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English: Edward S. Curtis in a self-portrait, standing with baleen whale, 1914   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Edward S. Curtis  (1868–1952)  wikidata:Q433128
 
Edward S. Curtis
Alternative names
Birth name: Edward Sheriff Curtis; Edward Curtis; E. S. Curtis; E.S. Curtis; Edward Sherriff Curtis
Description American photographer, anthropologist, explorer, film director and screenwriter
Date of birth/death 16 February 1868 Edit this at Wikidata 19 October 1952 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Whitewater Los Angeles
Work period 1896 Edit this at Wikidata–1930 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
United States of America; Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q433128
Title
English: Edward S. Curtis in a self-portrait, standing with baleen whale, 1914
Description
English:

PH Coll 484.C4

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) grew up in Minnesota, and moved to the Puget Sound area with his family in 1887. In 1891 he established a photography business in Seattle. Within a few years, Curtis and his partner, Thomas Guptill, established themselves as the leading photographers on Puget Sound. In addition to photoengraving for other businesses and publications, Curtis's stock in trade consisted of fashionable wedding portraits, society portraits, dramatic prints of Northwest scenery, and a number of photographs of local Indians. In 1899 Curtis was chosen as the official photographer for the Harriman expedition, a scientific expedition to Alaska sponsored by railroad tycoon Edward Harriman. By 1903 or 1904 he began to form a plan for a photographic project that would be "a permanent record of all the important tribes of the U.S. that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive traditions and customs." A baleen whale, purchased from a commercial fisherman, and towed to a Kwakiutl village to be used as a prop while filming In the Land of the War Canoes.

  • Subjects (LCSH): Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952; Photographers--British Columbia--Queen Charlotte Group--Portraits; Men--British Columbia--Queen Charlotte Group--Portraits; Whales--British Columbia--Queen Charlotte Group
Depicted place
English: British Columbia--Queen Charlotte Group
Date 1914
date QS:P571,+1914-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
2066
Source
English: Portraits Collection
Permission
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POR2024

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