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Diary

Eva Fenyes' diary reveals details about the family's daily lives including their interactions with significant artists... 

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Sketch

The Fenyes family had strong connections to Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Eva painted the home of her friend, writer Mary Austin... 

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Painting

Eva Scott Fenyes created 14 folio volumes of pencil, ink, and watercolor sketches that chronicle her life and travels between the years 1869–1928... 

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Painting

Eva Scott Fenyes created 14 folio volumes of pencil, ink, and watercolor sketches that chronicle her life and travels between the years 1869 – 1928... 

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Letter, Songbook

Eva Fenyes and Charles Lummis, founder of the Southwest Museum, corresponded about their shared interests...

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Letter

Eva's granddaughter, Leonora Francis Curtin Paloheimo continued the family's support of the Southwest Museum... 

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Photograph

Dr. Adalbert Fenyes is shown here in his “insectorium” in the gardens of Fenyes Mansion... 

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Receipt

Dr. Adalbert Fenyes had his Underwood typewriter serviced at the local Anderson Typewriter Company... 

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Photograph

A member of the family took this snapshot of director D.W. Griffith in the garden of the Fenyes Mansion while he was making the one-reel film When Kings Were Law... 

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Invitation

While the Fenyes Mansion was a gathering place for artists during Eva Fenyes’ life, when Consul Y.A. Paloheimo and Mrs. Leonora Paloheimo moved in...

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