| Fred Harvey (Firm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1890-1910 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | Santa Fe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | NM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Kansas City, MO; Chicago, IL; Albuquerque, NM; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | n/a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
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. |
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| decades | 1890-1900 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| research links |
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