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President Roosevelt congratulates photographer and ethnologist Edward S. Curtis, and praises the actions of J. Pierpont Morgan. Morgan provided funding for Curtis’s series of books on Native Americans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-06
President Roosevelt thanks Edward S. Curtis for the photographs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-26
Edward Henry Harriman asks President Roosevelt to write something to be included in a catalog for photographer Edward S. Curtis’s exhibit of Indian photographs. Curtis had accompanied Harriman to Alaska a few years earlier.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-01
Gregory A. Wynn explores the life of American photographer Edward S. Curtis who photographed Theodore Roosevelt’s family in 1904 and 1905. Wynn argues that Curtis’s 1904 portrait “is the single best studio photograph” of Roosevelt. Wynn details Curtis’s decades long struggle to photograph, write, and produce his multi-volume The North American Indian, and he highlights the roles played by Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan in promoting and financing the project. In an addendum to his essay, Wynn notes that the Roosevelt collection of his friend Peter Scanlan came to auction, and he highlights the sale of pieces that have been featured in previous editions of his material culture column.
Five Curtis photographs supplement the text along with the title page of The North American Indian and illustrations of three items from the Scanlan auction.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2014