Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
View of Lummis sitting at a desk with a telephone and papers. A bookshelf and books are behind him. Indian pottery bowls are on a shelf above the desk.
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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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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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Manuscripts
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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Manuscripts
Senator Knowland in Y. C. Hong's office, seated at the desk, surrounded by a large group of men.
mssHong Family papers
