ES Curtis, Lomen Bros, Winter & Pond, Tlingit Baskets & Other Rare Native American Collectibles

ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND SALE ITEMS WILL BE ADDED AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE SALE DATE.

This is a truly amazing collection of Original Photogravures, Gold Tones/Orotones and other original photographs!

Edward S Curtis

Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America’s finest photographers and ethnologists.

When the Curtis family moved to Port Orchard, Washington in 1887, Edward’s gift for photography led him to an investigation of the Indians living on the Seattle waterfront. His portrait of Chief Seattle’s daughter, Princess Angeline, won Curtis the highest award in a photographic contest.

Having become well-known for his work-with the Indians, Curtis participated in the 1899 Harriman expedition to Alaska as one of two official photographers. He then accompanied George Bird Grinell, editor of Forest and Stream, on a trip to northern Montana. There they witnessed the deeply sacred Sundance of the Piegan and Blackfoot tribes. Travelling on horseback, with their pack horses trailing behind, they emerged from the mountains to view the valley floor massed with over a thousand teepees – an awesome sight to Curtis and one that transformed his life.  Everything fell into place at that moment: it was clear to him that he was to record, with pen and camera, the life of the North American Indian.

Edward S. Curtis devoted the next 30 years photographing and documenting over eighty, tribes west of the Mississippi, from the Mexican border to northern Alaska. His project won support from such prominent and powerful figures as President Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan.

From 1911-1914 Curtis also produced and directed a silent film based on the mythology of the Rawakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Upon its completion in 1930, the work, entitled The North American Indian, consisted of 20 volumes, each containing 75 hand–pressed photogravures and 300 pages of text. Each volume was accompanied by a corresponding portfolio containing at least 36 photogravures.

S.W. Ormsby

SW Ormsby (American, active circa 1900) operated a photography studio at the Wolf Point Agency around the Fort Peck Assiniboine Indian Reservation. His work is very rare, and little has yet to come to light on his life. He is known to have operated around the turn of the century and his work generally depicted the Assiniboine people in the area. His recorded work is generally taken "in the field" making his group of posed studio type images very uncharacteristic. 

Lomen Brothers Alaska Photographs

The Lomen Brothers' photographs, which date primarily from 1900 to 1934, are rich in views of Alaska, including Inuit peoples and activities, the city of Nome, reindeer herding, seal and walrus hunting, dogsled races, Siberia and the Yuit people, and gold mining.

Winter & Pond Studio

Lloyd Winter and Percy Pond preserved the legacy of Alaska's past through their photographs, taken over a period of 50 years.  The studios of Winter and Pond Company in Juneau, Alaska, provided local residents and visitors with a rich perspective of Alaska that is now considered a unique reflection of the state in the early 20th century.  During the company's existence, Alaska expanded mining, fishing, and resource development into profitable ventures that transformed it from a frontier district to a thriving territory of the United States.

The portraits that Winter and Pond produced show the diversity of Alaska's people through the years, from the gold rush of the Klondike in 1898 to the end of the mining operations in the Juneau Gold Belt District during the 1940s.  Above all, Winter and Pond made an outstanding contribution to our understanding of Tlingit Indian culture by photographing traditional Tlingit social customs and cultural activities just prior to the rapid changes of the 20th century.

ADDITIONAL ITEMS WILL BE ADDED SOON!

001: Edward S Curtis Canon Del Muerto Orotone
002: Edward S Curtis Roosevelt Orotone
003: Edward S Curtis Vanishing Race Platinum Print
004: Edward S Curtis Rare Vanishing Race Toned Silver Print
005: Edward S Curtis Platinum Print
006: Edward S Curtis "By The Arrow I Have Said It" Sepia Print
007: Edward S Curtis Navajo Boy Photogravure
008: Edward S Curtis Navajo Boy Signed
009: Edwards S Curtis An Apache Girl Signed
010: Edwards S Curtis Red Thunder-A New Perce Signed
011: Edward S Curtis A Moki Snake Chief Signed
012: Edward S Curtis Jich Shiggie-An Apache Signed
013: Edward S Curtis A Hopi Belle Signed
014: Edward S Curtis A Zuni Maid
015: Edward S Curtis A Zuni Maid
016: Edward S Curtis Dawson Indian Children
017: Edward S Curtis Dawson Indian Boy
018: Edward S Curtis Dawson Indian Boy
019: Loman Bros Studio Print
020: RARE SW Ormsby Toned Gelatin Silver Prints
021: Winter & Pond Takou Indian Doctor
022: Winter & Pond Chilkat Chiefs
023: Winter & Pond Indian Guide
024: Winter & Pond Takou Indian Doctor
025: Winter & Pond Thlingit Indian Woman
026: Winter & Pond Old Thlingit Women
027: Winter & Pond Archive Photos
028: Skagway AK 1893 Frank H Reid Funeral Photo & Others
029: Vintage M&E Studio Photo
030: Samoan Chief Photograph Circa 1899

033: Tlingit Spruce Root Basket
034: Tlingit Spruce Root Rattle-Top Basket
035: Makah Lidded Basket
036: Makah Lidded Basket
037: 1911 EC Adams Athapaskan Souvenir
038: Puget Sound Tribal Totem
039: Cattle Horn Spoon
040: Petalesharro Litho By JT Bowen
041: Stum-A-Nu Litho By JT Bowen
042: Collection Of Native American Postcards
043: Edward J Partridge Alaska Photographs 1887
044: Tongaline 1905 Advertising Calendar
045: Assorted Native Photographs
046: Eskimo And Oomiak Photograph