Edward S. Curtis Collection, 1900-1921

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Edward S. Curtis Collection, 1900-1921

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Photographs documenting the Hopi Indian Reservation from the years 1900-1921.

31 black-and-white photographs (prints).

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Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Department.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6633351

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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...