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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.
Edward S. Curtis was born near Whitewater, Wisconsin, but he was raised in Minnesota. In 1887, he moved to the Pacific Northwest to help establish a family homestead near Puget Sound.1