Summary: Arizona Historical Foundation Photo Preservationist Rebekah Tabah joins host Fred McIlvain on-location at Hayden Library to discuss the 2010 exhibit ”Dane Coolidge’s Wild Wild West.” This exhibit features historic Arizona photographs taken by scientist, artist, explorer, and author Dane Coolidge. Coolidge, a relative of President Calvin Coolidge, started his career as a biologist hired by the Smithsonian to take pictures of western animals. He fell in love with western people, places and photography and began creating a pictorial history of the southwest. He also authored over forty western novels in addition to his non-fiction works. Download Podcast (MP3 Audio) The 35 photographs in the exhibit were chosen from 2,000 original 5×7 glass plate negatives dating 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 on the Tempe campus. 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 Host: Fred McIlvain Guest: Rebekah Tabah Episode 105 Running Time: 10:00 Exhibit Promo Video:
