PBS Wyoming Chronicle: The Photography of Lora Webb Nichols

 

The images and writings of Lora Webb Nichols chronicle the domestic, social, and economic aspects of the sparsely populated frontier of south-central Wyoming throughout the early 20th century. In all, her archive contains 24,000 images. Two unlikely friends, Nancy Anderson, of the Hanna Basin Museum and Nicole Jean Hill, Professor of Art, Humboldt State University, are working preserve the archive.

 
 
 
 
 

Photographer Alec Soth reviews the book “Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899-1948”

 
 
 

Daily Telegraph UK Article by Lucy Davies