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Edward S. Curtis
Self-portrait, photogravure by Edward S. Curtis, 1899; in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The number of subscribers who purchased The North American Indian was fewer than 250. Due to the high cost of the leather-bound volumes, the set was primarily accessible to the very wealthy and major libraries.12