George LaMont Cole

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Dr.Geo.L.Cole Illustrated Lectures
On the Prehistoric People of the Southwest and the
Beauties and Wonders of Homeland
from Original Research

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STREET IN ACOMA, NEW MEXICO


DR. GEO. L. COLE is one of the most successful and entertaining lecturers upon the American platform.  His natural taste for research, his personal experience in field work, his great success in locating the ruins and monuments of a prehistoric race, the results attending his work of excavating in the mounds and buildings, rank him among the foremost American archaeologists of the day.  His discoveries shed light upon a subject of which we, as Americans, know all too little.  His lectures are unique, profusely illustrated with views taken on his successive trips, giving a most real and vivid presentation of what remains to be seen and known of the strange people who inhabited our country in prehistoric times.  While his lectures are intensely interesting from a scientific standpoint, they never get dry and heavy, being relieved by laughable incidents of travel by pack-train, adventures in making perilous ascents and descents to those wonderful palaces in the cliffs, more than 1,000 feet from the bottom of the canyon.  The lecture on the modern Cliff Dwellers, or Pueblos, deals with the home life, myths, religious rites, ceremonies, festivals and sacred dances of these strange people.  The lecture on the Grand Canyon covers every trail for more than one hundred miles of this tremendous gorge, vividly portraying its magnificent scenery.  In each of these lectures the Doctor takes you with him on his journeys and lets you see the things as they are.  Receiving as high as seven recalls in a single season attests his popularity.




The Ancient Cliff Dwellers
Their Ruins and Monuments
The Modern Cliff Dwellers
Their Social, Political and Religious Life, Manners and Customs
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River
The Yosemite Valley



PRESS COMMENDATION

Marion (Kan.) Record
— We thought we knew something about the remarkable people known as the Cliff Dwellers, but the lecture delivered in the city last week by Dr. Geo. L. Cole was a marvelous revelation to us.


Battle Creek (Mich.) Sunday Record
— The second number on the Y. M. C. A. lecture course was a splendid lecture by Dr. Geo. L. Cole, the noted archaeologist, upon the Cliff Dwellers.  The lecture was superbly illustrated by stereopticon views and was of an educational value as well as being of great interest from the point of entertainment.  The speaker has behind him years of study and investigation of the Cliff Dwellers, and the Y. M. C. A. was fortunate in securing his services.


Evanston Index
— Dr. Geo. L. Cole, the well known archaeologist, of Los Angeles, Cal., gave a lecture on the Cliff Dwellers at Fisk Hall last evening.  The lecture was illustrated with stereopticon views from his own negatives.  These views are the rarest and most complete ever shown.  His fine collection of pottery, stone and bone implements, obsidem points, skulls, etc., from the Pajarito ruins, New Mexico, has been secured to the Museum of the Northwestern University.


Davenport (Ia.) Republican
— Dr. Cole, the archaeologist, gave his illustrated lecture on the Cliff Dwellers at Science Hall last evening.  It was keenly interesting throughout and offered much that was new and instructive.



FLUTE PROCESSION FROM SPRING AT SUNRISE



Ypsilanti (Mich.) Ypsilantian
— The lecture in Normal Hall last evening was of intense interest and filled with information rarely to be obtained.  Dr. Cole has spent several years in research in the land of the Cliff Dwellers and he possesses the happy art of describing vividly what he has seen.  The descriptions, together with the superb views from his own negatives, give his hearers a remarkably clear idea of the wonderful buildings and their furnishings, and even of the people themselves, as he exhibits their mummies and skeletons.  Dr. Cole is a fluent speaker and the two hours passed all too quickly.  It is not often that Ypsilanti entertains an explorer so eminent and so versed in the archaeological lore of our country.  We assure the doctor that he will be welcome when he comes this way again.


Logansport (Ind.) Reporter
— A large and cultured audience was present at Broadway M. E. Church last night to listen to the lecture delivered by Dr. Cole on the topic The Ancient Cliff Dwellers. Accompanying the lecture, which was in itself fascinating, were magnificent views of the dwellings of the mysterious people whom he described, and these had the clearness of a personal visit to the ancient habitations of the now extinct people.  It would be useless, in a brief newspaper notice, to try to give an adequate idea of the fascinations of this lecture and anything less than the whole would be to mar a beautiful picture.  Suffice it to say that from an educational standpoint, and that also of high-grade entertainment, the lecture given by Dr. Cole can be classed among the very best.


Pittsburg Leader
— The lecture last evening by Dr. Geo. L. Cole, of Pasadena, Cal., at the Academy of Science and Arts, was received with more than the usual amount of attention and interest.  His subject was the Ancient Cliff Dwellers, their ruins and monuments.  Dr. Cole has made a thorough study of the subject and has given seven years to the work of research among the ruins of these ancient people.  The lecture is unique and original; the views are from his own negatives and are very fine.  The Doctor is a graceful and fluent speaker and was greeted by the largest audience of the season.  At the close, the Doctor received many congratulations for the delightful and instructive entertainment given.  All expressed the wish that he return for another lecture in the near future.


Grand Rapids Herald, Ludington-on-the-Lake
— The third week of the Assembly opened with an illustrated lecture on The Ancient Cliff Dwellers, by Dr. Geo. L. Cole, of Pasadena, Cal.  Dr. Cole is one of the best posted men of the day on American archaeology.  He has had great success in locating the ruins and monuments of the prehistoric race and the results attending his work of excavation among the ruins of the Cliff Dwellers of the Southwest make him one of the most entertaining as well as instructive men on the platform.


Bay View Resorter
— The lectures of Dr. Cole were the most instructive lectures given at Bay View this season, and highly entertaining.  His views are magnificent.  Dr. Cole is a pleasing speaker and tells what he actually saw while exploring the ruins and monuments left by an ancient race of people.


Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph
— Dr. Geo. L. Cole, the distinguished archaeologist of Pasadena, Cal., gave the first of his lectures in the Dauphin Institute Course, Board of Trade Building, last evening.  The doctor has given a number of years to the study of the Cliff Dwellers of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Anzona, and is an authority on this subject.  Free from all technicalities, with a brief summary of the disputed points concerning these mysterious people, the lecturer took up the subject in a practical way and traced the history of the Cliff Dwellers as far as known, giving many striking views of their ruins and monuments, both exterior and interior, their pottery, stone implements, skeletons, mummies, wearing apparel, etc.  The lecture was extremely interesting and highly instructive, and was greatly enjoyed by a large and appreciative audience.


The Northwestern
— The lecture is the result of personal investigation, and combines features of thought and illustration with scientific accuracy.


Grand Rapids (Mich.) Evening Press
— The lecture was of great value and the views very beautiful and impressive.  Dr. Cole talks with the ease and fluency of a man who is thoroughly acquainted with his subject and is full of enthusiasm.  The description of the habitations of these strange folks, the Ancient Cliff Dwellers and those of the present time, illustrated by the pictures, formed one of the most instructive features of this year's work.





PUEBLO INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO

PERSONAL COMMENDATION
Edward Rynearson, Secretary Academy of Science and Art, City Director of Schools, Pittsburg, Pa.—Dr. Geo. L. Cole gave his lecture on the Ancient Cliff Dwellers before the Academy of Science and Art, in Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, last night.  The hall was packed, many of the teachers and pupils from the schools being present.  All were delighted.  The lecture is a happy combination of instruction and entertainment.  I most heartily congratulate his audience wherever he appears.

Samuel Dickey, President of Albion College, albion, Mich.—Dr. Cole has made a profound study of his subject.  His lectures are intensely interesting and of high educational value.  They are peculiarly adapted to school and assembly work.

J. A. Foshay, Superintendent Los Angeles City Schools—Dr. Cole gave his lecture on the Cliff Dwellers before the five hundred teachers of this city.  He pleased and instructed all of us.  I am glad to commend him to the public, and especially to superintendents and teachers, as being helpful in giving desirable information on that important and interesting subject.

B. R. Baumgardt, Secretary Southern California Academy of Science—Your lecture was the more welcome to the members of our Academy for the reason that it was based entirely upon original research.

Carl Swenson, President Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan.—Dr. Geo. L. Cole has lectured three times before the professors and students of Bethany College.  His specialty is so unique, his material so adequate and his style so instructive that every college and school in the land ought to hear him and see his views.

M. H. Reasin, President of Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa.—It has been our fortune to hear many good lectures, but we have no hesitation in saying that one of the most instructive, entertaining and altogether charming lectures that we have had opportunity to attend is the one on the Cliff Dwellers, by Dr. Geo. L. Cole of Pasadena, Cal.

Charles E. Burch, Manager of the Evening News, Grand Rapids, Mich.—The Doctor is particularly happy in bringing his talks down to a level with the average boy and girl.  I know of no entertainment that is more satisfactory from every standpoint.

Geo. Cochran, Late Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, U. S. C., Los Angeles, Cal.—An evening spent under the spell of Dr. Cole's charming treatment of this subject is worth whole months of general reading.  No one who would acquaint himself with the antiquities of our land should miss the opportunity of hearing him.

U. S. Grant, Professor of Geology and Curator of the Museum, Northwestern University—I have listened with much interest to Dr. Geo. L. Cole's lecture on the Cliff Dwellers.  He has devoted much study to the monuments left by these ancient people, and the views he presents and the accounts he gives of his explorations are extremely interesting and instructive.

J. A. James, Professor History, Northwestern University—The lecture was of very great interest to the student of history.  Our students were especially pleased with this presentation.

Prof. T. S. C. Lowe, Pasadena, Cal.—Dr. Cole's treatment of the subject realizes the happy result of presenting the work of the scientific investigator in a popular form.

M. R. Parmalee, Ph. D., Superintendent Schools, Charlotte, Mich.—Popular, scholarly, for an hour and a half, Dr. Cole held his audience spellbound as he took them with him on his exploring trips into the land of the Cliff Dwellers.  His descriptions are so full, and his views so numerous and fine, that one seems to be journeying with him.  We immediately secured him for a second lecture.

Thos. Nicholson, D.D., President Dakota University, Mitchell, S. D.—Interesting and instructive to a high degree.  No better set of views on this subject is extant.

Francis W. Hanawalt, Professor of Mathematics, Iowa Wesleyan University—Dr. Cole is an entertaining and edifying speaker.  We as Americans need the information which he is so well qualified to give.

W. H. Heppe, Pastor First M. E. Church, Mt. Pleasant, Ia.—Interesting, comprehensive and replete with information.  No lecture for many years has been a richer treat to me.  The views are superb.  Dr. Cole being a specialist, having spent years in personal explorations, gives the lecture a glow it could not otherwise have.

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