Laura Gilpin, Yucatan field trip photograph collection [graphic]. 1960-1961.

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Laura Gilpin, Yucatan field trip photograph collection [graphic]. 1960-1961.

Summary: Collection consists of images taken by Laura Gilpin for the Museum of International Folk Art in preparation for the "Popular Arts of the Yucatan" exhibition. Includes images of people, scenery, markets, social events, buildings, churches, and other folk art objects.

Contact sheets : 63 : b&w.Negatives : 442 : b&w, col. ; various sizes.Transparencies : 2 : col.Slides : 11 : glass.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7401240

Museum of New Mexico Library

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Gilpin, Laura, 1891-1979

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Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) photographed individuals and traditional life on the Navajo Indian reservation, Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, and American landscapes. From the description of An abandoned mine [art original] : Creede, Colorado. 1942. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 162101076 ...

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)

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Since its official opening in 1953, the Museum of International Folk Art, a unit of the Museum of New Mexico, has sought to collect, preserve, interpret, and present material folk culture from all parts of the globe. It has developed notable collections of textiles, costumes, Spanish Colonial art, contemporary Hispanic crafts of the Southwest, and Latin American folk art. From the description of New Mexico Northeast Sector Overview Project survey, 1984- 1985. (Museum of New Mexico Li...