Charles F. Lummis - THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION: Commemorating His Tramp Across the Continent

Charles F. Lummis THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION Commemorating His Tramp Across the Continent

Edited by Daniela P. Moneta

Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, 1985

Softcover, 83 pages, new condition

Contents

Foreword by Patrick T. Houlihan

Preface by Bernard L. Fontana

The Exhibition by Daniela P. Moneta

Charles Fletcher Lummis, 1859-1928 by John F, Becker

A Tramp Across the Continent by Daniela P. Moneta

Lummis as a Photographer by Patrick T. Houlihan & Carolee Campbell

Lummis and Ethnography by Peter Welsh

Lummis and Archaeology by Steven LeBlanc

Artifacts from the Lummis Collection

Lummis in California Life by Daniela P. Moneta and Patricia A. Butz

Lummis and Mexican-American Folklore by Michael Heisley

Landmarks Club by Patricia A. Butz

Sequoya League by Daniela P. Moneta

Charles Lummis was five when the Civil War ended and twenty-two when he went to discover for himself the land on the “left side of the continent.”  Lummis walked the entire distance from Ohio to California in 1892 discovering this great country and spending time with its people. 

More than any other single individual, it was this extraordinary explorer, ethnologist, linguist, photographer, journalist, editor, librarian, curator, folklorist, musicologist, and conservationist who molded the popular public perception of the American Southwest and Southern California. 

Lummis was founder of the Southwest Museum in Pasadena, California.  In honor of the one hundredth anniversary of Lummis’ arrival in Los Angeles, the Southwest Museum selected 94 photographs for this 1985 exhibition, 50 of which are reproduced in this catalog.