John Andrew & Son photogravures of Edward S. Curtis portraits of Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 84-8
name: label: Photographer
content: Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
label: Names
content: John Andrew & Son
label: Names
content: American Horse, 1840-1908
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Assiniboin; Assiniboine

Sioux
creator: label: Photographer
content: Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
label: Culture
content: A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
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content: John Andrew & Son photogravures of Edward S. Curtis portraits of Native Americans
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) was a professional photographer known for his images of Native Americans and of the American West. Born in Wisconsin, Curtis moved with his family to Cordova, Minnesota, shortly after his brother's birth in 1874. In 1887, Curtis moved again with his father to Seattle in the Washington Territory, where he built partnerships with several area photographers. Around 1895 Curtis began to photograph American Indians in the Seattle area. He joined the 1899 Harriman Expedition to Alaska as the expedition's official photographer and spent the summer of 1900 with George Bird Grinnell on a trip to document the Sun Dance on the Piegan Reservation in Montana. These experiences fueled Curtis' interest in American Indians and their culture and he set out to document every North American tribe before they "vanished." These photographs became the basis for his twenty volume "The North American Indian," a set of books which combined ethnographic descriptions and high-quality photogravures.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Prints (photogravure)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1908
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Part of the Margaret Mead estate, these prints were transferred to the National Anthropological Archives by the Library of Congress through the Smithsonian General Counsel's Office, 1981.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.84-8
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photogravures
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogate for one print available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photogravures
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photogravures made from Edward S. Curtis portraits of American Horse, Oglala; Hollow Horn Bear, Brule; and an Assiniboine/Gros Ventre man. Curtis copyrighted the original photographs in 1907 and 1908.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Curtis photographs held in National Anthropological Archives in the Edward S. Curtis papers and photographs, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 59, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 96-17, and the BAE historical negatives.

The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Edward S. Curtis investigation of the Battle of Little Bighorn (MS 2000-18).

Curtis photographs also held in the National Museum of the American Indian Archives in the Edward S. Curtis photogravure plates and proofs for The North American Indian and Mary Harriman Rumsey collection of Harriman Alaska Expedition photographs.