Edward Sheriff Curtis
As It Was In The Old Days

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • As It Was In The Old Days
  • from the series The North American Indian, Volume 19
Date1927
Place depictedUnited States
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 11 3/8 × 15 1/2 in. (28.9 × 39.4 cm)
Sheet: 17 15/16 × 21 7/8 in. (45.6 × 55.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number74.42
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[James Flury and Walter Reinhard, Buda, Texas]; purchased by MFAH, 1974.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
printed center below image "From Copyright Photograph 1927 by E.S.Curtis"
printed bottom right edge below image "Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge, Mass."
bottom left below image "AS IT WAS IN THE OLD DAYS"
printed top left edge above image "Plate 652"

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