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Louis Agassiz Fuertes papers
This record forms part of the Chicago’s Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource project funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art. For this project, the Archives surveyed archival repositories throughout the Chicago region to identify art-related materials contained in their holdings. While the Archives of American Art does not own any of the materials described herein, information about those materials and links to the original repositories have been included when available.
Descriptive Summary
Approximately 100 items of correspondence between Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Field Museum curator of zoology Wilfred Osgood regarding commissions and work for Fuertes’s illustrations for Birds of New York by Elon Howard Eaton (1916). Two other letters concern arrangements for Fuertes to accompany the Field Museum's Abyssinian Expedition of 1926.