The Sketch Book of Nick DeLuca

Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962) was a prolific diarist and photographer who lived most of her life in southcentral Wyoming. She accumulated more than 24,000 negatives, representing the many shades of life in the frontier mining town of Encampment. Today, the American Heritage Center is the home to the Lora Webb Nichols Papers, a collection of transcripts, photographs, and negatives depicting Wyoming, California, and the Rocky Mountain region.

“This collection is an endless source for interpreting Wyoming during [Nichols’s] time frame,” said Nancy F. Anderson, a close friend of the Nichols family and author of Lora Webb Nichols: Homesteader’s Daughter, Miner’s Bride. “Endless. Sixty-five years of diary, almost 24,000 images. There are diaries, letters, objects. The collection is absolutely breathtaking.”

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Featured image: Box 4, Photo #2031, Lora Webb Nichols Papers, Collection Number 1005, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.