Frank G. Applegate Photograph Collection 1880-1996

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Frank G. Applegate Photograph Collection 1880-1996

This collection contains photographs of Frank Applegate and his family taken between 1906 and the 1950s, along with photographs of their homes and furnishings. Applegate collected some of the photos in this collection for inclusion in a book he planned to write on New Mexican architecture.

2 boxes (266 photograph prints, 8x10 in. and smaller,1 tintype, 1 photograph album)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6404361

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Applegate family

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Applegate, Frank G. (Frank Guy), 1881-1931

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Frank Applegate was an author, artist (painter and sculptor), and scholar. His works include Indian Stories from the Pueblos (1929), Native tales of New Mexico (completed by Mary Austin in 1932), and an unpublished manuscript on Spanish colonial arts. He was a contributor to the Southwest Review, Folk say, and the Saturday Review of Literature . In 1921, Applegate moved to Santa Fe, N.M. He spent several summers in Arizona where he lived with the Hopi to collect stories and help revive Indian ar...

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984

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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...