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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 13104507, member: 8267&quot;]I would start by trying to understand the notations you find on the baskets. If your grandfather went to the trouble of attaching notes, he may have also kept a ledger that would explain his abbreviations, and perhaps provide additional information about each basket. Do you or other family members have any of his papers?</p><p><br /></p><p>Do all of your baskets have catalog numbers that look like this one?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]558798[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If they do, they may be your grandfather&#039;s system. If not, they may come from collections originally in museums or other people&#039;s collections. Museum catalog numbers can be quite idiosyncratic and might be recognized if you contact likely museums.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, it does not look like this particular number matches the Heard Museum&#039;s Fred Harvey collection of baskets. As an example, the catalog number of a Chemehuevi / Fred Harvey basket currently in their collection follows the format &quot;815BA&quot;.</p><p><a href="https://cdm16286.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15086coll3/id/77/rec/1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cdm16286.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15086coll3/id/77/rec/1" rel="nofollow">https://cdm16286.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15086coll3/id/77/rec/1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Heard Museum collection includes baskets that Fred Harvey acquired from an earlier &quot;Comstock collection&quot; as well as from other collectors which might have had a different systems of catalog numbers. But if so, these don&#039;t appear to be described in their current catalog entries.</p><p><a href="https://heard.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15086coll3/id/69/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://heard.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15086coll3/id/69/" rel="nofollow">https://heard.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15086coll3/id/69/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But it could be worth contacting the Heard Museum to see if they might have any information about those of your baskets that refer to Fred Harvey. The more information you can provide them, the more likely you are to get a useful response. For example, if you can tell them approximately when your grandfather may have acquired the baskets, they may be able to check their records for baskets deaccessioned around that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Heard&#039;s website lists this as the contact for their curatorial department -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]558806[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://heard.org/contact-us/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://heard.org/contact-us/" rel="nofollow">https://heard.org/contact-us/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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