Clyde Robertson photograph collection

undated

516

1 box.

Two portrait photographs of Colorado author and poet laureate Clyde Robertson; photographs of art by Sheila Burlingame, daughter of Clyde Robertson, done to illustrate Clyde's poems; photos of portraits of famous women, inspiration for her collection of poems, "Famous Women"; an 8mm reel of film titled "A Day at Kippen", story by Clyde Robertson, produced by the League of American Pen Women, Central Colorado Branch.

Margaret Clyde Applegate was born in Franklin, Indiana in 1870. She was educated through high school in Lyons, Kansas. She came to Colorado in 1890, having divorced her first husband, George Ellsworth, whom she married in 1886. She remarried in 1897 to William Earl Robertson, and lived in Leadville for many years. She began her career as a singer of light opera, became a writer, and was appointed Colorado Poet Laureate in 1953 at the age of 83.

RIGHTS: Materials in this collection may be used freely for any purpose, with attribution to the Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder. No duplicated materials may be deposited or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.

Photographs.

Robertson, Clyde
1870-1954
Corriell, Lois Stenborn

Burlingame, Sheila
Robertson, Clyde, 1870-1954
Motion pictures--Colorado
West (U.S.)--Poetry--Illustrations
Colorado author.

Donor: Lois Corriell Boulder, CO Gift 1989.