Guide to Records
The Wyoming Historical Society’s own papers are not kept at the Society. They are held by two institutions with the staff, the storage and the catalogues to look after them: the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, and the Wyoming State Archives in Cheyenne. Both publish finding aids online, and both have reading rooms open to the public.
Those same institutions, with the University of Wyoming Libraries, have also digitised a great deal of Wyoming history that has nothing to do with the Society. Everything below is free to search and free to read. None of it lives on this site.
Collections and finding aids
American Heritage CenterWyoming Historical Society recordsThe Society’s own institutional archive: minutes, correspondence, membership records, publications, photographs, maps and audiovisual material from 1873 onward. Around 145 cubic feet in 121 boxes, plus 27 GB of digital files.Browse records
Wyoming State ArchivesWyoming Historical Society CollectionThe State Archives’ guide to its own holdings of Society material, published as a finding aid on WyoCOMET, the Archives’ catalogue of collections.Browse records
Wyoming State ArchivesHistorical Treks: Tracks Across WyomingRecords of the Society’s historical treks, the touring programme that has taken members out across the state for decades. Finding aid on WyoCOMET.Browse records
University of Wyoming LibrariesWyoDigitalThe Libraries’ home for digitised material: historic maps, books, photographs, manuscripts, ephemera, audiovisual material and UWyo yearbooks, drawn from Special Collections and partner institutions.Browse records
American Heritage CenterDigitized Collections in Western History and CultureNamed manuscript collections digitised item by item — personal papers, photograph albums, scrapbooks and artwork — browsable one collection at a time.Browse records- Wyoming State ArchivesHistoric Photograph CollectionA searchable collection of historic Wyoming photographs, from territorial views to twentieth-century street scenes, free to browse and to read at full size.Browse records
Where to go next
Governing Documents
Annals of Wyoming
