The Larry Ford Collection

Larry Ford

Dr. Ford was a well-respected geographer who traveled extensively and used his keen eye for landscapes to chronicle important aspects of American and World geography and history. We present Dr. Ford's photo collection as monument to his brilliant career, and an enduring legacy to his power as an educator and mentor.

Read: A Tribute to Larry Ford. Maurizio Antoninetti, Sarah Champion, Zia Salim, Brenda Kayzar, Daniel D. Arreola and Norman Carter Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Vol. 72 (2010), pp. 73-90 (18 pages)

The Larry R. Ford photo gallery includes (in October 2019) an tiny sample of digital reproductions picked at random from the photographic slide collection created by Larry R. Ford over several decades.

This web page functions as a proof-of-concept means to present a representative sample of Dr. Ford's collection of photographic slides. Images are from several continents and many locations within the United States.

We hope to secure funding to digitize the entire collection, which we estimate to number as many as 10,000

Click on the link below to open the photo gallery. Click on individual photos to activate an information side-bar featuring captions, information about the image, and for some images, an interactive map indicating approximate location of the photo.

Photo Gallery

Thank you Jan Ford for your kind assistance and permission to reproduce and share Larry's photographic collection.

Photo of numerous slides scattered on a light table.

Sample Images

Brick building with a vertical sign indicating a chop suey restaurant

Chinese Restaurant.
Portland, Oregon. 1983

Row Housing

Chicago, Illinois

Photo of a sign "Public Market" with a orange colored sunset in the background.

Sunset at Public Market

Seattle, Washington

Photo of a scene in Moscow with a large brick tower building on the left, and a street along a curving river on the right.

Vodovzvodnaya Bashnya
Moscow, USSR

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