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Arts > Photo > USA > Lora Webb Nichols 1883-1962
Charles, Mary Jane and Patricia McDonald, 1930
After the collapse of the copper industry, Nichols remained in Encampment and established the Rocky Mountain Studio, a photography and photofinishing service, to help support her family
A new world: small-town life in early 20th-century America – in pictures From a patient in a TB tent to a birthday boy wearing a Stetson, Lora Webb Nichols captured the fleeting boom of Wyoming’s copper mining industry G Wed 24 Aug 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/24/
Billie Walker in TB tent, 1924
Lora’s images chronicled the domestic, social and economic aspects of the sparsely populated frontier of south-central Wyoming
After the collapse of the copper industry, Nichols remained in Encampment and established the Rocky Mountain Studio, a photography and photofinishing service, to help support her family
A new world: small-town life in early 20th-century America – in pictures From a patient in a TB tent to a birthday boy wearing a Stetson, Lora Webb Nichols captured the fleeting boom of Wyoming’s copper mining industry G Wed 24 Aug 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/24/
Arthell Davis and Marvin Butler, 1933
She founded several businesses in the town Encampment including the Encampment Echo newspaper and The Sugar Bowl, selling soda and ice cream
A new world: small-town life in early 20th-century America – in pictures From a patient in a TB tent to a birthday boy wearing a Stetson, Lora Webb Nichols captured the fleeting boom of Wyoming’s copper mining industry G Wed 24 Aug 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/24/
Untitled, 1940
An exhibition of her photographs will be held at Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO from 7 October until 19 November, 2022
A new world: small-town life in early 20th-century America – in pictures From a patient in a TB tent to a birthday boy wearing a Stetson, Lora Webb Nichols captured the fleeting boom of Wyoming’s copper mining industry G Wed 24 Aug 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/24/
Regna Simms and Franklin Cook, 1929
Her commercial studio was a focal point of the town throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
A new world: small-town life in early 20th-century America – in pictures From a patient in a TB tent to a birthday boy wearing a Stetson, Lora Webb Nichols captured the fleeting boom of Wyoming’s copper mining industry G Wed 24 Aug 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/24/
Alma and Ted Higby, 1929
Photographer and professor Nicole Jean Hill rediscovered Nichols’ archive in 2013 at the Grand Encampment Museum
A new world: small-town life in early 20th-century America – in pictures From a patient in a TB tent to a birthday boy wearing a Stetson, Lora Webb Nichols captured the fleeting boom of Wyoming’s copper mining industry G Wed 24 Aug 2022 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/24/
Lora Webb Nichols 1883-1962
Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962) was born in Boulder, Colorado.
She lived most of her life in Encampment, Wyoming where she was married to Albert (Bert) Oldman in 1900, and to her cousin Guy H. Nichols in 1914.
She worked in the Encampment post office, owned and published the Encampment newspaper, and worked as a ranch cook.
In 1935, she moved to Stockton, California, where she became superintendent of the Stockton Childrens Home.
Upon retiring, she returned to Encampment, where she wrote her unfinished memoirs, "I Remember : A Girl's Eye View of Early Days in the Rocky Mountains." https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/luna/servlet
From a patient in a TB tent to a birthday boy wearing a Stetson, Lora Webb Nichols captured the fleeting boom of Wyoming’s copper mining industry
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/24/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/24/
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/
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