Edward S. Curtis
American Photographer · 1868–1952
455 works on LinkedCulture
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
Works
View as IIIF ↗[A'aninin Camp]
Getty Museum · 1908
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A Bear Totem at Massett
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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[About the camp-fire]
Getty Museum · 1898–1915
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A Bowlder Milling-stone - Miwok
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Buffalo-fall - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
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A Capitan Grande Man - Diegueño
Getty Museum · negative 1924; print 1926
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A Capitan Grande Woman - Diegueño
Getty Museum · negative 1924; print 1926
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A Cheyenne Peyote Leader
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print 1930
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A Chief - Chukchansi Yokuts
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Child's Lodge - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
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A Chukchansi Head-man
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Chukchansi Matron
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Chukchansi Matron
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Chukchansi Woman
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Chukchansi Woman - Profile
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Chukchansi Yokuts
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Chukchansi Yokuts Woman (A)
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Chukchansi Yokuts Woman (B)
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Clayoquot Maiden
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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A Clayoquot Woman
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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A Coast Pomo
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Coast Pomo Man
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Comanche Child
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print 1930
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A Comanche Girl
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print 1930
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A Decaying Houseframe - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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A Desert Cahuilla Female Type
Getty Museum · negative 1924; print 1926
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A Favorite Cheyenne Costume
Getty Museum · 1911
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A Foggy Day - Kotzebue
Getty Museum · 1928
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A Gem of Basketry - Southern Yokuts
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Grave-house - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
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A Haida Girl
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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A Haida of Kung
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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A Haida of Massett
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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A Haida Shaman's Rattle
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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A Hesquiat Belle
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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A Kato Matron
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Kato Woman
Getty Museum · 1924
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[A Kwakiutl Head Hunter Dressed for a Kominaka Dance]
Getty Museum · 1910–1914
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A Lake Mono Basket-maker
Getty Museum · negative 1924; print 1926
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[A Liksiyu Warrior]
Getty Museum · 1910
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A Little Comanche
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print 1930
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A Little Oto
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print 1930
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[Along the misty path of copper]
Getty Museum · 1914
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Altar Peyote with Rattles - Osage
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print 1930
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A Maidu Boy
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Maidu Man
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Maidu Woman
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Makah Profile
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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A Makah Woman
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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A Man of Palm Springs - Cahuilla
Getty Museum · negative 1924; print 1926
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A Mesa Grande Man - Diegueño
Getty Museum · negative 1924; print 1926
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A Mixed-blood Coast Pomo
Getty Museum · 1924
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Among the Tules - Yokuts
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Mono Type
Getty Museum · negative 1924; print 1926
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An Arapaho
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print 1930
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An Eastern Pomo
Getty Museum · 1924
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Animal Dance - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
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Animal Dance - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print 1930
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Animal Designs in Yokuts Basketry
Getty Museum · 1924
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A Nootka
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
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