Edward Sheriff Curtis photograph collection, 1906-1930.

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Edward Sheriff Curtis photograph collection, 1906-1930.

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Edward S. Curtis wrote a popular book entitled The North American Indian, published by the University Press of Cambridge. This collection contains the plates for volumes 1-13 and duplicates for volume 12.

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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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...