DONOR:

The family of Jack Glasco

SIZE:

20 cubic feet

SCOPE & CONTENT:

The Glasco photographic collection includes negatives, prints and slides. Primary topics include White Sands Missile Range, the Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Holloman Air Force Base (training of chimpanzees), rattlesnakes, New Mexico and the Southwest and family photographs.

BIOGRAPHY:

Jack D. Glasco was born in Newlin, TX in 1918 and died in Alamogordo, NM in 2004.

A professional photographer for over 50 years, Jack served in the military, at White Sands Test Facility (Apollo Site) in New Mexico, as the lead photographer, and as a laboratory chief at NASA White Sands Test Facility. He began his photography career in the Army Air Force with training in advanced photography and advanced aerial photography at Reeves Photography School, Lubbock, TX, Jack also earned an associates degree, in Mass Communications, from New Mexico State University.

In addition to his work at White Sands Test Facility (later White Sands Missile Range), Jack was the owner of Jack's Camera Shop in Alamogordo, NM, and was an avid rattlesnake catcher and handler.

Photographs by Jack Glasco had world-wide exposure in a variety of publications including Life Magazine, Yank Magazine, Armed Forces newspapers, the Avalance-Journal newspaper, New Mexico Magazine, the Alamogordo Daily News, the El Paso Times and the Denver Post.

In 1983, Glasco was the second-place winner in a world-wide photo contest sponsored by Victor Hasselblad, Inc., Gotegorg, Sweden.