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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1891

Page

5

Plans for World's Fair Ethnology Exhibit by Putnam

Professor Putnam outlines the Ethnology and Archaeology department plans for the Chicago 1893 fair. He describes a large permanent art and aquaria complex, extensive models of North American earthworks, and a global program to display native peoples through artifacts, housing models, and painted diagrams. The project will include collaborations with Clark University and Harvard, and involve Army Navy officers, consuls, and researchers in Peru Greenland and Yucatan to gather material for a comprehensive exhibit.

Chicago Peabody and Stearns Boston Philadelphia Paris Department of Liberal Arts Department of Fisheries Collins Putnam America Board of Management National Commission On Organization Davis Massachusetts Liberal Arts Messrs Waller Camp Revell Jamieson Hutchinson Profesor Baker Fessor Putnam Franz Boas Clark University Harvard University Army Navy Edward ‘Hompson United States Yucatan Thompson George A. Dorsey Peru William 5. Beebe Peary Greenland Sharp Sheldon Jakson San Francisco United States Bureau of Education C. L. Mevnz Warren K. Moorehead C. Cowan Allen Cook

Chicago plan to link museums by boats and roads

Visitors from central Chicago could reach the grounds by steamboat cable car electric car or elevated railway and drive over shaded boulevards to a planned museum of natural sciences. Professor Putnam described starting with traces of early man in America before the Ice Sheet.

Tobia Pier Chicago Lake Front Atlantic Ocean Welland Canal New York Cincinnati Mississippi Valley Minnesota Rocky Mountains Arctic Tanues Putnam America

World’s Fair Ethnology Exhibit Plans Highlight Ancient Americas

Professor Putnam outlines an expansive ethnological display at the World’s Fair featuring cliff houses and ruined pueblos from Colorado Arizona and New Mexico, Central American stone architecture models from Yucatan, and replicas of temples including the Portal of Pabna. The exhibit will show native crafts and village life without wild West show elements and aims for interdepartmental cooperation with the War Department Indian schools and Latin American collections.

North America Central America South America Tierra del Fugo America Ohio Cahokia Mississippi Valley Egypt Valley of the Nile Serpent Mound Peabody Museum Fort Ancient Wisconsin Minnesota Colorado Arizona New Mexico Mexico Peru Yucatan Pabna Putnam North South Frotesur Putnam Indian Bureau War Department National Museum Bureau of Ethnology William E. Curtis State Department Columbus Curtis

Global push expands study of American archaeology

Fieldwork grows with more researchers than ever before in American archaeology and ethnology. Chicago hosts combined results indicating strong official support at the fair. Special commissioners have spent months in Asia and Africa gathering valuable ethnological material from distant regions.

Chicago America Ben Asia Africa

Obituary notices of Edward L. Alexander and others

Edward L. Alexander, prominent Malden newspaper man and founder of the Newspaper Club, dies after three months illness. Funeral at St. Paul’s Church Malden this afternoon at 6. Press Club committee listed. Also notes the death of Brevet Brigadier General W B Barton and George Dennison Morgan, longtime banker, with brief life details and survivors.

Edward L. Alexander Malden Josiah Lucy C. Alexander Clinton Boston James H. Freeland Collector Beard Alexander The Transcript Newspaper Club Boston Press Club Press Club Franklin Topographical Society J.C. Smith Globe Knowlton Times William F. Murray Herald Walter E. Adams Joseph F. Barker W. B. Barton Forty New York Volunteers Gilsey House New York General Barton Monmouth N. J San Francisco California Theatre J. K. Emmet R.G. Ingersoll R. E. J. Miles Cincinnati Bijou Pippins Broadway Theatre George Dennison Morgan Morgan Irvington John B. Morgan Paris France J. 8 Fullerton U.S.A E. D., Morgan Banking House

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