Family papers, 1887-1945.

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Family papers, 1887-1945.

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Collection contains miscellaneous materials relating to Dobbins' family, including biographical material and 2 U.S. Army service records for Asa C. Dobbins (1945); 2 1941 letters relating to Asa C. Dobbins' service with the weather bureaus; and 2 typescript manuscripts by Gertrude Dobbins on the history of the Cheyenne weather bureau (1945). Collection also includes a typescript copy of an interview with Gertrude Dobbins (1945); 4 newspaper clippings (1887, 1933); 2 1933 letters from University of Wyoming professor and historian Grace Raymond Hebard to Gertrude Dobbins on the gift of a clock that was at the Cheyenne weather bureau; an 1899 autograph of D.C. Nowlin, a Wyoming State Game Warden; and a 1933 photograph of William O. Owen, an engineer and mountaineer from Jackson, Wyoming.

17 items.

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7347036

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Dobbins, Asa C., 1849-1883.

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United States. Weather Bureau

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From 1947 until 1970, the official observations of weather in Boulder were made under the direction of the Boulder fire chief, at the central fire station. The Boulder Fire Department also maintained a weather station at the South Side Fire Station starting in July 1958. Prior to 1947, observations were made from the homes of volunteering citizens of Boulder. (Cf. station history in BHS 351 b1 f6.). From the description of Voluntary oberserver's meteorological record, Boulder, Colo. ...

Owen, William O., 1859-1947.

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Nowlin, D. C. (Daniel Crispin), 1857-1925

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Dobbins, Gertrude Wyoming, 1873-

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Dobbins (b. 1873) was the daughter of Asa C. and Emma James Eames Dobbins. Asa C. Dobbins (1849-1883) served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1870-1883 and worked at the army's weather bureau in Cheyenne, Wyoming from 1870-1873. Starting in 1891 the U.S. Department of Agriculture operated the bureaus and eventually they became the U.S. Weather Bureaus. From the description of Family papers, 1887-1945. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 32993794 ...

Hebard, Grace Raymond, 1861-1936

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Grace Raymond Hebard taught and served as librarian at the University of Wyoming. From the description of Marking the old Oregon trail in Wyoming, ca. 1915. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 31912428 Collection materials relating to Hebard's career as University of Wyoming professor, librarian, and western historian. Collection includes subject files containing correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts and printed materials concerning places an...