Wetherill
A History of Discovery
Anasazi Heritage Center
The Anasazi Heritage Center is a federal museum, research center,
and curation facility that introduces visitors to Four Corners
prehistory. Approximately three million records, samples, and
artifacts from public lands throughout southwestern Colorado form
the Center's collection. The Center is also the curation facility
for the Wetherill Family archives. Since initiation by the family
approximately 15,000 documents and artifacts of historical
significance in 15 accessioned collections have been donated by
family members and other individuals interested in preserving
information about the early years of archaeology in the Four
Corners. The Wren and Tom Wetherill Donation contained a photo album
by
Fredrick
H.Chapin. He was Among the people who stayed with the Wetherills
during 1889 and 1890 and explored the cliff-dwellings was a
mountaineer, photographer, and author. He described the landscape
and ruins in an 1890 article and later in a 1892 book, The Land of
the Cliff-Dwellers, which he illustrated with hand drawn maps and
personal photographs.
Click here to view pictures from the Chapin Photo Album.
WETHERILL ARCHIVES
Box Labels and Inventories
2000.14- Mason Family Donation
2000.15-Pat Chouinard Donation
2000.19-Wren and Tom Wetherill Donation
2001.02- Wetherill-Eaton Donation
2001.18-William Wetherill Donation
2002.01- Ann Owen Donation
20003.22- Wetherill Symposium 1998
2003.23-Ken Douthett Donation
2003.35-William Wetherill Donation
2004.01-Harvey Leake Donation
2004.09-Fred Blackburn Donation
2004.84-Jimmy Shaffner Donation
2005.38-Jefferson County Open School Donation
2005.32-Gloria Kent Donation
2006.07-Celia E. Wetherill Donation
2007.06-Julia Johnson [Wetherill/Grand Gulch] Donation
Wetherill Archives
Arrow Quiver collected by the Wetherill's at Cliff palace abt. 1888. Al Wetherill Collection.
Victoria Atkins Supervisory Interpretive Specialist, Anasazi Heritage Center.
LouAnn Jacobson, Manager of the Anasazi Heritage Center and Canyons of the Ancients National Monument