University of Wyoming
Louis O. Williams worked as Chief Curator of Botany at the Chicago Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He began is career in botany in Wyoming. Williams wrote The Useful Plants of Central America in 1981.
Collection contains photographs of Wyoming landscapes, people, sheep camps, and ranches; a manuscript written by Otho Williams, Louis Williams’ grandfather; a pair of dental forceps used by Otho Williams in the early twentieth century in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; an arrowhead flaker carved from an antler; correspondence; an in memoriam card for Frank Richard Williams; a 50 cent merchandise token; and a copy of a story titled Hunting Big Game in Jackson Hole, Wyoming by James Sullivan.
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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 Louis O. Williams between December 1964 and August 1979.
There are no known other archival collections created by Louis O. Williams at the date of processing.
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