Allen H. Eaton (1881–1970) was an American crafts scholar and politician who became a staff member of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.
His 1919 Buffalo, New York exhibition Arts and Crafts of the Homelands drew almost fifty thousand visitors.
[2] After the death of John C. Campbell in 1919 he took his place as field secretary for the Russell Sage Foundation, which resulted later in his Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands in 1937.
In 1942 he was shocked at the treatment of Japanese-Americans through Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, and resolved to do something to help the internees remind themselves and the rest of America of their contributions.
He was determined to survey them for his work on American crafts however and visited several centers himself, impressed especially by miniature "gardens" and "home" decorations made from scrap and other local materials.