Gene Stratton Porter

Limberlost State Memorial
Geneva, Indiana

Gene Stratton Porter State Memorial
Rome City, Indiana

Gene Stratton Porter 1863-1924

Last photograph of Mrs. Porter taken in California, November 1924. Reproduced courtesy of Mrs. Porter's daughter, Mrs. Jeanette Stratton-Porter Meehan of Los Angeles, California.

postmarked in 1980 with a 10 cent 'People's Right to Petition for Redress' stamp

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Gene Stratton-Porter was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some of the best selling novels and well-received columns in magazines of the day.