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CATNUM: 3147
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NameLast: Porter
NameMiddle: Grace
NameMaiden: Stratton
NameUsed: Gene Stratton-Porter
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BirthMonth: 8
BirthDay: 17
BirthYear: 1863
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OriginalBirthCity: Lagro
OriginalBirthState: IN
OriginalBirthCounty: Wabash
OriginalBirthNation: USA
DeathMonth: 12
DeathDay: 6
DeathYear: 1924
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DeathCause: automobile accident
OriginalDeathCity: Los Angeles
OriginalDeathState: CA
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Parents: Mark and Mary (Shallenbeger) Stratton
Children: Jeannette Porter Meehan
Spouse1Name: Charles Dorwin Porter
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:47:18 PM
CreatedBy: sa
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OriginalNotes: Gene Stratton-Porter, by Judith Reick Long (Indiana Historical Society, 1990)
Gene Stratton-Porter The Natural Wonder, Surviving Photographs of The Great Limberlost Swamp by Gene Stratton-Porter (by Jan Dearmin Finney, Indiana State Museum, 1985)
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:47:18 PM
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PersonID: 2959
CATNUM: 3147
NameFirst: 
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City: Geneva
State: IN
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:50:31 PM
CreatedBy: sa
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County: Adams
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OriginalSource: Gene Stratton-Porter The Natural Wonder, Surviving Photographs of The Great Limberlost Swamp by Gene Stratton-Porter (by Jan Dearmin Finney, Indiana State Museum, 1985), p. 13: her first camera was a 4x5 view camera, a Christmas gift from husband and daughter (used to photograph "Major," the family parrot). When she took up the photography of wildlife seriously, she sold family jewelry to buy larger camera. She wrote "In my spare time, I mastered photography to such a degree that the manufactureers of one of our finest brands of print paper once sent the manager of their factory to me to learn how I handled it." Her darkroom was the bathroom, she washed negatives and prints on turkey platters in the kitchen sink, her husband Charles Dorwin Porter mixed her chemicals. For nearly 18 yrs she used these makeshift facilities, stuffing towels around cracks of bathroom door to keep out light. It wasn't until the family built their new home at "Wildflower Woods" (Rome City) in 1913 that she had a proper darkroom. p. 14: she usually hired a man to help carry the heavy photographic gear. Her little black horse and buggy, loaded with cameras, ropes and ladders became a familiar sight on the country roads around the Limberlost. She preferred 8x10 plates. Sometimes the camera had to be slung on ropes between 2 trees in order to get cloase to an obscure nest. This meant someone had to climb a ladder and change the plate for every exposure taken.
Gene Stratton-Porter, by Judith Reick Long (Indiana Historical Society, 1990), p. 149: In about 1900 she wrote a column "Camera Notes" several months for Recreation magazine. She was paid in photographic equipment. After a tiff with the editor, she continued writing about wild birdlife for Outing magazine. The American Annual of Photography published 13 of her photos along with an article about her viewpoint as a field-worker.
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City: Rome City
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:51:20 PM
CreatedBy: sa
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OriginalSource: Gene Stratton-Porter The Natural Wonder, Surviving Photographs of The Great Limberlost Swamp by Gene Stratton-Porter (by Jan Dearmin Finney, Indiana State Museum, 1985), p. 13-14: It wasn't until the family built their new home at "Wildflower Woods" (Rome City) in 1913 that she had a proper darkroom. In a 1921 magazine article entitled "My Ideal Home," she included a description of her new darkroom, which featured a "broad, zinc-lined tray having faucets of hot and cold, hard and soft water, and a big tray in which to develop, fix, and wash plates and prints." The room also contained two closets for storage of chemicals and printing frames, and a lined storage box for unexposed plates. A section of shelving from floor to ceilingf housed the negative library each plate in an envolope having a lettered thumbpiece by which it can be drawn out. No one knows what happened to the thousands of photos that were at "Wildflower Woods" when she died, although there is some indication that a former gardener of hers may have given them to a collector to save them from threatened destruction.
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