Edward S. Curtis photogravure plates and proofs for The North American Indian

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Edward S. Curtis photogravure plates and proofs for The North American Indian

1899-1927; circa 1980

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.080

The Edward S. Curtis photogravure plates and proofs for The North American Indian include photogravure printing plates and associated proofs made from Curtis photographs and used in the publication of The North American Indian volumes 1-9 and 12-19. The bulk of the images are portraits, though there are also images of everyday items, ceremonial artifacts, and camps.

96 Photomechanical prints (photogravure proofs); 184 Printing plates (copper printing plates)

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658136

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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Curtis, Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952

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Edward Sheriff Curtis, American photographer and ethnologist, was born near Whitewater, WI, in 1868 and grew up in Seattle, WA. Fascinated with the Indians and their way of life he embarked on lifelong career dedicated to presenting "the very spirit of the Indian peoples" in photographs, film, recordings and print. George Bird Grinnell, an authority on Indians, appointed him Official Photographer to the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899. Curtis' dream of a comprehensive written and photographic...