At the Old Well at Acoma 8" x 10" Orotone On Glass Plate in Batwing Frame, 1904, by Edward S. Curtis....

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At the Old Well at Acoma 8" x 10" Orotone On Glass Plate in Batwing Frame, 1904, by Edward S. Curtis. Orotone (goldtone) 8" x 10" on glass plate of The Vanishing Race, (16:571) 1904, in original pie crust gilt gesso 11-¼" x 13-¼" batwing frame by Edward S. Curtis, with CURTIS L.A. signature in the negative, right, Edward S. Curtis Studio, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. Format comprising less than ¼ to ½ of one percent of Curtis' output and Curtis most favored format among 50,000 negatives printed. Reproduced in Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, the Complete Portfolios, Taschen, 1997, Vol. XVI, p. 621; The North American Indian, Portfolio XVI, p. 571 (Curtis' original caption reads: Members of Coronado's army of explorers in 1540 and Espejo in 1583 noted the 'cisterns to collect snow and water' on the rock of Acoma); Christopher Cardozo, Native Nations: First Americans As Seen by Edward S. Curtis, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1993, p. 48; and Christopher Cardozo, Edward Curtis: One Hundred Masterworks, Delmonico Books/ Prestel, 2015, p. 148. Very Fine, with chipping to the frame side right.

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