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Description: This image was taken c. 1907-1930.
Creator/Photographer: Edward S. Curtis
Birth Date: 1868
Death Date: 1952
Medium: Photogravure
Culture: American Indian
Date: Prior to 1930
Persistent URL: www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imagegalaxy_imageDetail.cfm?id...
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: The North American Indian Photography of Edward Curtis - Edward S. Curtis, a professional photographer in Seattle, devoted his life to documenting what was perceived to be a vanishing race. His monumental publication The North American Indian presented to the public an extensive ethnographical study of numerous tribes, and his photographs remain memorable icons of the American Indian. The Smithsonian Libraries holds a complete set of this work, which includes photogravures on tissue, donated by Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, whose husband had conducted an expedition to Alaska with Curtis in 1899.
Accession number: SIL7-58-08
Source: Flickr Commons
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Creator/Photographer: Edward S. Curtis
Birth Date: 1868
Death Date: 1952
Medium: Photogravure
Culture: American Indian
Date: Prior to 1930
Persistent URL: www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imagegalaxy_imageDetail.cfm?id...
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: The North American Indian Photography of Edward Curtis - Edward S. Curtis, a professional photographer in Seattle, devoted his life to documenting what was perceived to be a vanishing race. His monumental publication The North American Indian presented to the public an extensive ethnographical study of numerous tribes, and his photographs remain memorable icons of the American Indian. The Smithsonian Libraries holds a complete set of this work, which includes photogravures on tissue, donated by Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, whose husband had conducted an expedition to Alaska with Curtis in 1899.
Accession number: SIL7-58-08
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Owner: Smithsonian InstitutionSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 38971
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Viacreativa
Amazing to see this. What a world we live in, that we can look back in time like this. We are most fortunate.
Darky Delacroix
Wow, the horses looked so much better back then. Nice lateral clearance on that horse on the left. Beautiful picture, im glad that they are on display =)
~ kali's central station ~
This is something I would have loved to see with my own eyes.
sassylil_redhead
what a beautiful vision
GENO :-)
What is really amazing is that the white men were the real savages.