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LAURA GILPIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLICATIONS
LAURA GILPIN, American photographer, daughter of cattle rancher Frank Gilpin (Horse Creek, near Austin Bluffs, Colorado) and wife, Emma Miller, April 22, 1891. Gilpin was given her first camera — a Kodak Brownie — in 1903. From that point, her intrigue with photography grew. She printed her first autochrome in 1908 and continued her study in this field and in 1916 she moved to New York. Her photographic education was interrupted in 1918 after contracting a serious case of influenza. Emma Gilpin hired a nurse, Elizabeth Warham Forster, for her daughter, who became Laura Gilpin’s companion for the next fifty years. Laura Gilpin’s photographic career continued until her death, November 30, 1979, the majority of work having been done in Colorado and New Mexico.
MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
LAURA GILPIN
1927
Publication dimensions:
8-1/8 inches by 11 inches
20 pages
THE MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK
REPRODUCTIONS FROM A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY LAURA GILPIN
1927
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Gilpin Publishing Company
Cover design by George William Eggers
Halftones by The Beck Engraving Company, New York City
Printing by The Dentan Printing Company, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Copyright by The Gilpin Publishing Company, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1927
Condition: very good plus; original printed covers generally clean and bright with some scuffing; interior pages are clean, bright, and fresh, with a couple of pages exhibiting a very light bit of foxing in margins. Several small conservation repairs for short tears.