Figures
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Figure a
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Antiquities Act author Edgar Lee Hewett in 1898 as the first President
of New Mexico Normal University.
(Photo courtesy of the Museum of New Mexico, Negative No. 7324.)
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Antiquities Act author Edgar Lee Hewett in 1898 as the first President
of New Mexico Normal University.
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Figure b
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In 1900 Iowa Congressman Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (left) introduced
the first bill to protect antiquities on federal land, just a few months
before he was appointed to a vacancy in the Senate. He and Iowa’s
powerful senior Senator, William Boyd Allison (right), are shown preparing
to go to the State Capitol in Des Moines where they were reelected to
the Senate by the Iowa legislature.
(Photo courtesy of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Negative No. 6953.)
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In 1900 Iowa Congressman Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (left) introduced
the first bill to protect antiquities on federal land, just a few months
before he was appointed to a vacancy in the Senate. He and Iowa’s
powerful senior Senator, William Boyd Allison (right), are shown preparing
to go to the State Capitol in Des Moines where they were reelected to
the Senate by the Iowa legislature.
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Figure c
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Cora Whitford Hewett, whose tubercular condition required summer rest
in New Mexico, serendipitously helped to focus her husband's attention
on archaeology, especially the ruins of the Pajarito Plateau.
(Photo by Luft's Chicago Photo Car., courtesy of the museum of New Mexico, Negative No. 7,392.)
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Cora Whitford Hewett, whose tubercular condition required summer rest
in New Mexico, serendipitously helped to focus her husband's attention
on archaeology, especially the ruins of the Pajarito Plateau.
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Figure d
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Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior from 1898 to 1907, strongly
supported the efforts to pass antiquities legislation.
(Photo of the official portrait of Secretary Hitchcock by William Merritt Chase, courtesy of the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum.)
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Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior from 1898 to 1907, strongly
supported the efforts to pass antiquities legislation.
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Figure e
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Frederic Ward Putnam (right), Curator of the Peabody Museum at Harvard
University from 1874 to 1909 (and Honorary Director thereafter until his
death in 1975), provided valuable leadership to both the scientific and
anthropological communities of the nation. He served on every committee
to promote antiquities legislation from 1900 through 1906, For many years
he offered the only doctoral training in archaeology in the country. He
is shown here consulting with one of his earliest students, George Byron
Gordon (left) a Maya specialist who later became directory of the University
Museum in Philadelphia.
(Photo courtesy of the Peabody, Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Negative No. N28714. Copyright: President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 2000.)
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Frederic Ward Putnam (right), Curator of the Peabody Museum at Harvard
University from 1874 to 1909 (and Honorary Director thereafter until his
death in 1975), provided valuable leadership to both the scientific and
anthropological communities of the nation. He served on every committee
to promote antiquities legislation from 1900 through 1906, For many years
he offered the only doctoral training in archaeology in the country. He
is shown here consulting with one of his earliest students, George Byron
Gordon (left) a Maya specialist who later became directory of the University
Museum in Philadelphia.
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Figure f
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Binger Hermann, Commissioner or the General Land Office from 1897 to 1903,
protected many archaeological sites by temporary withdrawal of federal
land.
(Photo by Peter Britt, courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society, Negative No. CN020673.)
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Binger Hermann, Commissioner or the General Land Office from 1897 to 1903,
protected many archaeological sites by temporary withdrawal of federal
land.
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Figure g
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William Afton Richards, Commissioner of the General Land Office from 1903
to 1907, initiated the final campaign to obtain antiquities legislation
in 1904 when he asked Edgar Lee Hewett to prepare a report on the ruins
in the Southwest.
(Photo courtesy of the Wyoming State Archives, Negative No. 5568.)
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William Afton Richards, Commissioner of the General Land Office from 1903
to 1907, initiated the final campaign to obtain antiquities legislation
in 1904 when he asked Edgar Lee Hewett to prepare a report on the ruins
in the Southwest.
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Figure h
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William Henry Holmes, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1902
to 1909, provided the support that enabled Edgar Lee Hewett to spearhead
the drive to pass antiquities legislation.
(Photo by De Lancey Gill, 14 February 1925, courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Portraits Negative No. 45–a–1.)
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William Henry Holmes, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1902
to 1909, provided the support that enabled Edgar Lee Hewett to spearhead
the drive to pass antiquities legislation.
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Figure i
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University of Michigan classicist Francis Willey Kelsey (left) Secretary
of the Archaeological Institute of America and after 1907 its President,
played an important coordinating role in the lengthy campaign to pass
antiquities legislation. He is shown here on the balcony of a hotel in
Pompeii, Italy, in 1892 with an artist (Lugue, right) who painted recreations
of ancient Pompeiian interiors. Kelsey was visiting August Mau, whose
Pompeji in Kunst und Leben he translated into English (Mau 1899).
(Photo courtesy of the Archives of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Negative No. K 128.)
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University of Michigan classicist Francis Willey Kelsey (left) Secretary
of the Archaeological Institute of America and after 1907 its President,
played an important coordinating role in the lengthy campaign to pass
antiquities legislation. He is shown here on the balcony of a hotel in
Pompeii, Italy, in 1892 with an artist (Lugue, right) who painted recreations
of ancient Pompeiian interiors. Kelsey was visiting August Mau, whose
Pompeji in Kunst und Leben he translated into English (Mau 1899).
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Figure j
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Iowa Congressman John Fletcher Lacey, one of the “towering figures”
in the nation’s conservation movement, introduced Hewett’s
antiquities bill in the House of Representatives and secured its passage
in early June 1906.
(Photo courtesy of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Negative No. 291.)
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Iowa Congressman John Fletcher Lacey, one of the “towering figures”
in the nation’s conservation movement, introduced Hewett’s
antiquities bill in the House of Representatives and secured its passage
in early June 1906.
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Figure k
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Alexander Mitchell Carroll, Associate Secretary of the Archaeological
Institute of America and after 1908 its Secretary was able to monitor
the progress of the various antiquities bills because of his presence
in the nation’s capital as Professor of Classics at George Washington
University.
(Photo courtesy of the University Archives of the George Washington University.)
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Alexander Mitchell Carroll, Associate Secretary of the Archaeological
Institute of America and after 1908 its Secretary was able to monitor
the progress of the various antiquities bills because of his presence
in the nation’s capital as Professor of Classics at George Washington
University.
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Figure l
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Colorado Senator Thomas MacDonald Patterson sponsored the Senate version
of both Congressman Lacey’s Antiquities bill and Congressman Hogg’s
Mesa Verde National Park bill.
(Photo courtesy of the Colorado Historical Society, Negative No. F–8392, S0025 443.tif.)
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Colorado Senator Thomas MacDonald Patterson sponsored the Senate version
of both Congressman Lacey’s Antiquities bill and Congressman Hogg’s
Mesa Verde National Park bill.