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THE VANISHING RACE

• EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS, (AMERICAN, 1868-1952),
  EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS, (AMERICAN, 1868-1952), THE VANISHING RACE, DOUBLE BORDER SILVER GELATIN PRINT, IMAGE: 5 5/8 X 7 5/8 IN., SHEET: 10 5/8 X 12 3/4 IN.EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS, (American, 1868-1952) The Vanishing Race, double border silver gelatin print signed in ink Curtis L.A., l.r. image: 5 5/8 x 7 5/8 in., sheet: 10 5/8 x 12 3/4 in. Provenance: By descent to a Massachusetts Lady. Condition: Condition: Affixed to backing at top edge and in one spot halfway down right side; small blemish in margin along lower edge on left side (possibly a thumbprint); faint scattered foxing and toning along top edge.
• EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS, AMERICAN (1868-1952),
  EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS, AMERICAN (1868-1952), "VANISHING RACE - NAVAHO", 1904, OROTONE PHOTOGRAPH ON GLASS, (GOLDTONE), 11"H X 14"W (IMAGE), 15 1/2"H X 18 1/2"W (FRAME)Edward Sheriff Curtis, American, (1868-1952) "Vanishing Race - Navaho", 1904, orotone photograph on glass, (goldtone) signed with Copyright lower right in the negative. In original frame with original descriptive label at upper left on frame verso, (worn). Curtis searched for an image to illustrate this idea for nearly four years before creating "The Vanishing Race". A century ago, it was by far and away Curtis' most popular single image. Today it still remains a highly sought after and classic. Literature: The North American Indian (1907-1930), Portfolio 1, Plate 1. Native Nations, Bulfinch Press publisher, 1993, p. 123. Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Simon & Schuster, 2000, p. 188. Edward S. Curtis: The Great Warriors, Bulfinch Press, 2004, p. 7. Edward S. Curtis One Hundred Masterworks, Delmonico Books/Prestel Publishing, 2015, p. 91, 166. orotone photograph on glass, (goldtone) Dimensions: 11"H x 14"W (image), 15 1/2"H x 18 1/2"W (frame)
• EDWARD S. CURTIS, (1868 - 1952), GROUP
  EDWARD S. CURTIS, (1868 - 1952), GROUP OF THREE RESTRIKE PHOTOGRAVURES, 1904Edward S. Curtis, (1868 - 1952) Group of Three Restrike Photogravures: Out of the Darkness, 1904 + Canon de Chelly, 1904 + The Vanishing Race, 1904, restrike photogravure on classic paper, editions 154 of 228 each editioned lower right: 154/228 Out of the Darkness embossed in paper: E S Curtis CG restrike photogravure on classic paper, editions 154 of 228 Dimensions: Out of the Darkness: 14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm.), Frame: 21 7/8 x 25 1/2 x 1 3/8 in. (55.6 x 64.8 x 3.5 cm.), Canon de Chelly: 13 3/4 x 16 3/4 in. (34.9 x 42.5 cm.), Frame: 21 7/8 x 25 5/8 x 1 3/8 in. (55.6 x 65.1 x 3.5 cm.), The Vanishing Race: 14 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. (36.2 x 42.5 cm.), Frame: 21 3/4 x 25 5/8 x 1 3/8 in. (55.2 x 65.1 x 3.5 cm.) Provenance: *All proceeds benefit New Mexico Women in the Arts
• EDWARD S. CURTIS (AMERICAN, 1868-1952)Edward
  EDWARD S. CURTIS (AMERICAN, 1868-1952)Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868-1952), "The Vanishing Race - Navajo", negative creation date 1904, orotone, signed in negative lower right, copyright lower left, "The Curtis Studio, Seattle" label on reverse of frame, 11 in. x 14 in., original Curtis Studio frame, overall 15 5 /8 in. x 19 in. x 1 1/2 in. Provenance: Treadway Toomey Auctions, Chicago, IL, Dec. 7, 2013, lot 110; Estate of Eric Bloomquist, Bloomington, IL. Ill.: Davis, Barbara A. Edward S. Curtis: The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1985, p. 90.
• CHARLES PLEIN BRONZE INKWELL 'THE VANISHING
  CHARLES PLEIN BRONZE INKWELL 'THE VANISHING RACE'Charles Plein, American (1870 - 1920). 'The Vanishing Race'. Bronze inkwell. Signed 'Plein, Omaha'. 7.5" H x 8" W x 4" D.
• EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (CA/AZ/NM, 1868-1952)
  EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (CA/AZ/NM, 1868-1952) "The Vanishing Race (Navajo)", platinum print, on the original mount, ink signed lower right, blindstamped lower left "Copyrighted 1904 by E.S. Curtis, negative number on edge of print '301-04'. Unframed, 12" x 16", loose in foamcore folio, fine condition.
• The Vanishing Race by Dixon Plus Additional
  The Vanishing Race by Dixon Plus Additional Titles Lot of 9 titles:Dixon Joseph Kossuth LL.D.? The Vanishing Race: The Last Great Indian Council.? Third revised edition.? Philadelphia: National American Indian Memorial Association Press 1925.? 4to imprinted red buckram boards 239pp plus 80 fine photogravures.? Shelfwear and slightly loose binding but all interior leaves and photogravures in very good condition.Drake Benjamin.? The Great Indian Chief of the West or Life and Adventures of Black Hawk.? Cincinnati: H.M. Rulison 1856 originally G. Conklin 1838.? 12mo black pressed paper boards 288pp.? Significant foxing throughout but tight binding and all text legible.McKnight Charles.? Old Fort Duquesne: or Captain Jack The Scout.? Pittsburgh: Peoples Monthly Publishing Co. 1874.? 12mo gilt imprinted maroon buckram boards 501pp.? Shelfwear and toning; binding intact.Pidgeon William.? Traditions of De-Coo-Dah and Antiquarian Researches.? New York: Horace Thayer 1858 (originally 1852).? 8vo pressed cloth boards 334pp plus pull-out frontispiece Ancient American Battle-Mound and 70 engravings and diagrams.Dodge Col. Richard Irving with introduction by Gen. W.T. Sherman.? Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West.? Hartford CT: A.D. Worthington & Co. 1883.? 8vo brown paper boards with gilt imprints 653pp plus many engravings and chromolithographed plates.? Shelfwear and some loosening of binding.Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations.? Prepared by Frederick Cook New York Secretary of State.? Auburn NY: Knapp Peck & Thomson 1887.? 4to red buckram boards with gilt imprints 579pp plus several tipped-in maps.? Shelfwear and a few pages separated from binding else very good.King Capt. Charles.? Campaigning With Crook and Stories of Army Life.? New York: Harper & Brothers 1890.? 12mo blue paper boards 295pp.? Very good condition.Smead W.H.? Land of the Flatheads: A Sketch of the Flathead Reservation Montana.? St. Paul MN: Pioneer Press 1905.? 8vo imprinted green buckram boards 142pp.and The George Catlin Indian Gallery.? Binding destroyed and missing first 131 of 938 pages.
• Edward Curtis (American 1868-1952) Orotone
  Edward Curtis (American 1868-1952) Orotone The Vanishing Race signed lower right original arts and crafts bronzed gesso and wood batwing frame descriptive label and Seattle?studio label on versosight 10.25 in. x 13.5 in.; framed 16 in. x 19 in.?ca 1900 Condition: Scratch on outer glass.
• Joseph Kossuth Dixon Group of American
  Joseph Kossuth Dixon Group of American Indian Photographs Lot of 9 silver gelatin prints on paper of scenes made by Joseph Kossuth Dixon and his team of photographers?during the "Last Great Council" extravaganza at Crow Agency MT in 1909. Most of these appear as illustrations in Dixon's?The Vanishing Race; each a 5 x 8 in. image on 10.5 x 13.5 in. paper.? Photographs include: a view of?a lone mounted Crow surveying the area from a ridge; a portrait of Curley Custer's surviving scout; a profile portrait of aged Crow man ? with difficult to read pencil identification on verso; an image identified on verso as Reno Ridge showing a group of Crow riding upon the site of part of the Battle of Little Bighorn; another view of the same group further down Reno Ridge; two different views of a Crow procession through the waters of the Little Bighorn; and two different views of Crow riders on the plains.? It is presumable that all scenes and the unidentified man are related to the Battle of Little Bighorn photographed during a commemorative procession roughly 30 years after the battle. Our sincere thanks to Mike Cowdrey for providing information regarding these photographs. Condition: Light wear at extreme edges.? Images are crisp clear and unsoiled.
• CURTIS EDWARD S. (American 1868-1952)
  CURTIS EDWARD S. (American 1868-1952) The Vanishing Race 1904. Gelatin silver print signed in ink and the photographer's 'Seattle' copyright blind-stamp on the image. photograph signed Curtis (lower right); embossed E. Curtis Gallery (lower left) 12 1/4 x 16 inches.
• CURTIS Edward (American 1868-1952):
  CURTIS Edward (American 1868-1952): ''The Vanishing Race-Navajo'' Photogravure 18'' x 22 1/4'' titled lower left #'d plate 1 upper left from copyright photograph 1904 by E. Curtis photogravure by John Andrew & Sons on Arches Paper unframed. Finely printed from the original plate in 1982 by master printmaker author and teacher Deli Sacilotto edition size less than 15.CONDITION: Very faint pot of foxing in the lower right margin.
• CURTIS Edward (American 1868-1952):
  CURTIS Edward (American 1868-1952): ''The Vanishing Race - Navajo'' Photogravure 18'' x 22 1/2'' with margins on Arches Paper titled lower left marked plate 1 upper left corner lower right corner marked photogravure by John Andrew & Sons copyright photograph 1904 by E.S. Curtis unframed. Finely printed from the original plate in 1982 by master printmaker author and teacher Deli Sacilotto edition size less than 15.
• Thomas L. McKenney (American 1785-1859)
  Thomas L. McKenney (American 1785-1859) and James Hall (1793-1868): the George Strother Gaines (1784-1873) Original Subscriber Set of the History of the Indian Tribes of North America 1837-1844 3 vols. in folio 20 in. x 14 1/4 in. with 120 hand-colored lithographic plates after James Otto Lewis Charles Bird King Karl Bodmer P. Rhindesbacher and R. M. Sully drawn on stone by A. Newsome A. Hoffy Ralph Trembley Henry Dacre and others printed and colored by J. T. Bowen; a leaf titled "The Genuineness of the Portrait of Pocahontas" a page of lithographed maps "Localities of all the Indian Tribes in North America in 1833" 17 pp of facsimile signatures of the original subscribers including "Geo. S. Gaines" under the heading for Mobile & Ala. three-quarter red leather over marbled boards. Provenance: Descended in the family of pioneer and statesman George Strother Gaines to the present owner. Gaines was a prominent figure in 19th century Alabama and Mississippi who played a pivotal role in the development of those states. As Assistant Trader with the Choctaw Trading House Gaines established close relationships with the local Indian tribes including the Choctaw and the Chickasaw. Gaines later oversaw the relocation of approximately 6 000 Choctaws from Mississippi to Oklahoma with very few casualties and was praised by the Mobile Commercial Register for his consideration for the well-being of the Choctaw travelers although the expense was three times greater than the original estimate for the relocation effort. Note: Thomas McKenney's and James Hall's monumental History of the Indian Tribes constitutes the most important opening chapter of a closely linked series of intimately related works on the great subject of the native populations of North America. It is true that it had been - somewhat unfairly - preceded by a couple of years with the hurried publication of the "Portfolio" of 1835 by James Otto Lewis who had been a crucial and major contributor (in 1826-27) to McKenney's original idea of recording visually the distinctive costumes and accessories of the major Indian chiefs to negotiate treaties with the Federal Government. But Charles Bird King in fact repainted almost all Lewis's images for this much larger edition and Bowen did a much improved version of publishing them; the 120 plates of this definitive edition draw on the talents of many other artists and the fame of their results has justly eclipsed by far the essentially unimportant plates of the 1835 "Portfolio". McKenney himself was a kind of inspired functionary who as Superintendent of the Indian Trade Bureau under Presidents Madison and Monroe (2 April 1816 to 22 May 1822 when the post was abolished) quickly succeeded himself as first Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the aegis of the War Department (11 March 1824) in which capacity he served also Presidents J. Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson; he was finally dismissed by the latter on 1 October 1830. The 15 years of his incumbency were industriously spent in securing portraits of the notable chieftains who negotiated the Federal treaties both in Washington and in the field. McKenney traveled indefatigably and entertained the chiefs very lavishly in Washington - so much so that (unjustified) enquiries into his expenses eventually forced him from office. His original gallery of Indian portraits (in the former War Department on the site of the Old Executive Office Building) perished in the burning of the Smithsonian Institution in 1865; it had been providentially copied for this publication by the young Henry Inman (1801-1846) and his own expanded-format portraits are now at Harvard University. James Hall was an able writer who was found by McKenney after he left office: it took a half-dozen years for Hall to undertake the subscriptions and arrange the publication for which the original subscribers' contributions were $120 per set. In the midst of the tragic saga of the Indian "removals" to the eventual state of Oklahoma (principally occurring in 1838-1842) and of this great work by McKenney and Hall (1837-1844) a younger artist of extraordinary field experience George Catlin (1796-1872) brought out his Letters and Notes on the Manners Customs and Condition of the North American Indian in 2 volumes in London in 1841. The second definitive set of Catlin's paintings (numbering some 500 items) was acquired by Paul Mellon for the National Gallery of Art in Washington: Catlin's engaging narrative style provides the best 19th-century source for the lives rituals and ceremonies of his directly-experienced subjects. Finally The North American Indian lavishly sponsored by J. Pierpont Morgan under the patronage of President Theodore Roosevelt brought to the public the marvelous photogravures of Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1954) in 20 volumes over the years 1907 to 1930. Indeed it may justly be said that the collected images of Catlin as well as of McKenney and Hall were both destined for supererogation only by the new invention of photography. Introduced into America as it was in the earliest days of the 1840s with striking portraits of North America's native peoples in many successive techniques over the next 60 years photography achieved a kind of bittersweet closure to the saga of "the vanishing race" in the poignant images of E. S. Curtis - a fitting culmination of the efforts of the preceding century nowhere better epitomized than in McKenney and Hall to celebrate the grandeur and dignity of the earliest populations of the American frontier. Reference: James P. Pate The Reminiscences of George Strother Gaines Pioneer and Statesman of Early Alabama and Mississippi 1805-1843 The University of Alabama Press 1998. Special PDF
• Vintage Edward S. Curtis (American 1868-1952)
  Vintage Edward S. Curtis (American 1868-1952) Photo ''The Vanishing Race'' Sgn. on image lower right Curtis L.A. To JTTT Breitenbed with kinder regards Edward S. Curtis. Label on reverse Curtis Studios LA.Condition: Some discoloration & foxing.Dimensions: Overall 10 1/2'' x 13''E
• Edward Curtis Photograph (American,
  Edward Curtis Photograph (American, 1868-1952), The Vanishing Race, 1904, orotone photograph, signed "Curtis" in plate lower right with copyright information lower left, 10-1/2 x 13-3/8 in. (sight); in unlabeled but probably original Curtis Studio painted wood and composition frame,
• 1 vol. Dixon, Joseph Kossuth. The Vanishing
  1 vol. Dixon, Joseph Kossuth. The Vanishing Race: The Last Great Indian Council. Philadelphia: National American Indian Memorial Association Press, 1925. Third revised edition. Lg. 8vo, orig. gilt-paneled black morocco, a.e.g., turn-ins gilt, silked endpapers & doublures; joints tender & rubbed, back joint starting to separate, corners slightly bumped & rubbed, by Groschope, Phila. With 80 photogravure plates. Internally clean. Presentation copy, signed & dated, "1926" by Rodman Wanamaker.