New York— On Thursday, October 18, Swann Galleries will
north american indian
February 16 marks the 150th anniversary of photographer Edward S. Curtis' birth. Curtis, a middle-school dropout who died in relative obscurity, is best known now for his visionary (and budget-breaking) twenty-volume set of photographs and ethnographic descriptions called The North American Indian. Volume one appeared in 1907, with the support of Theodore Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan. (
