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United States. Commission to the Madrid Exposition (1892- )
Created to represent the United States at Madrid’s 1892 historical exposition, this commission gathered reports, catalogs, and exhibits that showcased American history, archaeology, and ethnology during the four-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s voyage. Its surviving publications offer a fascinating window into how the United States chose to present itself on an international stage in the late nineteenth century.
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Catalogo de los Objetos Etnologicos y Arqueologicos Exhibidos por la Expedición Hemenway
by Jesse Walter Fewkes, Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, Spain) Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892 : Madrid, United States. Commission to the Madrid Exposition (1892- )
About the author
This is a corporate author rather than an individual writer. The United States Commission to the Madrid Exposition was formed for the Exposición Histórico-Americana held in Madrid in 1892, an event tied to the four-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s 1492 voyage.
The commission is credited with official publications connected to the American exhibit, including catalogs and the later Report of the United States Commission to the Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid, 1892–93. Those works brought together contributions from scholars, museum officials, and government representatives, covering exhibits in history, archaeology, ethnology, and related fields.
For modern readers, the commission’s books are valuable less as personal authorship than as historical records. They preserve the way the United States government and its experts documented collections, interpreted the past, and introduced American scholarship and museum material to an international audience at the end of the nineteenth century.