Laura Gilpin

mounted on Winsor & Newton illustration board, signed and dated in pencil on the mount, a typed label, with credit, title, and publication information, and a 'Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation' label, with typed credit, title, and process and accession information in ink, on the reverse, 1947, printed no later than 1957 (Enduring Grace, pl. 115)

Acquired from the photographer in May 1957 for the Library Collection

This image appears in Gilpin's 1949 volume, The Rio Grande: River of Destiny; an Interpretation of the River, the Land, and the People (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc.), page 236.

This luminous photograph is in generally very good condition. Upon close examination, various small deposits of original retouching are visible. The upper right corner is ever-so-lightly chipped. The off-white mount is slightly abraded along the lower edge. Warm-toned droplet deposits are visible on the front of the mount in the lower left corner. The typed label on the reverse indicates that the original negative was '3¼ x 3¼.'
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