Edward S. Curtis

Edward Sheriff Curtis was an American ethnologist and photographer of the American West and of Native American peoples.

Edward Curtis was born on February 16, 1868 on a farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin. His father, the Reverend Asahel Johnson Curtis , was a minister, farmer, and American Civil War veteran born in Ohio. His mother, Ellen Sheriff , was born in Pennsylvania. Curtiss siblings were Raphael , also called Ray Edward, called Eddy Eva and Asahel Curtis . Weakened by his experiences in the Civil War, Johnson Curtis had difficulty in managing his farm, resulting in hardship and poverty for his family.

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