The Church of the Ascension, summit of Mount of Olives. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Inscribed: 'Frith 1 [remainder cropped].' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the hillside towards the buildings on the skyline.
At the shrine — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Inscription: Inscribed in the negative: 'Copyright 1904 By E.S. Curtis'. Genre: Portrait Photography View of a group of three Navaho with their horses, standing beside a shrine made of stones: 'Scattered about the Navaho reservation are so many cairn shrines. The Navaho, when alone or in parti...
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a round adobe hut inhabited by the Pima of south Arizona, with a figure kneeling at the entrance and hills in the background: 'The old-time dwelling of the Piman tribes. In construction it was much the same as the earth lodge of the tribes of the northern pl...
Façade — San Xavier del Bac mission. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Architectural Photography Side view of the façade of the mission church of San Xavier del Bac, near Tucson, Arizona: 'The Papago are a strong branch of the Piman family living in the narrow valleys of south-central Arizona as far north as Tucson, and the broad desert stretches of norther...
Portal — San Xavier del Bac mission. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the main entrance to the mission church of San Xavier del Bac in Arizona. 'San Xavier del Bac is one of the most beautiful of the old Southwestern mission churches. The mission was founded in 1692; the construction of the present church was commenced in ...
Home of the Havasupai. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of a Havasupai dwelling, with peach trees and a canyon wall beyond. 'The Havasupai dwelling is a dome-shaped framework of poles, sometimes covered with brush and reeds only, in other cases banked well toward the top with earth. The canõn walls shown in the ...
Genre: Portrait Photography View of Sioux horsemen encircling a tipi. 'It was customary for a war-party to ride in circles about the tipi of their chief before starting on a raid into the country of the enemy.'
The winter camp — Sioux. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of a tipi pitched in a snow-filled valley amid bare winter trees: 'With the coming of winter the plains tribes pitched their camps in forested valleys, where they not only were protected from the fierce winds of the plains, but had an ample supply of fuel at ha...