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Charles F. Lummis
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Charles F. Lummis at work
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Charles Lummis seated at desk, writing, surrounded by books and Indian artifacts.
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Lummis, Charles F
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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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[Charles Lummis with four of the Del Valle girls]
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Self portrait of Charles Lummis sitting in a chair with four young women of the Del Valle family around him: (1) Del Valle family member (2) Rimpau family member (3) Del Valle family member (4) Charles Lummis pulling the wire to take the photo (5) Possibly Susanita Del Valle.
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Charles Fletcher Lummis handmade holiday cards
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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 F. Lummis : a brief biography
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Biography of Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928), prominent journalist, poet, photographer, and activist of the American west and founder of the Southwest Museum. The biography begins with Lummis' childhood in Massachusetts, where he was rigorously educated by his father following his mother's early death. It then traces his attendance of Harvard, his 1885 transcontinental walk from Cincinnati to Los Angeles (as recorded in Lummis' book A tramp across the continent, 1891), his work as city editor of the Los Angeles Times, his 1886 coverage of General George Crook's participation in the Apache Wars, Lummis' paralysis and temporary blindness, his life with the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, and his founding of the Southwest Museum. References are also made to Lummis' relationships with his first wife Dr. Dorothea Rhodes, Theodore Roosevelt and Boies Penrose at Harvard, Harrison Gray Otis, Leonard Wood, Adolph F. Bandelier, Henry Herbert Knibbs, and members of his "Lion's Den" literary circle. Carbon copy of typewritten manuscript with handwritten notes.
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Photograph Album from Charles F. Lummis to Susanita Del Valle, 1888
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75 hand-numbered leaves measuring 5 x 8 inches, with 83 cyanotype photographs, cloth with half-calf, rear hinge cracked. Inscribed to Susanita del Valle from Charles Lummis and dated February 3, 1888. Contains two manuscript poems dedicated to Susanita in Lummis' hand on verso of two leaves. One poem signed by Lummis.
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