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Santa Fe patBy ANN p. CLARK A trip .West a half-century ago brought the Misses Amelia Elizabeth and Martha White to Santa Fe for a visit.Friends insisted that they should have a summer home in the area and found for them an acre-and-a-half site with an adobe room-and-a-half home. They bought the place returning shortly thereafter to develop the property at 660 East Garcia.Miss Amelia White, benefactor to the Indians and to the promotion of archeological research in the Southwest, died at home Monday morning on her 94th birthday, Her sister preceded her in death by a quarter of a century. -Private funeral services are to be held at n o’clock Thursday morning in the chapel of the home with the Rev. Donald Campbell, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith, and the Rt, Rev. C. J. Kinsolving III, bishop retired, officiating. A memorial service is scheduled for Sept. 8. •Bom in New York City, she was the daughter of the late Horace White, editor of the New York Evening Post. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and served, during World War I, as a nursing assistant with the Belgian forces?in France, for which she was ' decorated by Queen Elizabeth of Belgium.It was in 1923 that Miss White became a permanent' resident of Santa Fe remaining active in civic and cultural affairs until her death.Some 50 years ago, Miss White expanded her acre-and-a-half purchase to include acreage beyond the current Camino Lejo, presently the site of three museums, paying approximately 50 cento per acre for the vast grazing property.Miss White’s life interest was the promotion of the welfare of American Indians through legislation and recognition of their art outside the field of folk art.She was instrumental in encouraging good modern Indian work along traditional and in new lines, such as water color of ceremonial subjects.aShe collected extensively the best pottery, silver and textiles of recent centuries, presenting much of it to the -Laboratory of Anthropology and other institutions.She was a principal backer of the Indian Arts Fund, and arranged exhibits for various expositions, one in Seville bringing her a citation from the Spanish government. She was the first to operate a shop in New York to bring the best of Indian Arts before collectors generally.A friend of many Americans artists, including John Sloan, Randall Davey and Gustave Baumann, Miss White donated works by them to museums in various cities, especially Cleveland and Detroit, and gave a complete collection of the block and lithograph prints of Baumann to the New York Public Library in memory of her sister..Miss White was a Fellow of the Corcoran Gallery of Art In Washington and an Endowment Fellow of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Art. -She also was a member of the Academy of Political Science.She donated land for the establishment of the Laboratory of Anthropology, the International Folk Art Museum and the Museum of Navahe Ceremonial Art, Later she gave the land for the Diocesan office and. official residence for the Episcopal Diocese of New Mexico and Southwest Texas. She gave her own estate to the School of American Research, the staff using some of the buildings during the last few years.Interested in children. Miss White donated the ptecqued structure at 55* East Garcia for the Garcia Street Club for boys and girls, operated by the Neighborhood Association. She also gave the Park and Rose
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Tue, Aug 29, 1972
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