Provenance
The photocopies were donated to the APS by Clifford Lewis III, grandson of Ella Lewis, in 1976 (accn. 1977-1077ms).
Location of originals:The originals of the Breton Papers are now housed at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (Accession no. 976-63, 45-5, 2001.7).
Preferred citation
Cite as: Adela C. Breton Papers, American Philosophical Society.
Processing information
Recatalogued by rsc, 2003.
Related material
The Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61) contain 15 letters between Boas and Breton, 1907-1912, mostly relating to Breton's work for the 18th International Congress of Americanists.
The Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery houses a collection of Adela Breton's watercolors of Mayan archaeological sites in Mexico.
Bibliography
Giles, Sue and Jennifer Stewart, eds., The Art of Ruins: Miss Adela Breton and the Temples of Mexico Catalogue for an exhibition, December 1989 to March 1990 (City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, 1989).