AHJ_ah01172 Inventory of the Hans Kleiber Papers and Artwork, 1908-1964 Kleiber (Hans) Papers Processed by D. Claudia Thompson University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
American Heritage Center Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 307.766.2574 Fax:307.766.5511 Email:ahcref@uwyo.edu URL:http://ahc.uwyo.edu/
2017

University of Wyoming

 Finding aid encoded by D. Claudia Thompson April 2017 Finding aid is in English Collection Summary Kleiber, Hans, 1887-1967 Hans Kleiber papers and artwork 1908-1964 01172 3.00 cubic ft. (4 containers) University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English Etchings, manuscripts, and photographs of a Wyoming artist best known for depictions of mountain scenery and wildlife. Biography of Hans Kleiber

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.

 Scope and Content

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.

 Access Restrictions

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

 Copyright Information

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

 Related Materials

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

 Acquisition Information

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

 Processing Information

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

 Preferred Citation

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

 Access Terms United States. Forest Service. Birds -- Art. Sheep -- Art. Bayous -- Louisiana -- Art. Logging -- Wyoming -- Photographs. Animals -- Wyoming. Wind River Range (Wyo.) -- Photographs. Wyoming -- Art. Wyoming -- History, 1890-1918. Wyoming -- History, 1919-1945. <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Fine Arts Wyoming Fisheries and Wildlife Container List Series I. Artwork

1Across the Prairies, (#66) (2 Items) 1Amber Water, (#131) 1Antelope on the Head of Black Thunder, (#20) 1At the Hitchrack, (#152) 1At the Hitchrack, (#178), Christmas Card, Color Print 1At Timberline, (#122) 1Avocet, (#107) 1Bald Pates, (#110), Color 1Barataria, Louisiana, (#104) 1Bayou Teche, Louisiana, (#130) 1Bighorn, Wyoming, (#27) 1Black Ducks, (#145) 1Black Tooth, Wyoming, (#8) 1Blackbirds II, (#85) 1Bon Voyage, (#23) 1Bucket of Blood Saloon, (#73) 1A Burial on the Prairie, (#69) 1A Burial on the Prairie, (#69) 1Camp Fire, (#160), Color 1Camping in the Bighorns, Wyoming, Elk Lake, (#11) 1Camping in the Rockies, (#197), Christmas Card, Color Print 1Chief Sitting Bull, (#61) 1Christmas Eve, (#191), Christmas Card, Color Print 1Christmas Eve, (#192), Christmas Card, Color Print 1Christmas Eve, Dayton, Wyoming, (#24) 1Col. W.F. Cody, (#60) 1Cooke City, Montana (unnumbered) 1Cow Moose and Calf, (#90), Color Plate 1Crossing the Platte, (#71) 1Crows in the Fall, Wyoming, (#18) 1Curlews, (#118) 1Custer Battlefield (unnumbered) 1Cypress Swamp, (#129) 1Dayton, Wyoming, (#1), (Summer Scene) 1Dayton, Wyoming, (#22), (Winter Scene) 1Deadwood Coach on the Bozeman Trail, Circle M Ranch, Banner, Wyoming, (#121) 1Deep in the Rockies, (#124) 1Drake and Lilies, (#97) 1Drakes in Summer, (#98) 1Drakes in Summer, (#158), Color 1Ducks on Jackson Lake, (#37) 1Egrets, (#102) 1Egrets, (#103) 1Elk Fighting, (#17) 1Evening at Elk Lake - Bighorns, (#52), Color 1Evening Flight, (#140) 1Evening on the Marshes, (#137) 1Evening on the Marshes, (#166), Color 1Evening on the Range, (#50), Color 1Evening on the Trail, (#67) 1Evening Star, (#138) 1Evening Star, (#156), Color 1Fighting Pheasants, (#135) 1Fishing on Piney - Big Horns, (#6) 1A Flock of Honkers, (#113) 1Flying Honkers, (#112) 1Fort Laramie, (#70) 1Frightened Geese, (#36) 1Frontier Days, (#42) 2Geese Crossing Wyoming, (#82) 2Geese Mating Time, (#30) 2Geese over the Marshes, (#168), Color 2Grand Chenier, La., (#105) 2Grand Teton, (#43) 2Green River Lake - 1930, (#25) 2Honkers in Flight, (#109) 2Honkers Settling, (#142) 2Honkers Settling, (#175), Color 2In Camp, Elk Lake, (#155), Color 2In Full Flight, (#93) 2An Indian Scout, (#58), (Jim Baker) 2An Indian Scout, (#58), (Jim Baker) 2Jackson Lake and the Tetons, (#12) 2Knife River Post Office, (#72) 2Lake La Croix, Minnesota, (#162), Color 2Lake O' The Woods, (#126) 2Lake Solitude, Bighorns, (#9) 2Leaping Trout, (#38) 2Leaving the Frontier, (#64) 2Leigh Lake, (#47) 2Little Goose Valley, (#94) 2Lone Fisherman, (#88) (2 Items) 2Lone Goose, (#144) 2Lone Goose, (#167), Color 2Magpies, (#117) 2Mallards Coming in, (#141) 2Mallards Coming in, (#176), Color 2Mallards - Evening II, (#51), Color 2Mallards in Winter, (#190), Christmas Card, Color Print 2Mead Creek Pond, (#114) 2Meneaska, (#68) 2Midway - 1942, (#62) 2Morning in the Rockies, (#123), Color Plate 2Mount Moran, Wyoming, 1930, (#127) 2Near Howland Island, 1937, (#89) 2Northern Lights, (#87) 2The Old and the New, (#31) 2Old Homestead, (#32) 2An Old Plainsman, (#59) 2An Old Timer, (#57) 2On a Winter Night, (#188), Christmas Card, Color Print 2On the Oregon Trail, (#65) 2On the Range, (#187), Christmas Card, Color Print 2On the Wing, (#184), Christmas Card, Color Print 2Pheasants II, (#99) 2Pintail Drakes, (#120) 2Pitching in, (#195), Christmas Card, Color Print 2Plume Hunter, (#134) 2Poacher, (#48), Color Plate 2A Quick Strike, (#181), Christmas Card, Color Print 2A Quiet Stream, (#46) 2Ranchester, Wyoming, (#3) 2Range Horses, (#33) 2Range Horses, (#40) 2Returning from the Hunt, (#78) 2A Rising Flock, (#116), Color 3Sheep Herder, (#153), Color 3Sheep in the High Country, (#5) 3Sheep in the Spring, (#2) 3Sheep on Piney, Bighorns, (#4) 3Sheep Wagon, (#21) 3Skiers, (#39) 3Sky Line, Little Goose, Bighorn Mtns, (#34) 3Snow Geese, (#101) 3Snow in the Rockies, (#149) (2 Items) 3Solitude I (unnumbered) 3Stormy Evening, (#49), Color 3Study of Magpies, (#100) 3Table Mountain - Green River, Wy, (#75) 3Through the Clouds, (#63) 3Trailherd (unnumbered) 3Two Geese, (#30) 3Virginia Deer, (#128) 3Watering Sheep, (#7) 3Weathering a Storm, (#80) 3Whistling Swans, (#171), Color 3Winter, (#45) 3Winter Guests, (#199) 3Winter Guests I, (#132) 3Winter Guests II, (#133) 3Winter in the Rockies, (#186), Christmas Card, Color Print 3Winter in Wyoming, (#196), Christmas Card, Color Print 3Winter in Wyoming I, (#95) 3Winter in Wyoming Ii, (#96) 3Winter Moon, (#189), Christmas Card, Color Print 3Winter on the Range, (#193), Christmas Card, Color Print 3Winter Trail, (#83) (2 Items) 3Winter Trail, (#35), (Cattle) 3Yellow Legs I, (#91) 3Yellow Legs II, (#92) 3Untitled: 3Elk in Snowy Mountain Meadow, (#198), Christmas Card, Color Print (#198) 32 Mallard Ducks Flying Over a Winter Stream, (#182), Christmas Card, Color Print 35 Mallard Ducks Flying Over a Winter Stream, (#185), Christmas Card, Color Print 36 Deer on Snowy Mountain Top, (#179), Christmas Card, Color Print 34 Deer (3 Does, 1 Buck) in Snowy Mountain Meadow (#183) Christmas Card, Color Print 32 Cross-Country Skiers in the Mountains (#180), Christmas Card, Color Print 3Many Children Ice Skating on a Frozen River Near Homes and a Barn (#194), Christmas Card, Color Print Series II. Papers and Photographs

4 Correspondence from Hans Kleiber, regarding Fritz Lutzow 1964 4 Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "A Beaver's Tale" undated 4 Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Buddy Bangtail" undated 4 Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Mr. and Mrs. Freemont" undated 4 Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Hank Riley" undated 4 Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Two Days with a Coyote" undated 4 Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "The Arrowhead or Lodgepole Pine" undated 4 Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "The Old Engelman Spruce, or The Great Drought" undated 4 Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Brother Flexilis, or Old Limber Pine" undated 4 Manuscripts by Hans Kleiber: "Aspen and Red Fir" undated 4 Notes on Etching by Hans Kleiber 1962 4 Photographs: Timber Companies, Ranger Stations, Roads, Ranches, and Towns 1908, undated

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

4 Photographs: Wind River Mountains 1914-1922, undated

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

 4 Sheet Music: "Farewell, My Own Bighorns, Farewell" 1963

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