The Archiving of Lora Webb Nichols (with Nancy Anderson)

<p>This episode is basically all Lora Webb Nichols. We’ll tell you a bit about her life, a little about her photos, and we’ll talk to Nancy Anderson, the woman responsible for saving her collection. And speaking of saving collections, we’re covering how places like the Smithsonian preserve their photography archives, and how we can all do a little better in our own archiving. Not only that, but Tiffen Sinclair will be dropping by once again! Oh, and we’ve got zine reviews.</p> Lora Webb Nichols <p>Lora Webb Nichols received her first camera – a Kodak box – from Bert, her future husband, a month after her 16th birthday.The next day, she took a photo of her mother in the doorway. In turn, her mother took one of Lora, and then one of Lora and Yankee, the cat. “My camera is the best fun” Lora concluded at the end of the roll.</p> <p> From this moment, until her death in 1962, Lora photographed everything, amassing nearly 18,000 photos. </p> <p>We will be sharing more of her photos on social media, but here is a nice collection:</p> <p> </p> <p>You can read more about her, and see more of her photos here: <a href='http://www.lorawebbnichols.org/'>http://www.lorawebbnichols.org/</a></p> <p>Basically every single photo she took and collected are available to view at the American Heritage Center archive <a href='https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/luna/servlet/view/all/who/Nichols%252C%2BLora%2BWebb%252C%2B1883-1962.?sort=rid%2Ctitle%2Cdate_original%2Csource'>here</a>.</p> <p>Grand Encampment Museum: <a href='https://gemuseum.com/'>https://gemuseum.com/</a></p> Nancy Anderson <p>Nancy Anderson lived with Lora Webb Nichols in the early 60s, and now lives in the Lora’s old house. It is her we have to thank for preserving the unbelievably huge archive of Lora’s 24,000 negatives, including over 18,000 of her own. </p> <p>Nancy specifically mentioned a few photos during the interview. Here are the ones that we could track down:</p> <p> </p> Archi