Frank Staplin Collection, 1913 ca.

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Frank Staplin Collection, 1913 ca.

Photographs primarily documents the Shiprock Fair in New Mexico.

14 black-and-white photographs.

eng,

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Staplin, Frank

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Frank Staplin was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1874 and was raised in La Veta, Colorado where his Father homesteaded, ranched and mined. Frank founded several newspapers in northern New Mexico Territroy between 1892 and 1902. He was also a member of the New Mexico Territorial House of Representatives from 1899 to 1901. About 1900 he began trading in Indian goods with Bert Geer Phillips, noted Taos artist. Moving to Farmington, New Mexico Territory in 1905, he established...