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
1914/07/16   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 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

More to come!