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Fort Collins: : The Miller Photographs by Barbara Fleming and Malcolm McNeill (2009, Trade Paperback)

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The town he chose to live and work in sits in a river valley in northern Colorado, nestled between the Rocky Mountain foothills and the semiarid high plains, with Denver to the south and Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the north.

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PublisherArcadia Publishing

ISBN-100738569879

ISBN-139780738569871

eBay Product ID (ePID)71651154

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Book TitleFort Collins: : the Miller Photographs

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / West / Mountain (Az, Co, Id, Mt, NM, Nv, Ut, WY), Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional)

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Photography, History

AuthorBarbara Fleming, Malcolm Mcneill

Book SeriesImages of America Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight10.5 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.5 in

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ReviewsTitle: Fort Collins duo pours over thousands of photographs for new history book Author: Rebecca Boyle Publisher: Fort Collins Now Date: 5/7/09 Even the most ardent scrapbookers have a hard time paring down their pictures. How to choose between the picture of the baby smiling and the picture of him with birthday cake all over his face? How to whittle down the Poudre Canyon pictures into just a couple of the dog and the kids in the river? OK, now try that with pictures you didn’t take. Then try it with 70,000 of those pictures. That was the task before local historian Barbara Fleming and collector Malcolm McNeill, who spent months poring over pictures by Mark Miller, Fort Collins’ most famous photographer for most of the 20th century. Their shared labor of love, the new book Fort Collins: The Miller Photographs”, went on sale last week. Seventy-thousand pictures sounds enormous, and it is. But 60,000 or more of them are people pictures. The things they made their money on, Miller and the other photographers like him, probably still today, are school pictures, from CSU and the high schools; family portraits at Christmas time for Christmas cards; group pictures, things like that,” McNeill said. Through those pictures, taken from 1911 to 1970, Miller chronicled the evolution of Fort Collins from a scrappy frontier town to a modern city, from the days of horses and buggies into the last quarter of the 20th century. F Though much has changed, it’s striking how many things are the same. A postcard Miller shot of the Oval, for instance, looks like it might have been taken yesterday. A photograph of the Northern Hotel looks similarly up-to-date — even the awnings look the same — but the image’s age is betrayed by the 1940s-era automobiles parked outside what is now a Starbucks. McNeill, 63, has long been a collector of stamps, books and other items, and when he moved to Fort Collins after retirement in 2001, he started collecting old postcards of the city, partly to learn about his new home. Many of the postcards were made from prints of photographic negatives, which often have the photographer’s name on the card. I started to see Miller showing up quite a bit,” McNeill said. He asked Lesley Drayton, an archivist at the Fort Collins Museum, who that was. She told him the museum owned 70,000 of his negatives. I thought, gee, there’s a book here,” McNeill said. He discussed it with Fleming, a longtime local history expert with whom he collaborated on a series for Fort Collins Now called Picturing the Past.” Fleming, who was born in Fort Collins, has her own connection to Miller — he took a wedding photograph of her mother, which Fleming, 73, still has in her bedroom. McNeill and Fleming envisioned a glossy, hard-cover book with hundreds of Miller photographs, but soon realized it’s hard to find a publisher for a limited-run local history book. Then they found Arcadia Publishing, which specializes in just that. The company also published a book of images of Rocky Mountain National Park. Arcadia was interested in a book about Fort Collins partly because the city has gained so much national recognition as a best place to live,” Fleming said. Though many books have been written about the city’s early history, there wasn’t much about the early 20th century, the period covered by Miller’s photographs. Fleming and McNeill had fun picking some of the book’s whimsical photos, including a snapshot of a posture contest” in the 1950s, in which winners were the ones who stood most erect, and a huge cooking class in which more than 200 people showed up to learn how to make cherry pie. McNeill preferred pictures of building s. Fleming favored photos of people

SynopsisPhotographer Mark Miller opened his studio in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 1914. The town he chose to live and work in sits in a river valley in northern Colorado, nestled between the Rocky Mountain foothills and the semiarid high plains, with Denver to the south and Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the north. Established as a Civil War-era army post, the town was a Wild West frontier outpost until it was tamed in the 1870s by the arrival of a land-grant college and the railroad. By the turn of the century, Fort Collins had become a quietly respectable college town with a thriving economy and steadily increasing population. Over almost six decades, as the small town evolved into a city, Miller photographed people, businesses, and landscapes. Fort Collins: The Miller Photographs offers a representative sampling of the over 70,000 Miller images, a collection housed at the Fort Collins Museum's Local History Archive.