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Asahel Curtis (1874-1941)
2 gelatin silver prints, each with credit and respective plate number '972' and '994' in the negative. (2)
each approximately 5 5/8 x 7 5/8in (14.3 x 19.3cm); each framed
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Asahel Curtis, Edward's younger brother, began working in the Seattle studio in 1895. Edward sent him on assignment to the Klondike in 1897 and a subsequent squabble over credit for this work led Asahel to join forces with landscape photographer William P. Romans. The partnership was dissolved In 1920 and became the Asahel Curtis Photo Co., the name under which it operated until Asahel's death in 1941.
Asahel Curtis was an active outdoorsman and mountaineer, an advocate of roads and highways and instrumental in the development of Mount Rainier National Park—interests which are reflected in his photography, such as lots 106 and 107, atmospheric studies of Mount Rainier and the rocky Oregon coastline.
