Hanna Basin Museum
  • Museum
    • 2020 Carbon Cemetery Association and Hanna Basin Historical Society ​Spring Newsletter
    • 2019: Hanna Basin Historical Society and Carbon Cemetery Association Newsletter
    • Visitors to the Museum
    • Books and Magazines to Read Online about the Hanna Basin
    • Books Available for Purchase at the Hanna Basin Museum
    • Order Form for Materials Available for Purchase at the Museum
    • Membership and Support
    • Links to Other Wyoming Museums >
      • Medicine Bow, Wyoming, Museum and Hanna Basin Neighbor
      • Rock Springs, Wyoming, Historical Museum
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  • Carbon
    • Hanna Basin Museum - Time Line
    • CARBON CEMETERY RECORDS
    • Carbon Mine Fatality Records
    • Visitors to the Carbon Cemetery
    • Carbon - Wings of Imagination - A Letter From Old Carbon
    • Carbon - A Poem by Mrs. C. E. Ellis
    • 2003: Carbon Cemetery Restoration
    • 2011: Carbon, Carbon County, Cemetery Restoration 2011
    • 2011: Bow River FFA Community Service Project: Carbon Cemetery
    • 2014: The Carbon Cemetery
    • 2015: The Old Carbon Cemetery Privy
  • Hanna
    • HANNA HAPPENINGS
    • THE HANNA CEMETERY: From the Bottom of the Mine
    • HANNA CEMETERY RECORDS
    • Hanna Burial Plots and Lots >
      • Hanna Blocks and Lots 1 - 6
      • Hanna Plots 1 - 50
      • Hanna Plots 51 - 80
      • Hanna Plots 81 - 129
      • Hanna Plots 130 - 175
      • Hanna Plots 176 - 209
      • Hanna Plots 210 - 298
      • Hanna Plots 299 - 349
      • Hanna Plots 350 - 379
      • Hanna Plots 380 - 419
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    • Hanna Early Churches >
      • Introduction to Hanna’s Early Churches
      • Episcopal Church - History, Bell and Cross
      • Methodist Church - Organ
      • Colored Baptist Church
    • Hanna Military in the Hanna Cemetery >
      • Hanna Cemetery - In The Military
      • Arthurs, Peter Killed in Action World War I
      • Love, Michael V. Killed In The Line Of Duty
      • Jones, William D. Died of Wounds Received In Action World War I
      • Lucas, Bernard R. Killed In Action World War II
      • Lucas, William C. Died of Wounds Recieved In Action World War II
      • Luoma, Arvo A. Killed in Action World War II
      • McAtee, William J. Killed in Action Vietnam
      • Saari, John Killed in Action World War II
    • Hanna Cemetery - Japanese Monuments Transcribed
    • Grave Headstones for Hanna Miner Fatalities Buried Elsewhere than Hanna
    • Hanna Where Did They Come From?
  • The People
  • Schools
  • Coal Mines
    • A History of the Hanna Coal Miner from 1868 to 2017: Bob Leathers' Notebook
    • Hanna Basin Mining Companies and Mines
    • Men Injured in the Hanna Mines
    • 1903 June 30: Explosion of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 mine in Hanna >
      • Hanna 1903 Explosion Explained
      • List of Miners Killed in the June 30, 1903 Explosion
      • 1904 State Mine Inspector's Report for 1903 Explosion
      • 1903 Explosion Coroner's Inquest
      • 1903 Explosion - Earle Holmes Letter to Wilson Gobble
    • Hanna 1908 Mine Explosions Explained >
      • List of Miners Killed in the March 28, 1908 Explosions
      • 1908 Explosion Coroner's Inquest Report
      • Noah Young's 1908 Hanna Explosion Report to Governor B.B. Brooks
      • 1908 State Coal Mine Inspectors Report - 1908 Hanna Mine Number 1 Explosion
      • David M. Elias - State Mine Inspector Killed in 1908 Explosion
      • 1908 Explosion - Gov. B.B. Brooks Communiations
      • April 3, 1908 Chums From Boyhood Died Side By Side
      • April 16, 1908 U.P. May Not Be Liable
      • 1908: Newspaper Articles from The Wigan Observer in England About the March 28, 1908 Explosion of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine in Hanna
      • Death of Noah Young - State Mine Inspector for the 1908 Explosion of Mine No. 1
    • 1916 Labor Agreement Between the United Mine Workers of America and the Southern Wyoming Coal Operators
    • 1917 Labor Agreement Between the United Mine Workers of America and the Southern Wyoming Coal Operators
    • 1970 - 1980: Bill Becker's Hanna Strip Mine Blasting Videos
  • Gallery
    • 1889-1912: ​ Elmer Larson - The Butvier Collection from Sally Hafdell and David Eriksson in Sweden
    • Images from Early Hanna Basin and Wyoming
    • Early History of the Union Pacific Railroad
    • 1910-1920: McNulty Family Photo Collection ​Albert Film - Hanna Basin Adventurer
    • 1920 -1930: Gert Milliken's Photo Collection of Unknown Children, Women, Men, and Families in Hanna
    • 1963 October 2: A Large Cattle Drive from Palm Livestock Company at Elk Mountain ​ to Hanna's Union Pacific Railroad Stockyard
    • 2017 April 18: Un​ion Pacific Steam Engine 844 Stopped at Hanna, Wyoming
    • 2019 May 17 and May 4: Big Boy​ 4014 and Engine 844 Were Running the Rails Again
    • Images of Old Carbon Today
  • Notebook

Film, Albert "Abbie" and Margaret (Briggs)

Images and notes by Paul McNulty

Picture
#113 McNulty Collection
Albert "Abbie" Film passed away in New York in 1978, but he left behind with his family a collection of pictures that gives a historical view of the Hanna Basin area in the early 1900's. Thanks to Mr. Film's grandson, Paul McNulty, the Albert Film pictures are now shared with all those with an interest in Hanna history! Not all of Mr. Film's pictures are shared here, but all the pictures are available for viewing at the Hanna Basin Museum.
Abbie Film was an interesting man with a strong connection to the Hanna Basin. He was born November 16, 1890 in New York, but looking for adventure he left Troy, New York and traveled out west when he was about 16 years old. He ended up in Hanna about 1906.  At age 21 he married Hanna resident Margaret Briggs, age 18, in Rock Springs on November 30, 1911. Margaret Briggs was the daughter of Alexander and Anna Briggs. She was born on April 26, 1893 in Carbon. Margaret's father, Alexander, was killed in the 1908 explosion of the No. 1 mine. He was superintendent of the Hanna mines at the time of his death.

Abbie and Margaret moved from Hanna to New York in about 1915, but made several trips back to the Hanna over the years.
Paul McNulty, Abbie Film's grandson, wrote about his grandfather:
Albert "Abbie" Film took a number of pictures of Hanna, its people, and the surrounding area. He developed the pictures onto postcard stock. 

When I was a kid, I used to sit in my grandfather's living room and look at the photographs and listen to his stories of Hanna. He told me about his friend "Ogee" the Indian Sherifff. Ogee tracked down two robbers who hid out with a sheep herd in the prairie and brought them back dead. On horses....Bloated. Dead.

Another story he told me was how he worked in the store (Coal company store?) and that the mule drivers for the mine would come into the store and spit tobacco juice onto the display cases. They (my grandfather and the staff) would have to clean it off. After some time and a verbal go around my grandfather Abbie, the staff decided they would confront the drivers. My grandfather Abbie said they were a bad bunch. The next time, after one of them spit on the display case, my grandfather told them not to do it again, so of course they did. Abbie told me that he got into a fight with the mule driver and that they clinched up together and fell through one of the glass display cases. The glass cut a big slit in his wrist (he showed me the scar). Yep, there was the scar. He also said that two of the guys behind the counter had shotguns, loaded, for backup just in case things got really bad. He said the mule drivers never gave them a hard time or spit on the display cases again. Not sure but I think that the mule drivers went deep into the mine on the RR type tracks and brought out the coal in small carts to the surface.
I am sending these pictures in the hope that you will find some of your family and will find some good memories of Hanna and the Wyoming area. I hope you will find some of your relatives in these pictures, if not..... I Just hope you will have some fun with the pictures. (Paul McNulty, May 2015)
Note: No Hanna Cemetery records found.

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