| LC control no. | n 2017023392 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Forester, Laura Pope, 1873-1953 |
| Variant(s) | Forrester, Laura Pope, 1873-1953 Forester, Laura Cordelia Atkinson, 1873-1953 Pope, Laura Cordelia Atkinson, 1873-1953 |
| Associated country | U.S. |
| Located | Pelham (Ga.) |
| Birth date | 1873-01-31 |
| Death date | 1953-02-03 |
| Profession or occupation | Women sculptors |
| Found in | South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection, 1977-1982 : collection materials, Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress (documentary photographs taken in 1977 of Pope's Museum, created by the sculptor Laura Pope Forester at her home near Pelham, Georgia) Spaces Archives website, viewed April 24, 2017 (Laura Pope Forrester, Mrs. Pope's Museum and Garden, aka Laura Pope Forester (1873-1953). Between 1900 (other accounts say 1908 or 1919) and her death in 1953, Laura Pope built an extraordinary garden around her antebellum rural residence. The garden was comprised of over 200 figurative sculptures, mostly three-dimensional, but others bas-reliefs or busts set into or topping the walls and the elaborate arched gateway on the periphery of her rural property. She built her works up on a metal infrastructure composed of found objects such as scrap iron and tin cans, later covering them with concrete.) <http://spacesarchives.org/explore/collection/environment/laura-pope-forrester-mrs-popes-museum-and-garden/> Find a grave website, viewed April 24, 2017 (Laura Pope Forester; Laura Cordelia Atkinson Forester; born Jan. 31, 1873; died Feb. 3, 1953, in Grady County, Georgia) <https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100477410> |
| Associated language | eng |
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