Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Exhibition in Auxerre

Name: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Exhibition in Auxerre
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives départementales de l'Yonne

European Heritage Days 2023

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free entry

A mythical figure in the conquest of the American West, Willam Cody received his nickname “Buffalo Bill” after killing large numbers of bison to supply meat to the workers of the Kansas Pacific Railway. Building on his reputation, he created a great popular show, the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, presented during American and European tours that attracted millions of spectators. On July 28, 1905, a gigantic convoy landed at the Saint-Gervais d'Auxerre station and the capitals were planted in record time for two performances on the same day. Moreau, amateur photographer, immortalized this event with photographs on glass plate today preserved in the Departmental Archives.

About the location

Archives départementales de l'Yonne

37 rue Saint-Germain 89000 Auxerre

Yonne
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Instituted under Revolution (law of 5 brumaire the year V) to receive papers acquired in the Republic (the national property(goods), deleted(eliminated) administrations) and to collect documents emanating from new administrations, departmental archives assure(insure) the preservation of documents produced by different administrations and establishments which followed one another on the territory of the department. They assume(accept) five missions so: collect the archive documents of administrations and utility having their seat(siege) in the department, as well as certain documents of private origin; keep(preserve) these documents in appropriated premises(places); list(classify) them and draught instruments of research(search) which allow to the public to have access there; announce archives to the public, respecting the lawful(legal) deadlines(extensions) of communicability, and orientate researches(searches); assure(insure) the cultural promotion(valuation) of bottoms by the organisation of exhibitions(exposures) or of actions(shares) in favour of the widest public.