From the Fray Angelico Chavez History Library
Correspondence related to the Panama-California Exposition mostly to and from Edgar Lee Hewett, the Exposition’s Director of Exhibits.
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1911/11/04 Letter from D.C. Collier to Edgar Lee Hewett from Washington, D.C. re invitation to become director of Archaeology and Anthropology exhibits at Panama-California Exposition
1911/12/09 Letter from D.C. Collier to Edgar Lee Hewett re $500 advance
1911/12/14 Letter from Edgar Lee Hewett to D.C. Collier “the Executive committee has approved of our arrangement”, Lummis
1912/02/09 Letter from D.C. Collier (in Washington, D.C.) to Edgar Lee Hewett (in Guatemala) re Hrdlicka, Holmes, Walcott, “Senate committee today voted down our resolution”
1912/08/07 Letter from Edgar Lee Hewett to D.C. Collier New Mexico commission favors exhibiting at Exposition, antiquities and history
1912/12/10 Letter from Edgar Lee Hewett to D.C. Collier re Santa Fe Railway exhibit at Exposition, Studebaker, farm implements, Smithsonian, foreign exhibits, Hawaii, native music and ceremonies
1912/12/16 Letter from Edgar Lee Hewett to D.C. Collier re setting aside one building for educational exhibits
1914/06/30 Letter from W. H Holmes to Edgar Lee Hewett re House Group Models entrusted to Dr Hough
1914/07/16 Letter from Edgar Lee Hewett? to Neil Judd re Palenque Cross, Tikal tablet, Palenque sanctuary, Holmes, casts from Guatemala,
1914/07/27 Letter from W. H Holmes to Edgar Lee Hewett re sketches of pueblo ruin models for Exposition, Palenque sanctuary, Labna door, Serpent Columns, Chichen, Old World antiquities
1914/09/02 Letter from W. H Holmes to Edgar Lee Hewett re exhibit items, El Castillo models, shipping, Adams, Hrdlicka, Nusbaum
1914/10/02 Letter from W. H Holmes to Edgar Lee Hewett re shipment, Castillo, Serpent Column, Hrdlicka
1914/10/02 Letter from Edgar Lee Hewett to W. H Holmes re first shipment is through, dimensions of bases for El Castillo and the Palace at Uxmal
1914/10/07 Letter from Edgar Lee Hewett to W. H. Holmes re first carload of material from National Museum arrived; need rest of Central American models, panels, etc. Invites Holmes to speak in November.
1914/10/07 Letter from Edgar Lee Hewett to W. H Holmes re shipping, Central American tablets and models, Palenque Cross, House of Governor, Feathered Serpent Portal, Tikal woodcarving, tablets from the Palenque Piers, Palenque tablet, Sun Mask, large Tablet of Inscriptions
1914/10/12 Letter from Hrdlicka to Edgar Lee Hewett re proposal for Hrdlicka to give a lecture; illumination of large wall portraits; first consignment arrived for exhibits; Hrdlicka’s article “The Most Ancient Skeletal Remains of Man.”
1914/10/18 Letter from Hewett to Holmes re unpaid bills, Central American material hasn’t arrived.
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1915/1/26 Letter from Hrdlicka to Rice/Hewett return box sent to wrong address; printing my catalogue; Thompson, Hewett
1915/1/27 Letter from Hrdlicka to Hewett Dr Thompson’s detail; my lecture tour; articles on exposition; fear of earthquakes; my charts.
1915/2/10 Letter from Holmes to Hewett re allotments, expenditures, Hrdlicka, Jdge McFie, Dean West, Dr. Hough
1915/2/16 Letter from Hewett to Holmes re account balance, cast of Quirigua monument
1915/2/16 Letter from Hewett to Holmes re account balance, cast of Quirigua monument
1915/2/25 Letter from Holmes to Hewett re Hrdlicka, Adams, use of funds
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1915/6/3 Letter from Hrdlicka to Hewett re Dr. Schuck’s account
1915/6/8 Letter from Hewett to Hrdlicka re accounts of Dr Schuck
1915/6/11 Letter from Hrdlicka to Edgar Lee Hewett
1915/6/22 Letter from Hewett to Hrdlicka re Dr Thompson, Professor Holmes, Boas
1915/07/29 Letter from W. H Holmes to Edgar Lee Hewett re extra pay for Mr Adams, cast of a stela for the National Museum, funds for illustrations for Hewett’s article in Art and Archaeology.
1915/07/31 Letter from Holmes to Hrdlicka re funding for needed work; Rathbun re laboratory equipment, moved laboratory; interest in Anthropology
1915/08/26 Letter from Hewett to Holmes re final settlement, Rathbun, Adams, stela cast promised.
1915/09/13 Letter from W. H Holmes to Edgar Lee Hewett re exposition finances, the Smithsonian exhibit, and engravings for Hewett’s article in the coming (Nov, 1915) issue of Art and Archaeology. Mention of Dr. Mitchell Carroll, Managing Editor of the journal Art and Archaeology. Handwritten note at bottom by Holmes.
1915/09/20 Letter from E. L. Hewett to W. H Holmes re note of 13th, Carroll article, closed Smithsonian accounts, visit to Washington.
