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KerrisdaleGallery.com – Stock ID#CUR181 – Edward Sheriff Curtis, Visions of a Vanishing Race by Florence Graybill Curtis and Victor Boesen – American Legacy Press 1981 Hardcover book in dustjacket ISBN 0517348195
Edward Sheriff Curtis, Visions of a Vanishing Race by Florence Graybill Curtis and Victor Boesen – American Legacy Press 1981 Hardcover book in dustjacket ISBN 0517348195 – examples of content, four female portraits: Lummi, Wishham bride, Mohave, Nootka (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com – Stock ID#CUR181)
Edward Sheriff Curtis, Visions of a Vanishing Race by Florence Graybill Curtis and Victor Boesen – American Legacy Press 1981 Hardcover book in dustjacket ISBN 0517348195 – examples of content, four male portraits: Arikara, Haida, Piegan, Quilcene (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com – Stock ID#CUR181)
Edward Sheriff Curtis, Visions of a Vanishing Race by Florence Graybill Curtis and Victor Boesen – American Legacy Press 1981 Hardcover book in dustjacket ISBN 0517348195 – composite view to show book front, back and spine (available from KerrisdaleGallery.com – Stock ID#CUR181)
TITLE: Edward Sheriff Curtis, Visions of a Vanishing Race
A lifetime dedicated to documenting, with pen and camera, the life and culture of over 80 tribes west of the Mississippi, in the USA and in Canadaby Florence Curtis Graybill, Victor Boesen
DESCRIPTION
Over 175 magnificent photographs, many of them reproduced for the first time and made directly from Edward Curtis' own glass-plate negatives and original plates
American Legacy Press, 1981, Hardcover in dustjacket
- Price: $95.00 ($CAD)
- Stock ID: CUR181bv
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS
- Title: Edward Sheriff Curtis, Visions of a Vanishing Race
- Credits:
Edward Sheriff Curtis (photographer), Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen (text)
- Language: English
- Publisher: American Legacy Press, New York; copyright 1976 by Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen
- Publication Date: 1981
- Edition: 1981 Edition
- ISBN: 0517348195
- Format: Hardcover in dustjacket, Vertical, Large
- Binding: Laminated brown paper
- Condition:
Near Fine - light 1-inch scuff on the front cover, bottom front edge
- Dustjacket: Good - wrinkling on edges
- Illustrations: Over 175 black and white and sepia-toned reproductions of photographs, many of them full-page
- Pages: 303
- Dimensions (HxWxD): 13.25 x 9.75 x 1 inches | 33.5 x 25 x 2.5 cm
- Weight: 4 lb, 1 oz | 1845 grams
SYNOPSIS
Contents include:
List of Text Photographs, List of Portfolio Photographs, Foreward by Florence Graybill Curtis, The Photographer and His Equipment, a discussion of the life and work of Edward S. Curtis and the Portfolio of photographs.
BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
- Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952)
- Florence Graybill Curtis, daughter, born in Seattle WA
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by Artist: 1900s, American, Edward, Edward Sheriff Curtis
by Collection: Americana, Biography, Black & White, Book, Canadiana, Dustjacket, Environment Awareness, Figures & Groups, First Nations, Hardcover, Historical, Horse, Native & Indigenous, Photography, Portrait, Second Edition, Traditional, Western Art
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