Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) came to prominence as a photographer of Native Americans during a time when Indian tribes were being forced onto reservations and their children were being sent ...

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 ...

Born in Wisconsin in 1868, Edward Sheriff Curtis took to photography at an early age. By age 17, he was an apprentice at a studio in St. Paul, Minnesota, and his life seemed to be taking a ...

For more than 30 years at the beginning of the 20th century, the Wisconsin-born, Seattle-based photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis wandered the expanses of North America interviewing and photographing ...

It’s extremely rare to find negatives of Edward Sheriff Curtis, the iconic photographer of Native American life and the Old West. And that’s what makes Jim Graybill’s gift to Smithsonian's ...

After taking a portrait of the daughter of a high-profile Native American chief in 1895, photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis dedicated his career to documenting the lives and cultures of the most ...

Beginning in 1900 and continuing over the next thirty years, Edward Sheriff Curtis, or the “Shadow ... where Edward became interested in photography and soon constructed his own camera and ...

Washington state is about to sail into a gale of Edward Sheriff Curtis — the Northwest-based photographer born 150 years ago, who famously depicted Native Americans from over 80 tribes and ...

Edward Sheriff Curtis was an ethnologist and photographer who documented what he perceived as the vanishing culture of Native Americans during the early years of the twentieth century. The North ...

J.P. Morgan In 1900, Edward S. Curtis set out to document the history ... and the resulting body of work is unequalled in the history of photography, publishing or ethnography. Curtis also, produced ...