Joanna Cohan Scherer "Beginning in the 1890s, [Edward S. Curtis] set out to document what he and most of his contemporaries believed was a 'vanishing race' - that of the American Indian." ...

Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) left an enduring mark on the history of photography in his 20-volume life's work, The North American Indian. Between 1900 and 1930, Curtis traveled across the continent ...