Description
The Charles Lummis
Photographs include cyanotypes and albumen print photographs from 1888 to 1905. An author,
editor, explorer, and supporter of Native American culture Charles Lummis documented scenes
and people throughout the American Southwest and Central and South America. The bulk of the
collection focuses on Peru, Native Americans in New Mexico, central Mexico, the San Fernando
Mission in California, and portraits of friends and acquaintances of Lummis.