Guide to the Guyol Collection

Collection

Identifier: H76-19

Staff Only

Scope and Content

The collection includes scripts; correspondence; poems; records of Dr. George Catlin, Alice’s father and Hartville physician; and records of family business and mining interests. Also of note are a minute book for the Buena Vista Mining Company, 1913-1918; two elementary school workbooks from the 1930s used in Sunrise; and marriage certificates for G.H. Catlin and Nettie Clark, and Edwin Warren Guyol and Alice Catlin. The certificates are stored separately in Box 5, RR 1185. See inventory at the beginning of the collection for folder listing

Maps associated with the mining interests have been removed for treatment.

Dates

1850-1967

Creator

Guyol, Edwin Warren, 1874-1941 (Person)

Language of Materials

English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication of print materials allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Biographical / Historical

Alice and Edwin Warren Guyol lived varied lives. Alice was born in Ohio in 1882. She taught school in Sunrise, Wyoming for a number of years. The Guyols were Hollywood scriptwriters. Alice was a writer and supervisor for WPA projects in Wyoming in the 1940s. Edwin was a foreign correspondent. Though the Guyol’s apparently traveled extensively, Alice’s obituary indicates she resided in Wyoming all her life, except for short periods. Hartville was their home. Edwin died in 1942, and Alice passed away in 1976

Additional information can be found in a copy of Alice Guyol’s obituary in the inventory folder at the beginning of the collection