Guilliams Collection

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Guilliams collection!
Guilliams Mission collection!

DONOR:

Darrell L. Copeland, 2004

SIZE:

Twenty-four cubic feet

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Slides of El Paso and surrounding are; also of trips to Mexico, Germany, Australia; Trophy award 1963, personal papers, scrapbooks of photos and certificates.

BIOGRAPHY:

Ralph A. Guilliams

Born: February 18, 1911, in a log cabin in Paonia CO

Died: August 4, 2001, age 90, Fort Bliss National Cemetery

MSGT, US Army, WW II, Korea

El Paso Color Camera Club 1956

Photographic Society of America, 1960

El Paso County Historical Society Charter Member

Ralph was an avid photographer and dedicated to documenting the city of El Paso TX as well as his travels throughout the world. His collection consists of some 65,000 slides, dating from the 1950s. He retired from the US Army in 1964 after more than 21 years of military service. Even before retirement, in 1963, Sunland Park NM presented him with a Photography Award Trophy. He was a member of the Photographic Society of America, the El Paso Color Camera Club, and a Charter member of the El Paso County Historical Society, among many other local groups. He is credited with his picture of the exterior of the J. F. Williams House (a Trost-designed house) in the Heritage Homes of El Paso, as well as his images in Photographing the Frontier.