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Description
Photograph of a painting of Charles F. Lummis, by L. Borhell, ca.1918. The man appears to be in his 50's or older. His hair is combed back. He has a dimple in his right check. He is wearing a medal around his neck. Photoprint reads: "After being knighted by Spanish King Alfonso". "Lummis was born in Lynn. Mass., on March 1, 1859. He graduated from Harvard in 1881, where he had published and sold 12,000 copies of his poems, printed on birch bark. In 1884, Lummis walked from Cincinnati to Los Angeles, a distance of 3,000 miles, sending accounts of his progress to the Los Angeles Times, where he was made first city editor on his arrival. The city's population was 12,000 at that time. Lummis also founded the Southwest Museum, which opened to the public in 1914." -- unknown author. "An advocate and promoter of the splendors of the Southwest, Charles Fletcher Lummis was quick to scold the American public about their ignorance of their own backyard: 'We live in the most wonderful of lands and one of the most wonderful things is that we as Americans find so little to wonder at.' ( Some Strange Corners of Our Country, 1892, p. 1). Charles Lummis was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on March 1, 1859, and died in Los Angeles on November 25, 1928. Experiencing the new western territories firsthand, Lummis traveled on foot across the country, recording his observations in A Tramp Across the Continent (1892). This enthusiasm and energy was realized in many other books and articles about the Southwest, including A New Mexico David (1891), The Land of Poco Tiempo (1893), and Mesa, Cañon and Pueblo (1925). The title of this exhibition comes from a series of articles Lummis began in April, 1896 entitled, 'The Southwestern Wonderland' published in Land Of Sunshine, a magazine he edited in Los Angeles, California, highlighting in writing and through photographs the rich cultures and grand natural landscape of the region." -- unknown author.
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image
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. portraits negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs art
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