Acknowledgement of Gift
Annotation
Once the Chavez family officially gave the short-handled hoe to NMAH, curator William L. Bird wrote a memo acknowledging the circumstances of that gift.
Source
Letter from William L. Bird to Rita Chavez Medina (October 14, 1997), Chavez Short-Handled Hoe (Accession No. 1998.0197) Office of the Registrar, National Museum of American History.