Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:28:11 -0800
Subject: Re: Bellows patch & Laura Gilpin
>>>... my 8x10 Ellwood enlarger c. 1948. (It
>>>used to belong to Laura Gilpin so it's my pride and joy!)
>>>
>>--Dick Sullivan
>>>
>>I'm going to tell her cusin, Henry Gilpin at Monterey Peninsula College
>>about THAT!
>>
>>;)Steve
>
>
>Is Henry really her cousin?
>
>
>OK my little Laura Gilpin altphoto story. About 15 years ago I taught at a
>private high school in Colorado Springs. Another nearby school, Fountain
>Valley, knew of me and my work in altphoto and guessed I knew something
>about archival storage, etc. Well, they had recently unearthed an old file
>cabinet and found, STUFFED IN MANILLA ENVELOPES!!, a bunch of Laura
>Gilpin's platinum prints (and some silver ones, too) which had been
>commissioned by the school many years before. Little beauties they were. I
>advised them on proper storage and should have asked for a print for all my
>"trouble" but gosh, gee wiz, I'm such an honest guy. Colorado was a funny
>place for photo stuff. It happened on occasion that you'd go to some garage
>sale and find O'Sullivans that had been pruchased by someone's great
>grandparents years ago who lived there when the USGS photographers came
>through. Many were pretty beat up, but those Gilpins were little charmers.
>Some of her published work came from the project she did at Fountain Valley
>-- it had hundreds of acres on the Colorado Plains just east of Pikes Peak.
>
>
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Yes, Henry is Laura's cousin. He's a quiet guy, unless he's angered; but
quiet and modest and very interested in all the Laura stories as near as I
can tell.
He may even be subscribing to this list, thought I don't know his e-mail
address. Henry Gilpin has an e-mail address, though.
Steve
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