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.
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).
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