Native Americans: Portraits From a Century Ago by Edward Curtis

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Beautiful photographs.

From the article:

…he documented them with his hulking 14-inch-by-17-inch view camera, which produced glass-plate negatives that yielded the crisp, detailed and gorgeous gold-tone prints he was noted for.

Edward S. Curtis' Canon de Chelly—Navajo (1904). Library of Congress

Edward Curtis’ Epic Project to Photograph Native Americans

His 20-volume masterwork was hailed as "the most ambitious enterprise in publishing since the production of the King James Bible"

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