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CURTIS STUDIO LOS ANGELES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA. A collection of photographs and ephemera from the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles, as follows: image 1
CURTIS STUDIO LOS ANGELES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA. A collection of photographs and ephemera from the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles, as follows: image 2
CURTIS STUDIO LOS ANGELES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA. A collection of photographs and ephemera from the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles, as follows: image 3
CURTIS STUDIO LOS ANGELES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA. A collection of photographs and ephemera from the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles, as follows: image 4
CURTIS STUDIO LOS ANGELES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA. A collection of photographs and ephemera from the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles, as follows: image 5
CURTIS STUDIO LOS ANGELES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA. A collection of photographs and ephemera from the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles, as follows: image 6
CURTIS STUDIO LOS ANGELES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA. A collection of photographs and ephemera from the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles, as follows: image 7
CURTIS STUDIO LOS ANGELES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA. A collection of photographs and ephemera from the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles, as follows: image 8
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CURTIS STUDIO LOS ANGELES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA.
A collection of photographs and ephemera from the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles, as follows:

The Curtis Studio: Important Photographs and Ephemera from a Distinguished Private Collection
30 June – 1 July 2021, 16:00 PDT
Los Angeles

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CURTIS STUDIO LOS ANGELES: PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA.

A collection of photographs and ephemera from the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles, as follows:
19 silver gelatin prints, 5 x 7 inches, unsigned but numbered and/or labeled on the verso by Curtis staff, many from the 1927 Alaska expedition: 242 "Jewel Guard in Bay"; 87 "Boat & crew stranded on sand Islands, located thirty miles out in the ocean off Cape Romanoff"; "Vernal Falls"; "Crater Lake 3900B"; 51 "Typical Girl of Nunivak Island"' ; 55 "Nunivak Island Beauty"; 103 "Nunivak Island Native in Rain Parka"; 275 "King Island Homes"; 262 "View of King Island Homes"; 111 "Woman and Child, Nunivak"; 146 "Wife of the Nunivak Island Chief in Reindeer Parka"; "Piegan Willows Ceremony"; "Piegan Sun Dance?"; 2748 "On the Little Big Horn / Crow"; X2070 "Woman of the Desert"; X-3020 "The Fisherman, Southern Miwak"; 1090 "Out of the Darkness"; 1164 with note indicating this plate number also given to "Acoma Water Carrier" (but this plate appears to be broken).
11 silver gelatin prints signed or numbered in the plate, 8 x 10 inches, likely printed later. [portrait of a child, 2 copies]; X-853 "Indians in Canoe"; X-688 "A Hopi Still Life"; X-677 "Hopi Girls Carrying Water"; 837 "Indian Woman Washing Clothes-1898"; X-725 "The Trial at the Gap. First Mesa"; X-715 "Hopi Man"; X-1860 "The Bathing Pool"; X-1920 "Before the Storm"; X-642 "Blood Lodge, Piegan."
2 silver gelatin prints, 7 x 9 inches, unsigned but labeled on the verso: X-1953 "Geronimo, Apache"; X-1666 "Water Carriers at Taos."
3 silver gelatin prints, 4 x 5 inches, unsigned but labeled on the verso. 125 "Eskimo Party Going Up the Nokatak Fishing"; 688 "Nunivak Fishing"; 21 "Duck Skin Parkas."
8 silver gelatin prints of Curtis and his family members, 8 x 10 inches, images by other unknown photographers (but possibly Mag Magnusen or Curtis Studio employees).
A collection of Los Angeles Curtis Studios printed labels for some of the most popular orotones, including The Vanishing Race, Before the Storm, Aphrodite, The Chief of Crater Lake, Canon del Muerto, The Clam Digger, and four others.
A typed poem on Curtis Studio letterhead, written in honor of an employee's birthday and signed by current roster of staff.
Provenance: Purchased by Dr. Billy Utley from Manford "Mag" Magnuson.

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ARCHITECTURE - ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL Manuscript planning brief for work under the supervision of Inigo Jones, [c.1631]
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