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Hans Kleiber papers and artwork, 1908-1964

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Kleiber, Hans, 1887-1967
Title
Hans Kleiber papers and artwork
Dates
1908-1964 (inclusive)
Quantity
3.00 cubic ft. (4 containers)
Collection Number
01172
Summary
Etchings, manuscripts, and photographs of a Wyoming artist best known for depictions of mountain scenery and wildlife.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Hans Kleiber (1887-1967) was born in Germany (of Austrian parentage) and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1900. He studied art in New York, but traveled to the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming in 1907. Soon after he became a forest ranger in the Tongue River District. Kleiber retired from the United States Forest Service in 1923 to pursue art full time. Kleiber used the mountain scenery, wildlife, and human inhabitants of the area as his subjects. He developed a national reputation for his etchings and prints.

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Content Description

The Hans Kleiber collection contains many of Kleiber’s etchings of Wyoming scenery and wildlife, Louisiana bayou scenery and wildlife; and sheepherding and other human activity. Also included are photographs of climbing in the Wind River Mountains and of ranger stations and timber operations in the area; manuscripts of nature stories by Hans Kleiber; notes on etching by Kleiber; and a musical setting of a poem by Kleiber.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Preferred Citation

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Hans Kleiber at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information

This material was received from Hans Kleiber, 1963-1965.

Processing Note

Processing Information

The collection was processed by D. Claudia Thompson in April 2017 and October 2020.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Container List
  • Series I. Artwork

    • Description: Across the Prairies, (#66) (2 Items)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Amber Water, (#131)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Antelope on the Head of Black Thunder, (#20)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: At the Hitchrack, (#152)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: At the Hitchrack, (#178), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: At Timberline, (#122)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Avocet, (#107)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Bald Pates, (#110), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Barataria, Louisiana, (#104)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Bayou Teche, Louisiana, (#130)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Bighorn, Wyoming, (#27)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Black Ducks, (#145)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Black Tooth, Wyoming, (#8)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Blackbirds II, (#85)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Bon Voyage, (#23)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Bucket of Blood Saloon, (#73)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: A Burial on the Prairie, (#69)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: A Burial on the Prairie, (#69)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Camp Fire, (#160), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Camping in the Bighorns, Wyoming, Elk Lake, (#11)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Camping in the Rockies, (#197), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Chief Sitting Bull, (#61)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Christmas Eve, (#191), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Christmas Eve, (#192), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Christmas Eve, Dayton, Wyoming, (#24)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Col. W.F. Cody, (#60)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Cooke City, Montana (unnumbered)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Cow Moose and Calf, (#90), Color Plate
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Crossing the Platte, (#71)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Crows in the Fall, Wyoming, (#18)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Curlews, (#118)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Custer Battlefield (unnumbered)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Cypress Swamp, (#129)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Dayton, Wyoming, (#1), (Summer Scene)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Dayton, Wyoming, (#22), (Winter Scene)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Deadwood Coach on the Bozeman Trail, Circle M Ranch, Banner, Wyoming, (#121)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Deep in the Rockies, (#124)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Drake and Lilies, (#97)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Drakes in Summer, (#98)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Drakes in Summer, (#158), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Ducks on Jackson Lake, (#37)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Egrets, (#102)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Egrets, (#103)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Elk Fighting, (#17)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Evening at Elk Lake - Bighorns, (#52), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Evening Flight, (#140)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Evening on the Marshes, (#137)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Evening on the Marshes, (#166), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Evening on the Range, (#50), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Evening on the Trail, (#67)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Evening Star, (#138)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Evening Star, (#156), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Fighting Pheasants, (#135)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Fishing on Piney - Big Horns, (#6)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: A Flock of Honkers, (#113)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Flying Honkers, (#112)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Fort Laramie, (#70)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Frightened Geese, (#36)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Frontier Days, (#42)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Geese Crossing Wyoming, (#82)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Geese Mating Time, (#30)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Geese over the Marshes, (#168), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Grand Chenier, La., (#105)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Grand Teton, (#43)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Green River Lake - 1930, (#25)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Honkers in Flight, (#109)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Honkers Settling, (#142)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Honkers Settling, (#175), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: In Camp, Elk Lake, (#155), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: In Full Flight, (#93)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: An Indian Scout, (#58), (Jim Baker)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: An Indian Scout, (#58), (Jim Baker)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Jackson Lake and the Tetons, (#12)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Knife River Post Office, (#72)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Lake La Croix, Minnesota, (#162), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Lake O' The Woods, (#126)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Lake Solitude, Bighorns, (#9)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Leaping Trout, (#38)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Leaving the Frontier, (#64)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Leigh Lake, (#47)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Little Goose Valley, (#94)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Lone Fisherman, (#88) (2 Items)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Lone Goose, (#144)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Lone Goose, (#167), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Magpies, (#117)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mallards Coming in, (#141)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mallards Coming in, (#176), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mallards - Evening II, (#51), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mallards in Winter, (#190), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mead Creek Pond, (#114)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Meneaska, (#68)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Midway - 1942, (#62)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Morning in the Rockies, (#123), Color Plate
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mount Moran, Wyoming, 1930, (#127)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Near Howland Island, 1937, (#89)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Northern Lights, (#87)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: The Old and the New, (#31)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Old Homestead, (#32)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: An Old Plainsman, (#59)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: An Old Timer, (#57)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: On a Winter Night, (#188), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: On the Oregon Trail, (#65)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: On the Range, (#187), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: On the Wing, (#184), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Pheasants II, (#99)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Pintail Drakes, (#120)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Pitching in, (#195), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Plume Hunter, (#134)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Poacher, (#48), Color Plate
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: A Quick Strike, (#181), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: A Quiet Stream, (#46)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Ranchester, Wyoming, (#3)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Range Horses, (#33)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Range Horses, (#40)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Returning from the Hunt, (#78)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: A Rising Flock, (#116), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Sheep Herder, (#153), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Sheep in the High Country, (#5)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Sheep in the Spring, (#2)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Sheep on Piney, Bighorns, (#4)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Sheep Wagon, (#21)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Skiers, (#39)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Sky Line, Little Goose, Bighorn Mtns, (#34)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Snow Geese, (#101)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Snow in the Rockies, (#149) (2 Items)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Solitude I (unnumbered)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Stormy Evening, (#49), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Study of Magpies, (#100)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Table Mountain - Green River, Wy, (#75)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Through the Clouds, (#63)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Trailherd (unnumbered)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Two Geese, (#30)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Virginia Deer, (#128)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Watering Sheep, (#7)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Weathering a Storm, (#80)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Whistling Swans, (#171), Color
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter, (#45)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter Guests, (#199)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter Guests I, (#132)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter Guests II, (#133)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter in the Rockies, (#186), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter in Wyoming, (#196), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter in Wyoming I, (#95)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter in Wyoming Ii, (#96)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter Moon, (#189), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter on the Range, (#193), Christmas Card, Color Print
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter Trail, (#83) (2 Items)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Winter Trail, (#35), (Cattle)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Yellow Legs I, (#91)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Yellow Legs II, (#92)
      Dates:
      Container: Box 3
    • Untitled:

      Container: Box 3

      • Description: Elk in Snowy Mountain Meadow, (#198), Christmas Card, Color Print (#198)
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: 2 Mallard Ducks Flying Over a Winter Stream, (#182), Christmas Card, Color Print
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: 5 Mallard Ducks Flying Over a Winter Stream, (#185), Christmas Card, Color Print
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: 6 Deer on Snowy Mountain Top, (#179), Christmas Card, Color Print
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: 4 Deer (3 Does, 1 Buck) in Snowy Mountain Meadow (#183) Christmas Card, Color Print
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: 2 Cross-Country Skiers in the Mountains (#180), Christmas Card, Color Print
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: Many Children Ice Skating on a Frozen River Near Homes and a Barn (#194), Christmas Card, Color Print
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3
  • Series II. Papers and Photographs

    • Description: Correspondence from Hans Kleiber, regarding Fritz Lutzow
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "A Beaver's Tale"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Buddy Bangtail"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Mr. and Mrs. Freemont"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Hank Riley"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Two Days with a Coyote"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "The Arrowhead or Lodgepole Pine"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "The Old Engelman Spruce, or The Great Drought"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Brother Flexilis, or Old Limber Pine"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Aspen and Red Fir"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Notes on Etching by Hans Kleiber
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Photographs: Timber Companies, Ranger Stations, Roads, Ranches, and Towns

      Bighorn Timber Company; McShane Lumber Company; Popo Agie Ranger Station; Woodrock Ranger Station; Eaton Ranch; Cody saloon; Dayton, Wyoming; Hans Kleiber and others.

      Dates: 1908, undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Photographs: Wind River Mountains

      Fremont Glacier Expedition (1922); Dinwoody Canyon; Gannett Peak; glaciers; lakes; etc.

      Dates: 1914-1922, undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Sheet Music: "Farewell, My Own Bighorns, Farewell"

      Lyrics by Hans Kleiber, music by Janet Martin (includes program and news clipping)

      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 4

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Animals -- Wyoming.
  • Bayous -- Louisiana -- Art.
  • Birds -- Art.
  • Logging -- Wyoming -- Photographs.
  • Sheep -- Art.

Corporate Names

  • United States. Forest Service.

Geographical Names

  • Wind River Range (Wyo.) -- Photographs.
  • Wyoming -- Art.
  • Wyoming -- History, 1890-1918.
  • Wyoming -- History, 1919-1945.
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