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CURTIS CYANOTYPES FROM VOLUME XI OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. 22 cyanotypes, with images of Clayoquot, Hesquiat and other Nootka tribes, including portraits and photographs made en plein air of fishing and boating, many of which are related to or variants of published images, the images measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm); image 1
CURTIS CYANOTYPES FROM VOLUME XI OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. 22 cyanotypes, with images of Clayoquot, Hesquiat and other Nootka tribes, including portraits and photographs made en plein air of fishing and boating, many of which are related to or variants of published images, the images measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm); image 2
CURTIS CYANOTYPES FROM VOLUME XI OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. 22 cyanotypes, with images of Clayoquot, Hesquiat and other Nootka tribes, including portraits and photographs made en plein air of fishing and boating, many of which are related to or variants of published images, the images measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm); image 3
CURTIS CYANOTYPES FROM VOLUME XI OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. 22 cyanotypes, with images of Clayoquot, Hesquiat and other Nootka tribes, including portraits and photographs made en plein air of fishing and boating, many of which are related to or variants of published images, the images measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm); image 4
CURTIS CYANOTYPES FROM VOLUME XI OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. 22 cyanotypes, with images of Clayoquot, Hesquiat and other Nootka tribes, including portraits and photographs made en plein air of fishing and boating, many of which are related to or variants of published images, the images measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm); image 5
CURTIS CYANOTYPES FROM VOLUME XI OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. 22 cyanotypes, with images of Clayoquot, Hesquiat and other Nootka tribes, including portraits and photographs made en plein air of fishing and boating, many of which are related to or variants of published images, the images measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm); image 6
CURTIS CYANOTYPES FROM VOLUME XI OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. 22 cyanotypes, with images of Clayoquot, Hesquiat and other Nootka tribes, including portraits and photographs made en plein air of fishing and boating, many of which are related to or variants of published images, the images measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm); image 7
CURTIS CYANOTYPES FROM VOLUME XI OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. 22 cyanotypes, with images of Clayoquot, Hesquiat and other Nootka tribes, including portraits and photographs made en plein air of fishing and boating, many of which are related to or variants of published images, the images measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm); image 8
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CURTIS CYANOTYPES FROM VOLUME XI OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.
22 cyanotypes, with images of Clayoquot, Hesquiat and other Nootka tribes, including portraits and photographs made en plein air of fishing and boating, many of which are related to or variants of published images, the images measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm);

The Curtis Studio: Important Photographs and Ephemera from a Distinguished Private Collection
30 June – 1 July 2021, 16:00 PDT
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CURTIS CYANOTYPES FROM VOLUME XI OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.

22 cyanotypes, with images of Clayoquot, Hesquiat and other Nootka tribes, including portraits and photographs made en plein air of fishing and boating, many of which are related to or variants of published images, the images measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches (203 x 152 mm); all numbered in grease pencil on the reverse and a few additionally annotated with "West Coast" or the picture's title, 1915-1916.
Provenance: Purchased by Dr. Billy Utley from Manford "Mag" Magnuson.

For Volume 11 of The North American Indian Curtis returned to his home region of the Pacific Northwest coast for the third and final time, devoting most of the album to the Haida and the Nookta tribes on Vancouver Island. Present here are images of canoes in Boston Cove, "The Whaler," and Clayoquot Sound.

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ARCHITECTURE - ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL Manuscript planning brief for work under the supervision of Inigo Jones, [c.1631]
ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]
ARCHITECTURE - STUART (JAMES) AND NICHOLAS REVETT The Antiquities of Athens, 4 vol. bound in 2, 1825-1830
ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]
ARMENIAN - HISTORY, THEOLOGY AND PRINTING. Group of books/a map in Armenian, c.1825-1901 (12)
MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]
BANK NOTES - MANUFACTURING BRADBURY (HENRY) On the Security and Manufacture of Bank Notes, FIRST EDITION, Bradbury and Evans, 1856