Edward S. Curtis, born on February 19, 1868, in Whitewater, Wisconsin, was the son of Reverend Johnson Asahel Curtis and Ellen Sheriff. The family settled in Minnesota in 1874, where Curtis first ...

In 1896, Edward Curtis launched“one of the most ambitious documentary projects in the history of American photography,” said Gary Krist in The Washington Post. Curtis had already established himself ...

Edward Sheriff Curtis photographed and recorded data from over 80 Native American tribal groups. Starting in 1900 and continuing over the next thirty years, Edward Sheriff Curtis, or the “Shadow ...

First picture -- Encounter on a volcano -- The Big Idea -- Indian Napoleon -- With the President -- In the den of the titan -- Anglos in Indian country -- The artist and his audience -- The Custer ...