The Frederick Monsen lectures

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THE FREDERICK MONSEN LECTURES


The Frederick Monsen Lectures
ILLUSTRATED
167 E. COLORADO ST. PASADENA, CALIF.


Copyright by Frederick Monsen
Hopi Indian Maiden, Arizona





FOREWORD

THE FREDERICK MONSEN LECTURES
ILLUSTRATED


FREDERICK MONSEN, explorer, artist, lecturer, whose twenty years' experience among primitive peoples and in little known lands, together with his ability as an artist and skill as a photographer, has given him a wealth of material that few, if any, explorer-lecturers can equal, is just entering upon his twenty-second year on the lecture platform.

During this time he has delivered more than two thousand lectures, and has appeared before the leading universities, colleges, clubs, and other institutions both in this country and abroad.  More than ninety lectures before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences alone is a record worthy of note, and his lectures in England and on the Continent, given under the auspices of famous geographical and other scientific bodies, attest his reputation as an ethnological and geographical student.

Mr. Monsen's lectures are narratives that tell in words and pictures the many incidents, trials, and adventures of an explorer's life, and bring to his audience in a direct and unaffected way the very atmosphere of distant lands and peoples.



Copyright by Theo. C. Marceau, New York
FREDERICK MONSEN, F. R. G. S. ARTIST, EXPLORER, LECTURER





SKETCH OF MR. MONSEN'S ACTIVITIES
THIRTY years ago, as a member of the United States Geological Survey, Frederick Monsen received his first inspiration of the wonders and beauties of the Great West.  Southern Utah and southwestern Colorado, the field of his first activities, fascinated him, and it was here that he began investigations among the ruins of the earliest American habitations.  In caves high up on the canyon walls, and on the tops of mesa cliffs, many interesting discoveries were made, and he obtained a most remarkable collection of cliff dweller relics.

Next came an expedition into the deserts of California, where for several years, under the direction of the Survey, and independently, he continued his observations.  In 1893 he recorded the maximum temperature of the world in Death Valley.  Three years later his work was to determine the inundation of the Salton Sink.  Then followed a most interesting year with the International Survey of the boundary line between California and Arizona and Mexico.  An independent expedition in Lower California followed, resulting in much new data of this then almost unknown region.  The Yosemite National Park Commission, of which he was topographer and photographer, gave him the opportunity of intimately acquainting himself with the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the following year he again visited the Sierras, also exploring the Mono Lake region and the Ralston Desert of Nevada.

In 1894 Mr. Monsen devoted some months to ethnological studies among the Ute Indians in southwestern Colorado, and the following year entered the Navajo reservation, where he began his Ethnographic Record of the Indian Tribes of Southwestern United States, a work now representing three thousand types of over twenty different tribes, several of which are now extinct.  The best part of the following ten years was devoted to this work, and Navajo, Apache, Hopi, Zuñi, the many Rio Grande pueblos, and numerous other tribes were visited and photographed.  The collections thus obtained make a historical record of the American Indians of great scientific value.

Alaska was visited at the time of the Klondike rush; but Mr. Monsen's interests changed with the advent of the Spanish-American War, which resulted in a journey of observation in Latin America.  Becoming greatly interested in the Mexican Indians, he devoted several months to their study, and again took up the work in 1906–9.  Expeditions to Venezuela, the Isthmus of Panama, and the Canal, of
 which he made a close study during eight different trips, and the islands of Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad, and others in the Caribbean Sea followed and much new and important data and hundreds of rare pictures were obtained.  The Madero revolt brought Mr. Monsen back to Mexico, where his knowledge of the Mexican peon, together with the personal acquaintance of such men as Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Madero, Venustiano Carranza, and Pancho Villa, were of great advantage in the preparation of his lecture on the Mexican Revolution.

These many years of observation and investigation have resulted in the preparation of a number of lectures that tell the story of adventure among primitive people and in little known lands.

Mr. Monsen has not, however, limited his activities to America alone, but has traveled extensively in Europe, lecturing on American ethnology and geography and exhibiting his Indian pictures.  These lectures and exhibitions have been given under the auspices of the most famous Geographical Societies, Museums, and Universities of England and the Continent.



FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, CHICAGO.
Dear Mr. Monsen: I take early opportunity to convey to you the thanks of this Institution for your very excellent lecture, Through Death Valley, delivered in the third course of the Museum Saturday afternoon lectures.

You could not have been insensible of the appreciation of the audience.  The applause which greeted your remarkable illustrations gave testimony of the admiration which was felt for the beautiful coloring of the slides and their realistic effect.

I desire to state that no popular lecturer in the course has brought forth more generous praise or given greater satisfaction.

FREDERICK J. V. SKIFF, Director.

Mr. Monsen has been on the Museum staff of lecturers for many years.

It is safe to say that Mr. Monsen is reengaged by 75 per cent. of the Institutions where he appears.





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THE PANAMA CANAL AND THE ISTHMUS UP TO DATE
THE greatest work of modern times is finished, and it is fitting, now that we realize what has been accomplished, to study the ways and means by which this wonderful dream has come true.  Where the French failed, the Americans have triumphed, and the Canal stands today a monument to the science, pluck, and energy of the American nation.

Now that the Canal is finished, what shall we do with it?  New trade routes must be developed, necessitating the survey of new ocean lanes, and this tremendously vital work must be done immediately; for foreign nations will not trust their ships to the dangers of uncharted seas.  The immediate factor of the Canal, however, is its great importance to our own western seaboard, which, through immigration and cheapened freight rates, will bring a new era of prosperity to the Pacific Coast.

Mr. Monsen has made eight trips to the Canal, watching the progress of the gigantic work, and recording, by means of the camera, every phase of it to the very opening of the great waterway for commerce.

Mr. Monsen has received the greatest praise from Societies and the Press for this splendid lecture both in this country and in Europe.



Romsdalhorn, Norway






The Midnight Sun

NORWAY AND THE NORWEGIANS
SYNOPSIS
THE Norwegian Coast—Christiania Fjord—The Modern Capital of Norway—Norway Developing into a Manufacturing Country—Potential Wealth of Norway—Waterfalls—Making Saltpeter and Nitric Acid from Air—Rjukanfos Falls Develops 200,000 Horse Power—Universities and Museums—The Viking Ships—Sketch of Viking History—The Centennial Celebration in Christiania—Control of the Liquor Traffic—Mr. Monsen Lectures in English at the Handelstands Forening—A Splendid Merchants' Club—A Cultured People—A Democratic King—A Little Story of the Queen—Ibsen and Björnson—Art and Literature—The Bergen Railroad—Tunnels and Fjords—Bergen a Delightfully Situated City—Holdt's Hotel and Hotels in General—One of the Best Administered Cities in Europe—Beyer's Tourist Bureau and Its Unique System—The Hansiatic League—Manufacturing, Shipping, and Exports—The New Norwegian—American Line of Transatlantic Steamers—Stories of Bergen—The Museum—Christian Michelsen, Norway's Greatest Son—Norway's Secession from Sweden in 1906—The New Monarchy—Ole Bull and Edvard Grieg—Norse Hospitality—The Bergenske Steamship Company—On Board the Steam Yacht Irma—Excellent Food—Geology of the Fjords—Hardanger the Beautiful—Waterfalls and Glaciers—Sogne and Naerö Fjords—A Never-to-be-forgotten Night at Gudvangen—Up the Naerödel—Remarkable Mountain Roads—Stalheim and Its Hotel—English, American, and German Tourists—The Norwegian Tourist Club—Traveling at Little Expense—Telephones and Telegraphs—Honesty of the Norwegians—Delightful Balholmen—Loenvand, Most Beautiful of Norway's Lakes—Glaciers and Snow Fields—Kjendalbrae—The Weird Beauty of the Gieranger Fjord—Merok and Its Attractions—The Intricate Norwegian Coast—A New Aalesund—The Famous Romsdal, Norway's Yosemite—Molde Amid the Roses—Trondhjem and Its Kings—The Cathedral—Lofoten Islands—Great Cod Fisheries—The Toll of Life—Herring Shoals—Whales and Whaling—Norway as a Winter Resort—Exhilarating Winter Sports—The Purest Air in Europe—Hammerfest—The Laps—Reindeer and Their Habits—The North Cape—The Solitude of the Arctic Sea—The Midnight Sun.



Mr. Monsen's camp at the base of El Capitan, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona






Watching the race, Oraibe, Arizona

THE LAND OF THE NAVAJO
THE Navajo Indians are one of the most interesting of our aboriginal peoples, and their great reservation in Arizona and New Mexico is part of America's Wonderland.  They are born to the saddle, and live a free, wild, open-air life, enjoying many sports and holding most interesting ceremonies for the cure of disease.  The Navajo people are agricultural only in small measure; but they possess great flocks of sheep and goats and have many ponies.  They have an innate love for the beautiful, which finds its best expression in the Navajo blanket; although their native silverwork also shows great skill and artistic feeling.

The pictures secured in this region are among the best in Mr. Monsen's collection, portraying not only the life and manners of the Indians, but the topography of a country which in many respects is the grandest and most scenic in the world.



Vernal Falls, Yosemite Valley, California





CALIFORNIA
THE wonderful Yosemite Valley, with all its wealth of scenic beauty, is only a feature of wondrous California; the most lovable because the most livable state of the American commonwealth.  But not only in scenery is the Golden State distinctive.  Its delightful arboreal cities, historical missions, semitropical valleys, and salubrious climate make it a paradise by the shores of the great Pacific.  The marvelous development, progressive spirit, varied and unique industries, and delightful resorts are described by word and picture, making this one of the finest lectures in the Monsen repertoire.

Owing to the turbulent conditions in Europe thousands of Americans must look for some new field of adventure and interest, and are turning their thoughts to California and the great West.  It will be Mr. Monsen's endeavor to depict the wonders to be seen and the pleasures to be realized in our own land, under unrivaled climatic conditions.


Camping in the High Sierra




Oldest church in Mexico, at Cuernavaca






Mexican carreta, Culiacan, Mexico

ON THE TRAIL OF THE SPANISH PIONEERS
THE most remarkable expedition of modern times was that of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, whose explorations made known to the world the wonderful stone pueblos of the agricultural Indians of the present Arizona and New Mexico.  The expedition left the capital of Mexico early in 1540, and was nearly two years searching for mythical cities, supposed to be fabulously rich in gold and treasure.  But the El Dorado they expected to find and conquer proved a vain hope; for they found only the villages of the Pueblo Indians, who in many instances live to this day on the same sites and in some cases in the identical buildings their ancestors occupied over three and a half centuries ago.  Mr. Monsen follows on the trails of this and subsequent expeditions, showing the country over which they passed, and the people as they are today.



Copyright by Frederick Monsen
Decorating pottery, Zuñi, New Mexico





EXCERPTS FROM THE PRESS
Note the places where Mr. Monsen lectures and the comments of the following prominent papers on his interesting subjects.  Only extracts from articles can be printed for lack of space.


WASHINGTON (D. C.) POST.
Frederick Monsen, the artist, explorer, the lecturer, has spent the best part of his life out of doors.  During his wanderings in the wilds of the American continent he has won the confidence of many primitive Indian tribes, and has lived their life, studying their customs and strange symbolic ceremonies.  Years of close observation of nature have revealed to him the mysteries of the desert, and have given him an intimate and comprehensive knowledge both of the science and of the sentiment of all the great district from Alaska to southern Mexico.  He talks like a naturalist and a trained observer, sharing with his audience in a direct and unaffected way the wealth of his experiences, and showing by means of his remarkable pictures the wonder places of this great land.  The Monsen lectures convey the spirit of the mountains and the deserts, the sea and the seasons, with simple charm and rare understanding.  And those marvelous pictures, glowing with the life, light, and color of the actual, seem to take the listener straight into the heart of the wilderness and to make him a welcome guest in the camps and villages of its people.


PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER.
Last evening Professor Monsen opened the course of the Philadelphia Geographical Society with a magnificent lecture on Mexico and the Revolution that was a revelation to the large audience that filled the hall.  He told how millions of Mexicans were robbed of their lands. of the merciless slaughter of the Indians when they refused to give up their lands.  Dr. Monsen said Madero led the first revolution of Mexicans in which the whole agrarian class was against the feudal lords.  It was because Madero did not succeed in restoring the stolen lands to the people that he failed and a class revolution started against him because he was unable to keep the pledges that he made when he began the revolution.  … The pictures were magnificent and with the many incidents of personal adventure and stories of the war the lecture was one of the most fascinating and delightful ever seen and heard in Philadelphia.


BROOKLYN EAGLE.
Mr. Monsen gave his closing lecture at the Brooklyn Institute last evening to an audience that filled the hall.  … The lecture was a rarely good one, and the pictures were superb.  … By an invention of Mr. Monsen, marvelous effects, showing the changes from morning to late afternoon, to sunset, to night, and to starlight and moonlight, were introduced, and were a delight to the audience.


CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD.
Professor Monsen's lectures possess the charm of novelty.  They are the actual experiences of a man who has lived for years in the wilds and who understands the Indians better, perhaps, than any other white man.  His pictures are marvelous, perfect in technic, and the composition and coloring are such as only an artist could produce.


NEW YORK SUN.
Mr. Monsen does not lecture, he talks, and he does this in such a perfectly natural way that it is no effort to listen to him.  But if Mr. Monsen did neither talk nor lecture there would be enough to interest in the wonderful paintings he shows on the screen; for they are really paintings, and not the tinted lantern slides we are in the habit of seeing.


NEW YORK HERALD.
Frederick Monsen, the famous Indian artist, whose exhibition is attracting much attention at the Century Club, lectured there last night to the members and their friends.  Professor Monsen spoke entertainingly about the Indians and his work among them, illustrating his remarks with the most marvelous pictures.  … Soft and delicious in color, harmonious in composition, and the most wonderful subjects.  The audience applauded again and again as the views flashed upon the screen.  … Professor Monsen is the first artist to paint on glass for optical projection, and the results show in the color and atmosphere effect secured—no one has been able to secure anything like them before.



Mr. Monsen exploring a cave ruin in Canyon del Muerto, Arizona






Camp in the Desert, Lower California

TALES OF AN EXPLORER
BOTH in North and South America Mr. Monsen's explorations have been rich in peculiar incidents of travel and thrilling adventures.

This is the first of several lectures of intense personal interest which may be described as intimate personal narratives in which Mr. Monsen will take his audience into his confidence and tell stories of weird and wild experiences among primitive people and in little known lands.

The lecture is splendidly illustrated with Mr. Monsen's own colored stereopticon views.


The Old Overland Stage






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TURBULENT MEXICO
TO obtain a clear understanding of the conditions in Mexico it is necessary to know something of its people and their mode of life.  No one has a more sympathetic comprehension of the Mexicans than Frederick Monsen, who, as an ethnological student, has studied them at close range, visited hundreds of their rancherias, and made many friends among them.  Of the fifteen million people that compose the population of the country twelve million are Indians, and it is the exploiting of these natives, the stealing of their lands and forcing upon them the

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 conditions of peonage or serfdom, that is the fundamental factor of the unrest in Mexico today.

Mr. Monsen made his first trip to Mexico many years ago, following it during the intervening years by many interesting expeditions.  Since the beginning of the Revolution he has been with both the Federal and Rebel armies.  The war pictures are original and show the actual conditions of warfare in the field, and the wild and picturesque life of the Indian soldiery.

Mr. Monsen gives the true inwardness of the causes that have led up to the Revolution, and shows how the Mexican nation is working out its salvation by throwing off the yoke of sixteenth century feudalism.


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Copyright by Frederick Monsen
Watching the Eagle's Flight





VANISHING INDIAN TRAILS
WITH the passing of the American Indians from their native condition there is an increasing interest in all that relates to them, to their origin, and to their modes of life before they were disturbed by the influences of advancing civilization; and it will not be long before all their tribal communities, ancestral manners, customs, and ceremonies, will have passed from their lives.  Mr. Monsen was the first artist to realize the great scientific value of a photographic record of these people, and his collection today stands as the most complete ethnographic series of pictures of Indian life and manners in the United States.  The lecture is descriptive of conditions that obtained in the Stone Age when the ancestors of our Indians built their remarkable communal buildings in the valleys, on the mesa tops and in the caves of the canyon walls; the ruins of which bear mute witness to the skill of a people who lived, loved, and died in an age of stone and mystery.  The trails of vanishing Indian tribes are followed through a region the most colorful and beautiful of any within our borders, and the interest is quickened by glimpses of life and manners of the Navajo and Hopi, the present denizens of the Painted Desert region of our Great Southwest.



EXCERPTS FROM THE PRESS

WASHINGTON (D. C.) POST.
Science translated into plain English of today was the groundwork of a travel talk on 'Arizona,' delivered at the Belasco Theatre yesterday afternoon.  Mr. Monsen handled his subject in a classical manner, and aided by his wonderful pictures, he led his auditors through a beautiful country, acquainted them with the curious customs of an almost extinct race, and provoked enthusiasm.
Mr. Monsen's voice, his mastery over his subject, and his personality combined to make the lecture a success.  He described in detail the characteristics of the American and Mexican Indians, and recounted many humorous and pathetic stories relative to their struggles and tribulations in an effort to establish and maintain a prestige for those remaining of what he said was once the predominating race of this hemisphere.



CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER.
The lecture that Frederick Monsen the traveler and scientist delivered at the Cleveland Athletic Club last night was most masterly and gave us an entirely new viewpoint from which to observe conditions as they occur in Mexico.


CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
…Professor Monsen possesses the rare talent of knowing how to entertain and instruct at the same time.  … No pictures ever seen at the Field Museum can compare with those shown on the screen by Professor Monsen.  They were so clear and free from mechanical defects.  … The coloring was as soft and natural as the finest porcelain painting.


WASHINGTON (D. C.) STAR.
Mr. Monsen's delivery is delightful and, with its accompaniment of splendid pictures, holds his audience throughout the lecture.  … Mr. Monsen is not a globe trotter, but a conscientious traveler who has explored and studied the lands of which he speaks, and imparts his knowledge in such a way that it entertains as well as instructs.


THE CRAFTSMAN, NEW YORK.
Access to the intimate life of the people, combined with his own skill and artistic judgment, has given Mr. Monsen a collection of pictures not only of great artistic value, but of absolutely unrivaled significance as historical and ethnological records.





Caracas, Venezuela

VENEZUELA AND THE ORINOCO
SYNOPSIS
THE Caribbean Sea—The Spanish Main—A Great Uplift—The Edge of a Continent—La Guayra, a City on Edge—Marvelous Mountain Railroad—On the Way to the Capital—Unsurpassed Views of Mountain and Sea—Caracas, the Most Picturesque Capital in South America—Quaint Customs and Manners—The Pantheon and Its Heroes—Venezuela History—Bolivar and His Generals—Modern Conditions—Guzman Blanco and His Time—Castro and His Monopolies—The Natural Wealth of the Country—Cocoa and Coffee—Millions of Cattle and No Buyers—Only 2,000 Miles from New York—En Route to Valencia—Revolutions and Their Effect on the Country—Where 6,000 Men Perished—Lake Valencia and Its Beauties—Maracaibo, the Coffee Port—How Venezuela Got Its Name—Porto Cabello—Skirting the Venezuela Coast—Margarita and Other Coast Islands—Pearl Fisheries—The Bocas—Gulf of Paria—The British Island of Trinidad—Delightful Port of Spain and Its Tropical Verdure—The Pitch Lake—East Indians in the West Indies—Embarking for the Journey up the Orinoco—The Steamer That Did Not Blow Up—Sir Walter Raleigh and the Tales He Told His Queen—The El Dorado of the Spaniards—Navigation of the Orinoco—Ciudad Bolivar—Wild Indians and Wilder Negroes—The Famous El Callao Mine—The Jaguar—Wild Life—Birds and Fishes—Alligator Bait—A Narrow Escape—The Gates of Hell—The Llanos—Fauna and Flora—Orchids—Starvation—In Desperate Straits—Down the River—Return to Civilization.





In Jamaica

WEST INDIES AND THE SPANISH MAIN
SYNOPSIS
LEAVING New York in a Blizzard—A Climatic Miracle in 48 Hours—A Summer Cruise in Winter—The Bahamas, Earliest Discoveries—The Cuban Coast—El Moro and Havana—The Depths of the Sea—Porto Rico Our Best Possession—El Moro and San Juan—What Our Government Has Done in Porto Rico—Ponce de Leon and His Search for the Fountain of Youth—Cocoanuts and Other Tropical Products—The Wonderful Military Road—Haiti—Santo Domingo—The Hispaniola of Columbus—First Spanish Settlement in the New World—The Island of Misrule—Showing How the Negro Never Could Advance to Civilization Unaided by the White Man—Barbarism and Voodooism—The Wonderful Beauty of an Island Where No White Man Can Live—Comic Opera Revolutions—Jamaica, Queen of the Antilles—Port Royal and Its History—Pirates and Buccaneers—Morgan and His Crew—Kingston and Other Towns—Attractions of the Island—A Bay Made Famous by Columbus—Over Summer Seas—Passing Through the Bocas—The Sea Fight That Decided England's Naval Supremacy—Barbados—The Most Densely Populated Island in the World—A Bit of Old England—Sugar and Its Manufacture—Granada, an Island of Delights—Windward Approach to Martinique—The Tragedy of San Pierre—Swift Death to 30,000 People—A Chain of Islands—Passing of the Indians—Four Million Indians Murdered in a Hundred and Fifty Years—The Danish Indies—The Attractiveness of St. Thomas—From the Tropic to the Arctic Zone—Home Again to Overcoats and Steam Radiators.



Types of natives, Venezuela




Copyright by Frederick Monsen
Hopi matron at the well





SOME PERSONAL OPINIONS
BOARD OF EDUCATION, SAN FRANCISCO.

We wish to express our appreciation of the admirable lectures given at the High Schools of this city and under our auspices.  As an educational factor, they are beyond any other form of instruction in interest, and the visual impression left on the pupils by your wonderful pictures is one that can never be forgotten.

It is our sincere desire that lectures of high order—and yours certainly are finer than any we have ever heard—may become part of our school curriculum, and with this aim in view we would request your consideration of another series of lectures under our auspices next season.

A. ALTMANN, President.

FRANKLIN W. HOOPER, DIRECTOR, BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

Your course of four lectures before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences was one of the most valuable that we have had in recent years, valuable because the lectures dealt with the country and peoples that are for the most part unknown in the east; valuable because the material contained in your lectures had been gathered by yourself after a residence in the southwest of some twenty years, and also valuable because the illustrations were triumphs of the photographic art and artistic skill.

The attendance on your lectures was large and increased from the first lecture to the last.  We shall be glad if we are able to arrange with you to give a series of lectures another season.

BOARD OF EDUCATION, ALAMEDA, CALIF.

Your series of lectures given here under the auspices of the Board of Education were highly satisfactory.  The pictures are the best I have ever seen, and the subject matter of your lectures was such as to be within the reach of the young people for whom these lectures were intended.  The educational value of both pictures and lectures is unquestioned and especially so since they are on a subject about which little is known.  I am particularly pleased to have had this series by you at this time because I am trying to introduce such supplementary things into our school system and the exceptionally high quality of your work has done much to commend this sort of thing to the Board of Education and the public at large.

I sincerely hope that we may have you again at some future time.

FRED T. MOORE.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS, SAN FRANCISCO.


A new and exceedingly interesting method of education has been tried and proved successful in our school.  It was a series of lectures by Frederick Monsen, the celebrated explorer-lecturer.  Prof. Monsen is an exceedingly interesting character.  His life has been a series of remarkable experiences and thrilling adventures.  He probably has seen more of our great southwest than any other living man.
His lectures were interesting in the extreme.  The pleasant conversational manner of Prof. Monsen, coupled with his own personal magnetism and his ability to describe vividly the wonders and perils of this vast region, relieves the stiffness and tension so common among many lecturers.  He tells his stories in the free and easy manner of one who has visited, seen and appreciated the wonders of this vast natural museum, and his own enthusiasm immediately takes control of his audience.
To every one with appreciation of art, the pictures and colored slides which Prof. Monsen shows are a revelation.  The coloring was beautiful and the effect was further produced by the realization that the pictures reproduced the subjects as they really are, every detail and tint being as it exists in nature.—

From the School Journal.

EBELL CLUB, LOS ANGELES.

In behalf of the Ebell Club I wish to express to you the pleasure you gave in your lecture on 'Prehistoric America.'  Your pictures are the finest I have ever seen.  I wish every one might hear your description of the Indians.  As you have lived among them and understand them so thoroughly your lecture is not only intensely interesting, but very instructive.

CALLA M. KING, President.

HARRY D. KIRKOVER, THE BUFFALO CLUB, BUFFALO, N. Y.

Your work as an artist is as remarkable as your ability as a lecturer.  … Your lecture was the most finished and beautiful piece of work ever presented to our club members.

(Mr. Monsen has lectured at the Buffalo Club every year since 1908.)

PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO.

I have never seen the Press Club so thoroughly interested in any entertainment as in your lecture 'Through Death Valley.'  The remarkable series of views which accompanied your lecture is still an interesting topic of conversation in the club rooms.

A. T. PACKARD, President.




EXCERPTS FROM THE PRESS

CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
Professor Monsen deserves praise for giving the public something new and original.  His lectures possess the charm of novelty.  They are the actual experiences of a man who has lived for years in the wilds and who understands the Indians better perhaps than any other white man.  His pictures are marvelous, perfect in technic, and the composition and coloring are such as only an artist could produce.  Mr. Monsen will be welcomed again.


LOS ANGELES TIMES.
Professor Monsen's entertainment was a complete success.  His voice and manner are pleasing, and his lecture, interspersed with bright bits of humor, amusing incidents of travel, and vivid descriptions of the Indian country, was heartily appreciated.  … The pictures were the best we have ever seen.


SAN FRANCISCO CALL.
Mr. Monsen was frequently applauded, and the audience learned more of the desert and the Indians in an hour than would have been possible under any other circumstances in a month.  Mr. Monsen is not only an explorer, he is an accomplished and talented lecturer, and knows how to impart in a pleasant manner that which he has seen himself.


SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE.
At the Academy of Sciences during the afternoon session of the convention of the American Anthropological Society, Professor Monsen spoke delightfully.  His remarks principally concerned the Hopi Indians and their strange and beautiful nature worship.  … The most beautiful stereopticon slides we have ever seen—beautiful in both composition and coloring.


BROOKLYN EAGLE.
Among the many institute lecturers no one has given more delight to the large audiences that have greeted him this season than Frederick Monsen, that revealer of the secrets of Indian lore, who has transported us by his truthful delineations of the life of primitive people and strange lands, so that we have breathed the very atmosphere in which these marvels of color exist.


STOCKTON (CAL.) DAILY MAIL.
The course of lectures given by Frederick Monsen at the new High School auditorium is attracting so much attention that the building is altogether too small to contain the people that wish to attend, and it will be necessary to give the remaining three lectures of the course in the Masonic Hall.  … The Monsen lectures have been the most successful of any ever given in Stockton, both financially and artistically.  … Lectures that young people will flock to hear must do more than educate, they must entertain, and Mr. Monsen's lectures are so full of anecdote, adventure, and humor, his style of delivery so easy and natural, that one cannot help but greatly enjoy them.


BROOKLYN EAGLE.
Mr. Monsen gave his closing lecture at the Brooklyn Institute to an audience that filled the Academy.  … After the intermission Mr. Monsen projected a number of the most superb paintings, every one of them a work of art, and while these pictures appeared on the screen the Mexican 'Home, Sweet Home' was softly played on the grand organ.  The combined effect was most delightful, and the lecturer was called before the curtain three times to respond to the enthusiasm of his audience.


PHILADELPHIA RECORD.
A new lecturer appeared at the Geographical Society last night who won the immediate favor of the large audience present.  … Professor Frederick Monsen, of New York, talked for an hour and forty minutes of his adventurous life among the Indians.  … His personal narrative held the audience spellbound, while the marvelous pictures shown on the screen aroused the audience to the highest pitch of appreciation.


JERSEY JOURNAL, JERSEY CITY.
Many Enjoy Lecture at Bergen Lyceum.
The high wind and Arctic temperature did not deter 500 people from being present last night at the Bergen Lyceum to hear Frederick Monsen, F.R.G.S., deliver a most entertaining and instructive lecture on the 'Panama Canal and Its Makers.'  … Mr. Monsen, figuratively speaking, took his delighted audience with him across the Isthmus of Panama, unfolding the scenes en route by means of his views and vividly bringing to them by his full and lucid explanations the conditions, character, and international significant feat of modern engineering and American enterprise.








Copyright by Frederick Monsen


The Prayer to the Sun, Oraibe, Arizona
WONDERS AND PERILS OF AMERICAN DESERTS
SYNOPSIS
AMERICAN Deserts in General—The Great Mojave Desert of California—En Route to Death Valley—An Inverted River and a Subterranean Dam—Pioneer Traditions—A Land of Mystery—The Silver Mines of Calico—Tramp Prospectors—A Desert Tragedy—Desolation and Solitude—A Long Time Between Drinks—Desert Graves—Weird Surroundings—The Armagosa and Its Borax Marshes—Strange Mineral Deposits—A Squaw Man's Family—Resting Springs—Wonderful Borax Hills in the Funeral Mountains—Furnace Creek Wash—Exploring Death Valley—Strange Discoveries—The Skeleton Plant—Recording the Maximum Heat of the World—An Extinct Volcano—265 Feet Below Sea Level—A Curious Grave—Sufferings in a Sand Storm—Poisonous Reptiles—Unpleasant Bedfellows—A Voice in the Night—An Immense Salt Marsh—Lot's Wife—Struck It Rich—A Ghastly Find—The Story of Death Valley—Dead Men Lying on the Slopes of Dead Mountains and by the Sides of Dead Rivers—Thanksgiving Day—The Return Trip—A Lean Coyote—Vicissitudes of Desert Travel—A Terrible Animal—Engulfed in a Cloudburst—A Narrow Escape—A Ludicrous Situation—The Colorado Desert—The Overflowing of the Colorado River Into the Salton Sink—Exploring in Lower California—Arrested by Mexican Rurales and What Came of It—The Reclamation of What Was Once the Bottom of the Sea—The Imperial Colonies—The Worth of Deserts.





EXCERPTS FROM THE PRESS

WASHINGTON (D. C.) POST.
Monsen Delivers Brilliant Lecture at Belasco Theatre.
Have you ever seen the desert at sunset, when the wild waste is a sea of crimson and purple and gold, and the great rocks like cinnabar giants are piled up darkly against the luminous sky?  Or have you seen it at night, when the stars swarm like fireflies through the velvety dusk and the mighty hills rear up like black fingers into the heavens?  And have you seen it at noon, when the water holes stare like sunken eye sockets out of the dead gray face of the desert?
These are the things one views, as though one were there, in the most remarkable pictures of the vast Southwest ever presented in Washington.  Frederick Monsen gave them yesterday in the first of his series of lectures at the Belasco Theatre.
Mr. Monsen knows his subject.  He spent eighteen years among the Navajos, the Hopis, and the Apaches.  Yesterday Mr. Monsen took his audience among the marvels of Canyon Del Muerto, where the Pueblo Indians built their dwellings in the niches of the cliffs thousands of years ago.  His pictures of these superb ruins, perched sometimes a thousand feet above the valley levels, were truly wonderful.  …



BUFFALO COURIER.
'The Panama Canal and Its Makers' was the subject of the lecture by Frederick I. Monsen, F.R.G.S., who talked last night before a packed hall in the Buffalo Historical building.  The discourse was beautifully illustrated by slides, over 100 of which showed the results of the great undertaking of the United States in the construction of the Panama Canal.
Mr. Monsen talked from personal experience and contact with the work.  He told of the beginning of the work, when it was started by France; of its failure while being promoted by Ferdinand De Lesseps and the subsequent passing of the project into the hands of this country.
He dwelt upon the builders, those of the nation's greatest engineers who are making the greatest of all artificial waterways a thing of the present and not a dream, as it was first dubbed by the doubtful.  His hearers were enthralled when the theme took in the progressiveness of the United States in gaining, by the success of the undertaking, practically, all of the Atlantic-Pacific traffic.



CHICAGO JOURNAL.
Dr. F. I. Monsen, Noted Traveler, Says President Is Handling Situation Correctly.
President Wilson's Mexican policy was strongly endorsed by Dr. Frederick I. Monsen, explorer and traveler, who spoke at the City Club today.
'Intervention, when demanded by jingoes and men of ulterior motives, several months ago,' said the speaker, 'would have plunged this country into a needless, bloody, and costly war, which would never have solved the situation.'
War Would Cost Millions.
'The jingoes who are constantly crying for intervention because they claim American property and lives are sacrificed, do not see the fallacy of involving a great nation in war, loss of thousands of lives and millions of dollars.'  —March 20, 1914.



CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
His lecture instructive and entertaining, his views superb, his descriptions excellent and graphic.


PORTLAND (ME.) EXPRESS AND ADVERTISER.
It almost seems as though in Frederick Monsen we have found the legitimate successor to John L. Stoddard.  There have been numerous false prophets in the land, but none has had the real, true sign but Monsen.  He has been here two or three times before and has made good emphatically.


CHICAGO EVENING NEWS.
Mr. Monsen deserves praise for giving the public something new and original.  'Through Death Valley' is the most interesting illustrated lecture we have heard in Chicago this season.


SKANDINAVEN, CHICAGO.
Mr. Monsen is a success.  … His delivery is as charming to the ear as his splendid pictures are to the eye.  He will be welcomed again.


CHICAGO EVENING POST.
He is a most interesting lecturer.  His power of description marvelous.  His wonderful pictures—so exquisitely colored—they are the finest we have ever seen.  It was an intellectual treat.




THE PRESS ON MR. MONSEN'S LECTURE MEXICO AND THE REVOLUTION

WILSON'S PLAN 'VIRILE.'
Frederick Monsen Thus Terms His Policy on Mexico.
No finer indorsement of President Wilson's policy toward Mexico could have been delivered than that of Frederick Monsen, explorer and ethnologist, when he spoke last night at the Friends' Meeting House on 'Mexico and the Revolution.'  Mr. Monsen denied emphatically that the President was without a definite policy.  He declared that the Wilson plan was virile, statesmanlike and every bit American; he denounced Huerta as a man weaker than Diaz, yet quite as much a dictator.  … 'Mexico must be allowed to clean her own house,' he said, 'and once the constitutionalists obtain control they must be given a chance to form a stable government.  If they fail, then our policy may have to change.  As conditions are now, every call of right is that the United States should offer no interference.'  … Mr. Monsen's audience filled the fine auditorium and he was warmly applauded, especially for his whole-hearted praise of the national administration's attitude towards the southern republic.—

Baltimore Sun, February 21, 1914.


LAUDS WILSON'S POLICY IN REGARD TO MEXICO.
Frederick Monsen Also Terms Revolutionists Patriots, Not Bandits.
Praising the course of President Wilson and the constitutionalists in Mexico, Frederick Monsen, explorer and lecturer, delivered an illustrated address at the Masonic Temple under the auspices of the National Geographic Society.  Mr. Monsen denied emphatically the claim that the revolutionists are bandits, and termed them patriots instead.  … The downfall of Huerta was predicted by the lecturer.  He said that President Diaz had left Mexico because he realized that his country could no longer be governed by a dictator, but that Huerta has not yet realized that fact.  … He attributed the downfall of Madero to his failure to carry out the promises he made when he began his revolt.  Mr. Monsen told of personal experiences with General Zapata, described by former American Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson and others as a bloodthirsty bandit.  Mr. Monsen said he was the most consistent revolutionist of them all, having never changed his policy since the Madero revolution began. … Eventually, Mr. Monsen said he expects to see the northern part of Mexico a part of the United States, but the change will be brought about by peaceful occupation, not by conquest.  —

Washington (D. C.) Evening Star, January 10, 1914.


MONSEN INDORSES WILSON POLICY.
Lecturer Thinks Mexicans Should be Allowed to Fight On.
The attitude of President Wilson in not recognizing General Huerta was indorsed last night at the opening meeting of the Geographical Society at Witherspoon Hall.  Frederick Monsen, lecturer and explorer, gave a most interesting address on Mexico, and also expressed his views on the Mexican situation.  Pointing on the screen, to the chamber in the National Palace in Mexico City, where Madero was slain at the instigation of Huerta, Dr. Monsen told the story of Madero's last night on earth and the high treason that made Huerta his successor.  … Dr. Monsen warned his hearers not to put too much confidence in reports emanating from Mexico City regarding diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico.  Telegraph and cable lines were under control of the Federals and all dispatches were censored.  Capitalistic interests, he declared, prompted the coloring of dispatches and he advised that the reading public give credence only to official statements from Washington.  —

Philadelphia Public Ledger, November 16, 1913.


FREDERICK MONSEN, EXPLORER.
Warm commendation was accorded President Wilson for his refusal to recognize General Huerta's government by Frederick Monsen, explorer and artist, in a lecture before the American Geographical Society last night.  Mr. Monsen's subject was 'Mexico and the Revolution,' and the hall was crowded with people desiring to hear him.
'Our government is absolutely right in not recognizing Huerta,' said Mr. Monsen.  'Recognition might give his government a little longer lease of life and enable him to borrow more money, but even then he could not hold out for a great length of time.  The attitude of our government has placed us in a very good light with the constitutionalists, who are certain to win.  If it develops that we must interfere and put our neighbor's house in order, the longer we delay the better it will be, for the contending forces are exhausting themselves.
'The destiny of the United States is towards the Panama Canal.  After peace has been established in Mexico Americans will settle in that country in greater numbers than ever before and eventually it will become American, for our people cannot live under Spanish laws.  We are not seeking to acquire more territory, but we will spread to the South because we cannot help doing so.  …' —

New York Herald, December 24, 1913.




EXCERPTS FROM THE PRESS

MONSEN ON MEXICO.
The idea that stood out most prominently in Professor Monsen's two-hour lecture, which was illustrated with beautiful colored pictures of tropical scenery and gruesome battlefields, was that the policy of non-intervention maintained by the United States towards the war-torn republic was the only sane and proper course.  … Professor Monsen predicted the ultimate triumph of Carranza and Villa, whom he characterized as patriots swayed by the most honorable motives.  —

Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, March 10, 1914.


MEXICAN SITUATION.
'The only way to work out the Mexican situation, as I see it, is to let the Mexicans work it out for themselves.  It is their fight, not ours, and we have no business to intervene until one side or the other is exterminated, and then, if the survivors cannot pacify the country, will be the time for us to intervene, establish a protectorate and assist the Mexicans to put their house in order.  Prolonged applause greeted these sentiments of Frederick Monsen, noted archaeologist and explorer, expressed during an illustrated lecture on 'Mexico and Her People,' delivered before an audience that packed the lecture Hall of the University Museum yesterday afternoon.  … —

Philadelphia Record, November 16, 1913.


REAL CAUSE OF REVOLUTION.
Frederick Monsen's recent journey in Mexico, together with his many years' experience in that country, has qualified him to speak with authority and with a sympathetic understanding of the people and the causes that have led up to the condition of unrest that now exists.  As an ethnologist he has studied the Indian at close range, visited many of their rancherias and made many friends among them.  …
Mr. Monsen says the real problem in Mexico today is feudalism, the despoilment of the lands and enslavement of the Indians by the white man; and until these lands have been restored to their aboriginal owners there will be strife in Mexico.  The graphic way Mr. Monsen tells the story of his personal experiences, and the remarkable slides that illustrate the lecture, have made it one of his greatest successes.  … —

San Francisco Bulletin.


SMALL LOSS TO AMERICAN PROPERTY.
Frederick Monsen, the explorer and scientist, delivered an address last night before the American Geographical Society, his subject being 'Mexico and the Revolution.'  He said in part: There can be no peace in Mexico until the lands of which the Mexicans have been despoiled are restored to them.  No one knows better than Porfirio Diaz himself that the awakening nation would no longer tolerate his despotic rule.  He admitted this when he self-exiled himself and thereby left open the way for Madero to Mexico City and its presidency.  Madero failed because he did not keep his pledges to the people, and because he allied himself with partisans of the old government.  The Madero revolt which resulted in the cold-blooded murder of the President and his Vice-president, and elevated Huerta to the presidency, was high treason.  The non-recognition of Huerta by President Wilson was consistent and far-seeing; subsequent events have proved the wisdom of his policy.'  The Professor then told of many incidents of travel throughout the republic, stating that the destruction of American and foreign property had been greatly exaggerated, and while business has, in many cases, suspended, owing to lack of labor, there was little danger to resident Americans and less to American property.  —

New York Times, December 24, 1913.


MONSEN SEES CARRANZA AS MEXICAN VICTOR.
Foundation Week of the Academy of Science and Art was initiated last evening at Carnegie Music Hall with a lecture by Frederick Monsen on 'Mexico and the Revolution.'  Mr. Monsen knows his Mexico and its revolution, and he knew Mexico conditions well enough years before the revolution to predict just what has occurred, though at the time he made the prediction he was laughed at.  Mr. Monsen was introduced to an audience which more than crowded the hall to capacity.  —

Pittsburgh Dispatch, March 19, 1914.


EXPLORER PREDICTS HUERTA DOWNFALL.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 10, 1914.—The downfall of President Huerta and the present regime in Mexico was predicted by Frederick Monsen, explorer and lecturer, in an address before the National Geographic Society in the Masonic Temple tonight.  The speaker praised the policy of President Wilson in refusing recognition to the existing administration in Mexico, declaring it to be 'consistent and far seeing.  … The present war is one of extermination and will continue until one or the other side is wiped out,' he said.  —

New York Herald.



Copyright by Frederick Monsen
Matron and child, Zuñi, New Mexico





SOME PERSONAL OPINIONS

BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
I want to congratulate you upon the splendid set of pictures in your lecture on Saturday evening last.  They were the most beautiful and most artistic that have ever been shown at the Brooklyn Institute.—From Professor Franklin W. Hooper, Director.



STOCKTON (CAL.) BOARD OF EDUCATION.
My Dear Mr. Monsen: I want to express to you the appreciation of the people of Stockton for the course of lectures you have just closed.  It was the most successful course ever given in our city.  The lectures advertised themselves.  Interest grew with every lecture, and at every lecture you faced a larger audience.

It was a new experience for us to be compelled to secure a larger hall for the lecture course.  Masonic Music Hall, the largest in the city, was barely sufficient to accommodate those who desired to hear you.

Again thanking you, both for the School Department and the city, for the great treat given us through your colored views and your graphic word-pictures, I am,

Sincerely,
JAMES A. BARR, Supt. of Schools.



SALMAGUNDI CLUB, NEW YORK.
Frederick Monsen has favored us with his illustrated lectures on American Indians on several occasions, and all the members, artists and laymen, are enthusiastic over the artistic excellence of his pictures and the general tenor of his lecture, or talk.  He has original and common-sense views on the question of the life, habits, and beliefs of the Indian, and succeeds in keeping his audience thoroughly interested.  This Club, devoted to art, principally, is of course hypercritical on all things photographic, and is especially so regarding colored slides.  Therefore, the unanimous approval and enthusiastic reception of Mr. Monsen's pictures by the club is indeed valuable.
Mr. Monsen talks rather than lectures.  His great interest in the Indian whose past, present and future are subjects upon which he talks feelingly and with a knowledge gained by actual experience.  I thank him for all he has done for the entertainment and benefit of the Salmagundi Club.—Edward L. Ferguson, Chairman Entertainment Committee.



PRESS CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO.
If you should want some enthusiastic recommendations of your lecture and views you have only to refer to any of our members who heard your lecture.—President of the Press Club.

A letter from Mr. Arthur Stanley Riggs, F.R.G.S., the well-known author-lecturer:

It may interest you to know that I was in Philadelphia last week, talking with Dr. MacAllister, of the Drexel Institute.  In the course of our conversation I mentioned you, and he at once woke up—you know how quiet and almost dreamy he usually is.  Well, when I saw his interest, I at once asked, 'What do you think of Monsen as a lecturer; how does he please you?'

'Mr. Riggs,' the old gentleman said soberly, 'I have never heard such a perfect, such a finished, piece of artistic work in my life.  His sympathy, his skill in presenting and handling his subject, his play upon the feelings of his audience, and the way in which he had his events happen were so artistically perfect that the lecture is almost impossibly good.  It is beyond me to express it.  I can only say it was perfect of its kind.'

I was naturally much pleased, and thought perhaps you might find his remarks interesting.  I want to hear that lecture myself; so please don't forget to let me know when you are going to talk again.  I'll come if it's in Kamchatka; so will my wife.

With best wishes, believe me, Cordially yours, ARTHUR STANLEY RIGGS.



UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON.
We had the pleasure of listening to a lecture by Mr. Frederick Monsen, delivered at the University of Arizona.  Mr. Monsen is a pleasing speaker, accurate and clear in his descriptions.  The views which he shows with the stereopticon are by far the best I have ever seen.  I have seen many attempts to reproduce in various ways the peculiar brilliancy of shades of coloring of rock and plain and sky, so familiar to every dweller in the Southwest, but none were true to nature except these of Mr. Monsen.  None of his views are exaggerated, but with the eye of a true artist he has caught the coloring and transferred it to the screen.  One who has not lived in the Southwest can hardly realize how accurate are these views.  We hope at a later date to have the pleasure of hearing his entire course of lectures.  Personally, Mr. Monsen is a cultured gentleman whom it is a pleasure to meet.

F. YALE ADAMS, President.





SOME PERSONAL OPINIONS

THE SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
For the past fifteen years lectures have been one of our productive sources of entertainment and there have appeared before our society some of the most distinguished lecturers of the times, but of them all not one has ever left the impression or created the interest to be heard again that your beautifully illustrated lectures have done.

In pictures, delivery and interest there can be no comparison whatsoever with any lectures now before the American people, so far as we are aware, and we have seen the best.  You speak from the heart, with the spirit of an explorer and investigator, and your pictures and coloring are those of the trained artist, as no others that we know of.

Our members' enthusiasm has been so great that their repeated requests for another lecture cannot be ignored, and I shall be most happy to arrange for another evening should your time allow you to accept an engagement.

Your lectures possess a value educationally that cannot be overestimated, and should, it seems to me, prove the greatest worth to all students who are honestly interested in our wonderful country.

I take pleasure in enclosing several letters of appreciation from our members.  They show how you held your audience.  When people are so enthused that they sit down and write about it, something is doing.

Very sincerely yours,
JOHN I. SPEAR, Secretary.



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SAN FRANCISCO.
I wish to express to you my appreciation of your lecture on the Wonders and Perils of American Deserts, which you delivered before the Academy.

I have never seen illustrations that equal your lantern slides.  More than this, you have a real story to tell of a long sojourn on the desert and with its denizens.  I appreciate the great difficulties you must have had in securing your material, and the tact you have shown in gaining entrance into the life of the aborignes.

LEVERETT MILLS LOOMIS,
President.



CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU.
I take great pleasure in stating that I am well acquainted personally with the places and scenes described and pictured by Prof. F. I. Monsen in his lecture on the Great Southwest.  It is difficult for any one who has not visited these regions to form any mental picture of how they look or to realize in any degree what the traveler must experience.

Professor Monsen, in his lectures, states clearly and accurately exactly what he has seen and possesses the faculty of conveying his impression accurately to others.  To go with him in his lecture through Death Valley is next best thing to seeing it one's self.  I wish especially to call attention to the accuracy and truthfulness of the coloring of his pictures.  Only those who have seen the Canyon of the Colorado or the Canyon of the Yellowstone can believe that these vivid colors exist in the West.  The fact is, no artist could paint the scenery of Death Valley without being accused of exaggeration and of conveying false impressions….  Professor Monsen's lectures are clear cut, truthful and accurate, both in statement and illustration.  What more can one say than this?  If I could put it stronger, I would do so.

G. E. BAILEY, E. M.



POMFRET SCHOOL, POMFRET, CONN.
You have given more lectures at this school than any other lecturer for the reason that you are more capable of imparting knowledge, and at the same time interesting and stimulating our students.

Certainly no one can show such pictures as yours.  They are the finest, in their beauty of color and perspective, that I have ever seen.

DR. WM. BEACH OLMSTEAD,
Headmaster.



GOODWIN INSTITUTE, MEMPHIS, TENN.
Last week Mr. Frederick Monsen, the famous Indian artist, explorer, and lecturer, gave three lectures on consecutive evenings for Goodwin Institute, as follows: 'My Friends the Indians,' 'Venezuela and the West Indies,' and 'Mexico and Her People.'

All of these lectures were exceptionally good, both in subject matter and in the manner of presentation, and were illustrated with those marvelous and beautiful stereopticon pictures, which have given Mr. Monsen his unique reputation as a photographer and artist.  Our audiences were delighted and increased each night, until, for the last lecture, all available standing room was occupied.

Mr. Monsen's attractive personality and pleasing delivery, his wonderful pictures, combine to make his lectures satisfactory to the most exacting auditors.—C. C. OGILVIE, Superintendent.





WOMEN'S CLUBS
THE Frederick Monsen Lectures are ideal for Women's Clubs.  Sympathetic and refined, his stories appeal strongly to cultivated audiences.  The pictures that he throws on the screen are creative presentations of the countries he has visited, the peoples he has observed, and the historic features he has studied.  Every Monsen Lecture is an art exhibit, different from all other entertainments of this character.  He is a landscape painter as well as an expert photographer, and his colored slides are painted by himself with all the skill of the trained artist.

Read Mr. Monsen's credentials, and then go over the synopses of the lectures, and you will obtain an idea of the thoroughness of his work and why the American lecture-going public shows such enthusiastic appreciation of his narratives and paintings.

Wherever Mr. Monsen appears he is asked to return.



From the Director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y.
For the past ten years Mr. Frederick Monsen has been one of the staff lecturers of the Brooklyn Institute.  In that time he has presented eighty lectures and has won for himself an enviable place in the esteem and appreciation of Institute members.

It is not too much to say that Mr. Monsen has no superior as a photographer and lantern slide colorist.  His pictures are shown at the Institute alongside those of the ablest lecturers of the world, and they are superior to the best of these men.  * * * Every picture that he shows on the screen is in itself a work of art.

FRANKLIN W. HOOPER.




FROM WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.
Frederick Monsen, explorer; born, Bergen, Norway, 1865.  Educated by private tutors; studied art.  Engaged in western exploration; Geological Survey, 1887; Salton Sea Expedition, 1891; explored Lower California, 1892; Death Valley and other California deserts, 1893; made investigations among New Mexico Indians, 1894–95; artist and topographer Yosemite National Park Survey, 1896; has made investigations among Indian tribes of Arizona, Mexico, California and Old Mexico since 1896; engaged in Mexican, Central and South American travels and explorations, 1906–09; travels and observations in the West Indies and the Orinoco River.  Venezuela, 1909–11; Fellow Royal Geographical Society, England; Fellow American, National and Philadelphia Geographical Societies; Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association.  Clubs: Explorers, Salmagundi.  Professional lecturer on ethnological and geographical subjects.  Artist.  In preparation, an elaborate ethnographic work on the Indians of the Southwestern United States.  Address: Explorers' Club, 345 Amsterdam avenue, New York City.

Owing to lack of space it is impossible to give adequate representation to the numerous column and full-page articles which have appeared in the leading newspapers of this country.

Page articles pertaining to Mr. Monsen's ethnographic Indian pictures, exploration, and travel have appeared from time to time in the following representative newspapers:

The Washington (D. C.) Post.
Washington Evening Star.
New York Herald.
New York World.
New York Tribune.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Boston Herald.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Rochester Herald.
St. Louis Republican.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Magazines:

The Craftsman.
The American Review of Reviews.
Ladies' Realm (London).
The Sphere (London).
Photo Era (Boston).
The Rand McNally Bankers' Monthly.
Associated Sunday Magazines.
American Suburbs.



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The mecca of all tourists in California is the famous Mission Inn, of Riverside, which combines with its lofty, cloistered walls and shadowed, Moorish courts the peace of the old Missions in the days of the Padres.  In such atmosphere one may enjoy all the luxury of a great modern hotel.—
From Mr. Monsen's lecture on “California.”





Morro Castle, San Juan, Porto Rico



Bergen, Norway




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Mr. Monsen uses the Bausch & Lomb-Zeiss Tessar Lenses exclusively in all his photographic work.

Bausch & Lomb-Zeiss Tessar Lenses are ideal equipments for tourists.  Owing to the beautiful corrections, they can be worked at full aperture unlike the ordinary camera lenses.  They give definition way up into the corners and as they are of larger diameter than ordinary lenses, they can be used for exposures on gray days or late in the day when the weather is unsettled.  They are unequalled for making exposures indoors.  The results are sharp, clear and brilliant.

1c Tessar, F: 4.5—primarily for reflecting cameras, speed about three times the ordinary camera lens.

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Full information and sample on request.

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All of Mr. Monsen's negatives are made with a Kodak, on Kodak Film, and developed in the Kodak Film Tank.

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY ROCHESTER, N. Y., The Kodak City.



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