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Edward Curtis North American
Indian Collection
2,228 images of American History
Perfect for the historian, the student, or the lover of
American Indian History!  Digitally captured for your eternal
collection!
The original Edward S. Curtis collection,
by the longest active seller on ebay for these fine CD’s!
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The North American Indian
by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most significant and controversial
representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced.
Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication continues to
exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular culture.
Curtis said he wanted to document “the old time Indian, his dress, his
ceremonies, his life and manners.” In over 2000 photogravure plates and
narrative, Curtis portrayed the traditional customs and lifeways of
eighty Indian tribes. The twenty volumes, each with an accompanying
portfolio, are organized by tribes and culture areas encompassing the
Great Plains, Great Basin, Plateau Region, Southwest, California,
Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. Featured here are all of the published
photogravure images including over 1500 illustrations bound in the text
volumes, along with over 700 portfolio plates.
This is not a Native American reproduction artifact.  Rather this
is a digitization of work done by a photographer, Edward Curtis, in the
early 1900’s who took thousands of images of Native Americans to
document their way of living.  This item does not fall under the
1935 Indian Arts and Crafts Act because the work depicted was done a)
prior to 1930, and b) not an Indian art or craft made by an Indian.
This digital collection presents the 2228 illustrations
from
The North American Indian
by Edward S. Curtis. Many of the
striking images from
The North American Indian
have been
reproduced widely, especially since the 1970s. While there is
controversy about how Curtis romanticized American Indian culture, the
intention of this digital collection is to present all of the published
images in their entirety, with comprehensive identifying data including
plate numbering, dimensions, and the original captions by Curtis. It is
hoped that the viewer may get a sense of the content of the rare
original volumes, in order to develop an informed understanding of
Curtis and his project.
The North American Indian
(1907-1930), by Edward S. Curtis, was published in a limited edition and
sold by subscription. The lavishly illustrated volumes were printed on
the finest paper and bound in expensive leather, making the price
prohibitive for all but the most avid collectors and libraries.
Subscriptions sold for about $3,000 in 1907; the price rose to about
$4,200 by 1924. Although the plan was to sell 500 sets, it appears that
Curtis secured only about 220 subscriptions over the course of the
project. In 1935 the assets of the project were liquidated, and the
remaining materials were sold to the Charles Lauriat Company , a rare
book dealer in Boston. Lauriat acquired nineteen unsold sets of
The
North American Indian
, thousands of individual prints, sheets of
unbound paper, and the handmade copper photogravure plates. They lay
forgotten in the bookstore’s basement until their rediscovery in the
1970s, which marked the revival of interest in Curtis’ haunting images
of American Indians.
The set owned by Northwestern was donated by J.P.
Morgan, Curtis’ sponsor. It consists of twenty volumes in original
bindings containing text and illustrations and twenty portfolios of
individual plates reproduced by the photogravure process.
Each volume measures 12 inches high, 10 inches wide
and about 3 2/5 inches thick. Each is bound in half leather, that is,
the spine and the four corners of the front and back covers are covered
in a high quality brown Levant morocco leather. The covers themselves
are laminated binders board; the central panel on each board is covered
with a heavy tan cloth. The text block within each volume measures 11
inches high, 9 1/2 inches wide and 2 to 2 1/2 inches thick; the text
itself occupies an area 8 1/8 inches high by 5 inches wide on each page.
Each volume has in gold foil stamping on the spine a simple line
decoration with the set’s title at the top, the author, volume number in
roman numerals, tribe(s) in the volume and the publication date of the
volume at the foot of the spine. Volumes 1-14 were bound by H.
Blackwell, while volumes 15-20 were bound by Whitman Bennett, NY, as
indicated at the top of the front free flyleaf.
There are around 75 photogravure plates in each bound
volume, with image sizes averaging 5 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches; each
accompanying portfolio holds around 35 loose photogravure sheets, with
image sizes averaging 12 by 16 inches. In total, there are 1506 plates
in the bound volumes and 722 plates in the portfolios, for a total of
2228 plates.
This
CD
contains high quality scans of the collection
in its entirety.  The only software you need to view this
collection is a jpg viewer, which should already be on your computer. 
This hard to find volume is perfect for those looking to take a peek
into the lives of American Indians at the turn of the 20th century. 
(
just a reminder, you are not purchasing that actual original volumes,
as that would cost you thousands of dollars, you are getting a CD!
)
Here are the titles of all the volumes
(
ALL ARE INCLUDED ON THIS ONE CD
):
Volume
Title
for Volume
Plates in
Plates in
Volume
Portfolio
Volume 1
The Apache. The
Jicarillas. The Navaho. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1907
81 images
39 images
Pl. 1-39
Volume 2
The
Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The
Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai. / Seattle : E.S.
Curtis, 1908
75 images
36 images
Pl. 40-75
Volume 3
The
Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1908
78 images
36 images
Pl. 76-110, 119
Volume 4
The
Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1909
74 images
36 images
Pl. 111-147
Volume 5
The
Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1909
74 images
36 images
Pl. 148-183
Volume 6
The
Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1911
75 images
36 images
Pl. 184-219
Volume 7
The
Yakima. The Klickitat. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai. /
Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1911
75 images
36 images
Pl. 220-255
Volume 8
The
Nez Perces. Wallawalla. Umatilla. Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes. / Seattle :
E.S. Curtis, 1911
77 images
37 images
Pl. 256-292
Volume 9
The
Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa. /
Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1913
75 images
36 images
Pl. 293-328
Volume 10
The
Kwakiutl. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1915
74 images
36 images
Pl. 329-364
Volume 11
The
Nootka. The Haida. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1916
76 images
36 images
Pl. 365-400
Volume 12
The
Hopi. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1922
75 images
36 images
Pl. 400*-435
Volume 13
The
Hupa. The Yurok. The Karok. The Wiyot. Tolowa and Tututni. The Shasta. The
Achomawi. The Klamath. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1924
75 images
36 images
Pl. 436-471
Volume 14
The
Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Pomo. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The
Yokuts. /Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1924
74 images
36 images
Pl. 472-507
Volume 15
Southern
California Shoshoneans. The Diegueños. Plateau Shoshoneans. The Washo. /
Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1926
75 images
36 images
Pl. 508-543
Volume 16
The
Tiwa. The Keres. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1926
75 images
36 images
Pl. 544-579
Volume 17
The
Tewa. The Zuñi. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1926
74 images
36 images
Pl. 580-615
Volume 18
The
Chipewyan. The Western woods Cree. The Sarsi. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1928
75 images
36 images
Pl. 616-651
Volume 19
The
Indians of Oklahoma. The Wichita. The southern Cheyenne. The Oto. The
Comanche. The Peyote cult. / Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1930
75 images
36 images
Pl. 652-687
Volume 20
The
Alaskan Eskimo. The Nunivak. The Eskimo of Hooper Bay. The Eskimo of King
Island. The Eskimo of Little Diomede Island. The Eskimo of Cape Prince of
Wales. The Kotzebue Eskimo. The Noatak. The Kobuk. The Selawik. / Seattle :
E.S. Curtis, 1930
78 images
35 images
Pl. 688-722
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you an idea of the quality of this collection:
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