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Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 19, 1868 – October 19, 1952, sometimes given as Edward Sherriff Curtis) [1] was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people.
Asahel Curtis' photo of Seattle in 1900. Asahel Curtis (1874–1941) was an American photographer based in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. His career included documentation of the Klondike Gold Rush period in Seattle, natural landscapes in the Northwest, and infrastructure projects in Seattle.
Curtis's election as vice president made history because he was the only native Kansan, and the only Native American to hold the post. The first person enrolled in a Native American tribe to be elected to such a high office, Curtis decorated his office with Native American artifacts and posed for pictures wearing Indian headdresses. [24]
In 1928 Curtis, running with Herbert Hoover, was elected the 31st Vice President of the United States. He was given little to do in the office, though he did preside over the opening of the 1932 ...
Project 562 is a photography ... "I can see the importance of Curtis ... Matika Wilbur's Project 562, featuring 40 of Wilbur's Native American portraits as ...
In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) George Hunt (with megaphone), Edward S. Curtis, and actors filming In The Land of the Head Hunters Another production still.. In the Land of the Head Hunters (also called In the Land of the War Canoes) is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia ...
Matika Wilbur photographed members of every federally recognized Native American tribe. She named the series Project 562 for the number of recognized tribes at the time.
This image came from The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis. These images were published between 1907 and 1930. These images were published between 1907 and 1930. According to the U.S. Library of Congress, they are in the public domain in the United States.