Charles F. Lummis : a brief biography | Collections | The Huntington

Charles F. Lummis : a brief biography | Collections | The Huntington

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Hector Alliot and Charles F. Lummis portraits
Visual Materials
Contents: Black-and-white portrait of Dr. Hector Alliot, a professor of Art History at USC, the first curator for the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute (1901), and the Director of the Soutwest Museum (1909) founded by Charles Lummis; Black-and-white photograph of Charles F. Lummis sitting at his desk writing (Copyright 1902. By C.F. Lummis.1337). C.F. Lummis portrait transferred from Samuel L. Kreider papers [mssKreider papers].
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Charles Lummis letters
Manuscripts
Sixteen of the seventeen letters are addressed to Charles Lummis. The authors include: Anthropologist Adolph Bandelier (written from Bolivia), writer Ella Higginson, historian and author J. Franklin Jameson (asking Lummis to write an article on Mexico), Lummis' second wife Eva, Henrietta Lungren (wife of Southwest artist Fernand Lungren), surgeon, ethnographer, and linguist Washington Matthews (about his book Navajo legends), author Grace Ellery Channing Stetson (and wife of artist Charles Stetson), Wells Fargo & Company president John J. Valentine (regarding U.S. politics), and stage actress Louise Wakelee Elliott. There is one letter by Charles Lummis to his wife Eve. This letter was written in 1896 while he was in Mexico.
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Charles Fletcher Lummis handmade holiday cards
Visual Materials
Two handmade photographic holiday card booklets for 1911 and 1924, as well as four additional greeting card postcards, from Charles Fletcher Lummis, dated 1921, 1926, and 1927, with handwritten inscriptions by Lummis and captioned photographs of Lummis, his family, and his home, El Alisal, in Los Angeles, California. The earliest card, a bound 1911 New Year booklet, inscribed to Clara and Robert Burdette, contains 18 cyanotypes including multiple images of Lummis's children, especially his son Jordan Lummis (known as Quimu), and El Alisal, as well as reproductions of portraits of Lummis as a boy and young man and a reproduction of a drawing of Francisco Amate. A similar bound holiday booklet, inscribed to "Ellarine" Ironside (Jeanne Ironside) in 1924 contains 6 photographs (4 cyanotypes and 2 photomechanical reprints). Four single cards, all with photomechanical reprints, are inscribed to Ellarine, depicting the following subjects: portrait of Lummis, ca. 1921; Lummis Caracol Tower at the Southwest Museum, 1926; portrait of Lummis, 1927; and Lummis in New Mexico with singer Tsianina and Santiago Naranjo of the Santa Clara Pueblo, undated (ca. 1926).
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letters
Manuscripts
HM 82390 - Letter by Charles Fletcher Lummis to Georgina Jones (Mrs. John Percival Jones - 1916, March 26) on The Southwest Society letterhead. With a printed poem by Lummis entitled "A Toast to the Absent" inscribed to Mrs. John Percival Jones (1916, March 22).
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Lummis, Charles F
Manuscripts
Correspondence regarding Charles Lummis, El Alisal, and the Southwest Museum. Correspondents include California State Senator John Phillips, Harry Chandler, Jacob Baum, L. D. Hotchkiss, and R. W. Trueblood. File of L.D. Hotchkiss, R.W. Trueblood, and Jacob Baum.
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My Friend Will / by Charles F. Lummis
Manuscripts
Inscribed by Chas. F. Lummis to Purd B. Wright and Purd Junior, 1915; with the Purd B Wright Jr. bookplate pasted down to inside front cover. Spine damaged with part missing.
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