Painting of Charles F. Lummis, by L. Borhell, ca.1918

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Title	Painting of Charles F. Lummis, by L. Borhell, ca.1918
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.
Subject	Lummis, Charles F.
Subject (file heading)	Portraits -- Lummis, Charles F.
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1918
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1918
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Format (aat)	portraits negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs art
Accession number	5267
Call number	CHS-5267
Microfiche number	1-90-381
Legacy record ID	chs-m17319; USC-1-1-1-13893
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-5267
Archival file	chs_Volume98/CHS-5267.tiff

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