Edward S Curtis - Starting up the Noatak River - Kotzebue 1928- Photogravure on Holland Van Gelder tissue

Printed plate number, Curtis's title, date, copyright, and photogravures by Edward S Curtis

15-1/2 x 11-5/8 in. tissue, on sheet with margins 19 x 15-1/4 in. Large-format photogravure from The North American Indian, on Holland Van Gelder tissue, with printed plate number, Curtis' title, date, and copyright, and "Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co Cambridge Mass" on recto.

Photogravure is from an album formerly in the collection of Karl Frederick Letsche, a Boston binder who worked with Curtis' printmaker, John Andrews & Son. It contains a selection of plates personally chosen and bound by Letsche.