Edward S. Curtis Photograph Collection 1906

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Edward S. Curtis Photograph Collection 1906

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Collection contains toned, platinum prints (9) by Edward S. Curtis of Southwestern Indian subjects.

1 box (9 photographic prints, 7.75 x 6 (image) mounted on paper 13.5m x 10 in.)

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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...