University of Wyoming
Jack Costin was an early resident of Laramie, Wyoming. He began working in the newspaper business in Laramie in 1909 with the Laramie Republican. Costin then switched over to the Boomerang for a stint before returning to the Republican. In the 1950s, Costin worked for the Laramie Printing Company.
Collection contains a report of the stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad; photographs of the cattle industry, train engines and wrecks, and other Wyoming subjects; various artifacts; and issues of Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine, Sports Afield, The Frontier Monthly, Outdoor Life, The Union Pacific Magazine, Hunter Trader Trapper, The Cosmopolitan, The Century Magazine, and Pearson’s Advertiser.
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Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
This material was received from Jack Costin in October 1953.
There are no known other archival collections created by Jack Costin at the date of processing.
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