Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Intimate life story of a vanishing race is told by Edward S. Curtis, author of The North American Indian : lecture illustrated with Mr. Curtis' own incomparable art slides, vivid motion pictures, special Indian music rendered by full orchestra traveling with Mr. Curtis.

Accession number
PML 199104
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1911-1912]
Notes
"No. 03601B"--Bottom left corner.
Presumably issued as promotional material for Curtis's series of appearances slated to occur between October 1911 and May 1912--what came to be known as Curtis's "traveling picture opera" or "picture musicale"--advertised in mid-1911 by New York booking agent William B. Feakins.
Henry E. Gilbert, the composer of the "special Indian music," later published five piano pieces titled "Indian scenes : from the incidental music to The Story of a Vanishing Race by Edward S. Curtis (author of The North American Indian)." cf. Egan, T. Short nights of the shadow catcher.
Printed in two parts on heavy cardstock.
Description
1 print : lithograph, color ; sheet 35 x 55.6 cm
Summary
Poster advertising Curtis's multi-media lecture series, organized for the purpose of raising funds for the continuing publication of The North American Indian (1907-1930).
Classification
Department