Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899-1948

First Edition

Designed by the award-winning designer, Hans Gremmen, and released by the internationally renowned book publisher FW Books, a photography book featuring a curated selection of Lora Webb Nichols’ most impressive images is available for order.

Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899-1948 features Nichols’ own work and the images by amateur photographers she collected in the early 20th century as the proprietor of a photofinishing business in southern Wyoming. Culled from over 24,000 photographs, the book provides a dynamic visual window into the social, domestic, and economic aspects of the American Western frontier and captures an elusive sense of place through the images of this community of friends, families, and strangers.

8.5”x11”, 208 pages, tritone, hardcover, Edited by Nicole Jean Hill, Published by Fw: Books, Amsterdam, Text by Nancy F. Anderson and Nicole Jean Hill, Graphic Design by Hans Gremmen, Printing by Drukkerij Tienkamp. Financial support generously provided by the Wyoming Community Foundation, the J.M. Kaplan Furthermore Grant and Beth & Bruce White.

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Lora Webb Nichols: Homesteader’s Daughter, Miner’s Bride

First Edition

This initial volume presents Lora first as an adolescent, then as young wife and mother. The early background is a valley homestead in territorial Wyoming; at the turn of the century, a copper boom brings speculators, prospectors, and an accompanying flow of outsiders. It is in Grand Encampment City and the Mining District that Lora comes of age. Her life, seemingly ordinary, became extraordinary through the power of her written record and her photographs- both full of spontaneous feeling and yet exhibiting objectivity which makes Lora’s experience university and memorable. This book is a collection of Lora’s own words from her diaries from 1898-1912 compiled by Nancy F. Anderson.

Publisher : Caxton Pr; First Edition (December 1, 1995)

Language : English

Paperback : 296 pages

ISBN-10 : 0870043684

ISBN-13 : 978-0870043680

Item Weight : 1.36 pounds

Dimensions : 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches