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Fred Harvey (Firm) print view role Collector dates 1890-1910 city Santa Fe state NM other cities Kansas City, MO; Chicago, IL; Albuquerque, NM; sex n/a historical notes The Fred Harvey Company incorporated many facets of the hospitality industry including hotels and restaurants before it embarked on the distribution of Native American Arts in the 1902. In 1902, and at the urging of the founder’s daughter and Native American art collector, Minnie Harvey Huckel, The Fred Harvey Company began to purchase, display and sell Native American Art via its Indian Department. The Indian Department’s were housed in several of the Harvey hotels. The Fred Harvey Company collected pottery, basketry, textiles, Kachina dolls, and beadwork, which were sold to major collectors and American and European museums. The Smithsonian, American Museum of Natural History, Chicago's Field Museum, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Heard Museum in Phoenix, and the Denver Art Museum are all repositories of Fred Harvey Company collections. The Fred Harvey Company under the leadership of J F Huckel and its agent, Herman Schweizer, purchased entire collections including Marietta Wetherill’s Navajo collection. Additionally, The Company purchased several collections from Navajo trader John Lorenzo Hubbell, and the collection of New Mexico’s Governor L. Bradford Prince which incorporated native pottery, clothing, and Hispanic Santos. decades of activity 1890-1900 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:28 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Heard Museum Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives Fred Harvey Company collections see details... Cline Library, Northern Arizona University Special Collections & Archives Department Fred Harvey Photograph Collection, NAU.PH.95.44 see details... Cline Library, Northern Arizona University Special Collections & Archives Department Fred Harvey Company Collection, 1900-1996 see details... University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona Fred Harvey hotels collection, 1896-1945 see details... Heard Museum Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives Fred Harvey Company Association files, ca. 1890-ca. 1950 see details... Heard Museum Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives Fred Harvey Company photograph collection, ca. 1900-ca. 1950 see details... Heard Museum Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives Fred Harvey Company ephemera, ca. 1900-1975. see details... see also: Huckel, Minnie Harvey Huckel, John Frederick Harvey, Katherine Schweizer, Hermann «  back