background to the left same as 2023.1.33. 2023.1.32

A group of nine men standing in front of an unfinished store front; house in the background to right same as 2023.1.32. 2023.1.33

Homestead cabin in a grove of trees with a man, horse, and cart in front of it all surrounded by a fence line; cleared land in foreground. 2023.1.36

Photo of two women and two men sitting in log cabin. There is a window at center. 2023.1.45

Photo sleeve reads "railroad carrying track" and the image is of a railroad track and workers. 2023.1.46

Two men with horses standing in front of canvas tents with a little girl next to a cow; there is cursive writing on the left side of the glass plate. 2023.1.47

Clapboard siding house with front and back porches, outbuildings, an outhouse, and a barn next to a small field of corn. 2023.1.58

Men using a machine to lay railroad ties with a woman standing to the far right; houses in background. 2023.1.61

Two men in suits and hats sitting in a buggy being pulled by a team of two horses wearing decorative tack; trees and houses in background. 2023.1.69

family - three women, two children, and two men - sitting on porch of a brick, hipped roof brick house; outbuildings and clothes line in background to right; "Fred Bragg No Wood" written on bottom left of plate; a wider view of the scene in 2023.1.132. 2023.1.83

"Driscols' 4th" - a large group of men, women, and children gather outside of a log cabin for the 4th of July; badlands and fenceline in background - current day Orchard Ranch, south of Mahogany Butte. 2023.1.86

Big Horn River ferry 2023.1.94

"Picnic at Driscols' near Ten Sleep, WY July 4, 1912" - a large group of men, women, and children sit along a fence-line under trees having a picnic - current day Orchard Ranch, south of Mahogany Butte. 2023.1.101

Six men sit outside a log cabin with a single window and a sod roof; one man holds the reins of a horse; badlands in background. 2023.1.111

Two women and two men stand on the elevated porch outside of an unmarked building with a false front; man stands on wagon holding the reins of a team of horses; white house in background at base of mountains - current day Orchard Ranch, south of Mahogany Butte. 2023.1.115

A group of twelve men and one dog pose for a picture inside a frame structure covered with canvas. 2023.1.119

Five men with teams of horses possibly grading a roadway; snowy hills in background. 2023.1.128

"Fred Bragg No Wood" family - 2 men, 3 women, and 2 children sit on the porch steps of a large hipped roof brick house with outbuildings and clothesline in background; a closer view of the scene in 2023.1.83. 2023.1.132

Three men stand alongside a road in a berry patch; in backgound is log cabin from image 2023.1.86 - current day Orchard Ranch, south of Mahogany Butte. 2023.1.133

Large barn and corral, pole barn with carriage and full sacks, house at foot of butte - image taken near Mahogany Butte. 2023.1.144

Homestead - house, garden, outbuildings - Current day Circle J in Ten Sleep Canyon. 2023.1.156

Four men standing with three wagons full of hay in a line in front of a building with open sliding doors; smoke stack in background same as 2023.1.158

Three houses with barns and/or outbuildings, two sod roofed log cabins, one large building with a raised front porch (same building as 2023.1.115); dry hills in background and three people stand in front of a gate in the center of the image - current day Orchard Ranch, south of Mahogany Butte. 2023.1.159

Image of a young child - chair, flowers, frames on wall. 2023.1.159

Outdoor Scenes

Subjects: Meadowlark, horses, trees, Bighorn River, dog, woods, people, badlands, hunting, elk, lake, rocks, river, mountain, waterfall, canyon, butte, road, water, bridge, fish, buildings, wagon, homestead

From original envelope, "several people and saddle horse, out in some timber" photo is of Meadowlark, before it was called Meadowlark, popular camping area and trout fishing location. 2023.1.3

A man standing on the edge of a wide river (Bighorn?); emulsion side of plate badly corroded so image will not scan well. 2023.1.17

A man on horseback wearing winter coat and hat in a small clearing in the woods; dog in background to left. 2023.1.27

Cowboy on a horse in a small clearing in the trees. 2023.1.37

A man and a woman holding a rifle stand on top of the badlands; rear of horse in left foreground. 2023.1.39

A hunting party? Two women, one holding a pistol and the other holding the end of a rifle, sitting on stumps, with a man standing to their left pointing a pistol at the photographer; same people as 2023.1.41. 2023.1.40

A hunting party? Two women stand on either side of a young man with their arms around each others shoulders in a clearing; woman to right has a holster on her hip; same people as 2023.1.40. 2023.1.41

Elk in a clearing with trees in the background. 2023.1.68

Nature scene - lake, rocks, trees. 2023.1.74

Nature scene - river, rocks, trees, mountain. 2023.1.76

Nature scene - rocks, waterfall, trees; man stands on fallen tree across waterfall to left. 2023.1.77

nature scene - water, River, rocks, trees - upper Ten Sleep Canyon near junction of old road and highway. 2023.1.79

A man and woman sitting on top of a butte. 2023.1.81

Mohagony Butte Canyon - butte, river, dirt road. 2023.1.112

Nature scene - creek and hills, small footbridge crossing a creek - Mahogany Butte Canyon, Nowood River. 2023.1.116

nature scene - rocky stream; trees, deadfall 2023.1.138

nature scene - waterfall 2023.1.139

Twin Lakes, Ten Sleep (current day East Ten Sleep Lake) - nature scene with large lake, trees, mountains. 2023.1.140

Twin Lakes, Ten Sleep (current day East Ten Sleep Lake) - man standing in a canoe on a large lake; mountins, trees, rocks, 2023.1.141

Twin Lakes, Ten Sleep (current day East Ten Sleep Lake) - nature scene with large lake, trees, mountains. 2023.1.142

Ten Sleep Canyon, Big Horns; rushing river, buttes, trees. 2023.1.143

Young boy on horseback holding a stick of fish and a boot in his hands; log cabin and fenced in yard behind him - current day Orchard Ranch, south of Mahogany Butte. 2023.1.150

Ten Sleep Falls (West Ten Sleep Falls) - waterfall, rocks, trees, pond. 2023.1.160

Ten Sleep Creek - rocky creek, trees. 2023.1.162

Ten Sleep Creek - rocky creek, trees, downfall across creek. 2023.1.163

Ten Sleep Creek - water, rocks, trees. 2023.1.167

Ten Sleep (pond? word on original envelope is illegible). 2023.1.168

Canals

Subjects: canal, irrigation, Worland, horses, head gate, tents, buildings, river, Bighorn River, people

Image of a canal/river with a man in the foreground very similar to 2023.1.15 which is identified as the Hanover Canal, near tie-down, southeast of Worland. 2023.1.8

Canal flumes outside Worland (Hanover canal?); identical to 2023.1.11. 2023.1.10

Team of horses digging canal; men and vehicles in background. 2023.1.14

Hanover Canal, near tie-down, southast of Worland; very similar to image 2023.1.8. 2023.1.15

Flume headgate; water rushing out of gate and into canal/river with a person in a hat to the right. 2023.1.18

Headgate construction; L.E. (Loren Edward) Laird in the middle. 2023.1.19

Irrigation canal; man stands on a board over the canal in the background, while on the horizon another man works the field with a team of horses. 2023.1.25

Canal flume - possibly the Hanover Canal? 2023.1.31

Two men standing on the Hanover canal flume; two white tents below in sagebrush along river. 2023.1.52

Canal alongside the Big Horn River; house in background to right. 2023.1.53

men working on the canal flume over the Big Horn River. 2023.1.54

irrigation canal outside Worland. 2023.1.57

Irrigation canal in foreground with agricultural fields, a road, and Worland in the background; date handwritten on left side of glass plate is 1926. 2023.1.62

A man standing on the head-gate of the canal. 2023.1.63

Hanover canal 2023.1.75