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Canoeing on Clayoquot Sound Photogravure (E.S. Curtis)

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Canoeing on Clayoquot Sound Photogravure (E.S. Curtis)
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From photograph by E. S. Curtis. Photogravure printed by Jon Andrew & Son. Matted 20" H x 24" W
Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 16, 1868 – October 19, 1952) was an American ethnologist and photographer of the American West and of Native American peoples.


In 1906, J. P. Morgan provided Curtis with $75,000 to produce a series on the North American Indian. This work was to be in 20 volumes with 1,500 photographs. Morgan's funds were to be disbursed over five years and were earmarked to support only fieldwork for the books not for writing, editing, or production of the volumes. Curtis himself would receive no salary for the project, which was to last more than 20 years.



"Edward Sheriff Curtis not only attempted, but actually achieved the impossible. With The North American Indian, he created an irreplaceable photographic and ethnographic record of more than eighty of North America’s native nations – a record first published between 1907 and 1930, which after decades of obscurity in rare book rooms and private collections, has experienced its renaissance. Comprising twenty volumes, twenty portfolios, thousands of pages of text, and more than twenty- two hundred photogravures, The North American Indian remains not only an unparalleled artistic and historic achievement, but a watershed in publishing history."

—J. P. Morgan



(Burger Collection)

City: Clayoqout Sound
State: British Columbia,
Date: 1915

FHWAC#: 22010