Dane Coolidge's Wild Wild West Exhibit Promo

The Arizona Historical Foundation presents Dane Coolidge's Wild Wild West

The 35 photographs in the exhibit were chosen from 2,000 original 5x7 glass plate negatives. This represents a fraction of Coolidge's work from 1906 to 1917. The exhibit features his favorite themes: cowboys on the range, cattle and horses, border and mining towns, Pancho Villa and lawmen, prospectors and people of the Old West going about their business. These images were not only chosen for their superior aesthetics but also for the activity, the landscape and the characters that could come out of a movie set. Each image is one of a kind.

The Dane Coolidge Glass Plate Negative Collection is part of project that has been accepted as an Arizona 2012 Centennial Legacy Project. The 2,000 plates will be cleaned, re-housed, scanned, and available for viewing on the Arizona Memory Project website by 2012.

The full exhibit can be viewed on the 4th floor of Hayden Library at Arizona State University in Tempe. The exhibit is open to the public during normal library hours. For more information, a map and directions to AHF visit them at: http://www.ahfweb.org

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Education

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• history
• archives
• ASU
• Arizona
• photography
• early 20th century
• cowboys
• cowgirls
• lawmen
• bandits
• mining