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A Cheyenne Peyote Leader
Creator
Edward S. CurtisAmerican Photographer · 1868–1952
All works by this person →A poor reverend's son growing up in Minnesota farm country, the teenage Edward Curtis built his first camera from scratch. The Curtis family moved to the Washington territory, and around 1892 the newly married Curtis bought his first photographic studio in Seattle for 150 borrowed dollars. It quickly became *the* place to be photographed. He later settled in Los Angeles, where he operated photogra
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- negative 1927; print 1930
- Medium
- Photogravure
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 06d8ff40-1929-4344-8823-4be354e501a2
A portrait of an elderly man seen in profile, seated and facing to the left. He is holding a small beaded object in his lap.
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