1953 magazine article Carlsbad Caverns, color photographs

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Selling is a 1953 magazine article about:
Carlsbad Caverns
Title: Carlsbad Caverns In Color
Author: Mason Sutherland
Photos by E. Tex Helm
Color photos taken inside Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico. Some history and photography logistics too.
Quoting the first page “Carlsbad Caverns, which are usually as dark and quiet as the tomb, have stirred with nocturnal fire of late. For photography’s sake, their limestone chandeliers and draperies have been bombarded with light four times as intense as sunshine. The caverns have seen New Mexico’s most vivid flash since the firing of the world’s first atomic bomb near Alamogordo in 1945.
Tex Helm, a Carlsbad photographer, has just finished shooting the caverns in natural color. His photographs inspired this article, the fourth on the caverns to be published in your Society’s Magazine.
The caverns were a relatively obscure national monument in 1924 and 1925 when the National Geographic Society put them “on the map.” Backed by a $16,000 grant from The Society, Dr. Willis T. Lee, of the United States Geological Survey, explored, surveyed, and mapped portions of the caverns and wrote two articles for the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE.
“The most spectacular of underground wonders in America,” Lee called them. “For spacious chambers, for variety and beauty, [the cave] is king of its kind.”
Dr. Lee became the caverns’ first custodian, serving without pay. In his day yearly visitors were counted by the hundreds. In 1952 attendance rose to a record 530,000.
Among the first men to see the caverns were the Basket Maker Indians, who left pictographs on the entrance walls but apparently never explored the pit. Ranchers in the 1880’s became aware of the cave because evening’s spiraling bat flights darkened the sky above the mouth like the funnel of a tornado.
No one explored the deeper recesses until 1901, when James Larkin White, a young cowboy, descended with a kerosene torch and gazed upon hidden wonders.
Though Mr. White’s story was greeted with incredulity, he made the caverns his life’s work and hobby. Years went by before he saw his faith rewarded. In 1924 he guided the National Geographic exploration party, and in 1930 he saw Carlsbad Caverns established as a national park …”
7” x 10”, 17 double-sided pages, 9 B&W and 24 color photos plus map
These are pages from an actual 1953 magazine. No reprints or copies.
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