Resource Spotlight | Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian at Northwestern University Libraries

 

Tenaktak Canoes
Volume 10. The Kwakiutl
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1914.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

 
 
 

Edward Sheriff Curtis published The North American Indian between 1907 and 1930 with the intent to record traditional Native American cultures. The work comprises twenty volumes of narrative text and photogravure images. Each volume is accompanied by a portfolio of large photogravure plates.

Cultural Context:
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Two Whistles - Apsaroke
Portfolio 4. The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1905-1908.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Sioux Girls
Portfolio 3. The Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1904-1908.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Horse Capture - Atsina
Portfolio 5. The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son in 1908.

Red Whip - Atsina
Portfolio 5. The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son in 1908.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

A Hesquiat Woman
Portfolio 11. The Nootka. The Haida
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son in 1915.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

The Eagle Medicine-man - Apsaroke
Volume 4. The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1905-1908.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

A Nokoaktok Chief's Daughter
Portfolio 10. The Kwakiutl
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son in 1914.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Flathead Warrior
Volume 7. The Yakima. The Klickitat. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1900-1910.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Mother and Child - Apsaroke
Volume 4. The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1905-1908.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Two Moons - Cheyenne
Portfolio 6. The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1900-1911.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Nakoaktok Chief and Copper
Volume 10. The Kwakiutl
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son in 1914.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Hástĭn Yázhĕ - Navaho
Volume 1. The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1903-1907.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Iron Breast - Piegan
Portfolio 6. The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1900-1911.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

The Medicine-Man
Portfolio 3. The Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1904-1908.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Three White Cows - Atsina
Volume 5. The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son in 1908.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Raven Chief of Skidegate - Haida
Volume 11. The Nootka. The Haida
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son in 1915.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

Wishham Girl, Profile
Portfolio 8. The Nez Perces. Wallawalla. Umatilla. Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes.
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1899-1910.

Fat Horse, with Insignia of a Blackfoot Soldier
Volume 18. The Chipewyan. The Western woods Cree. The Sarsi
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son; Original photogravures produced in Norwood, Massachusetts by Plimpton Press and in Cambridge, Mass. by Suffolk Engraving in 1926.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

A Haida Chief's Tomb at Yan
Portfolio 11. The Nootka. The Haida
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1915.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

At Memkumlis
Volume 10. The Kwakiutl
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1914.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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