Edward Curtis, The North American Indian Volume XI, 1916

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A remarkable sale offering selections from the world’s most significant collection of Edward S. Curtis vintage photography and ephemera, including some of the rarest images available today and a complete original set of volumes of The North American Indian. Santa Fe Art Auction info@santafeartauction.com

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• Lot Description
  Edward S. Curtis
  (1868 - 1952)
  The North American Indian Volume XI, 1916
  Individual volume on Holland Van Gelder etching stock
  Nootka, Haida
  
  The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Volume XI. Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Fredrick Webb Hodge. Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1916.
  
  LIMITED EDITION: This volume is numbered 48 of an unfulfilled edition of 500, on handmade Holland Van Gelder etching stock, quarto, top edges gilt, original ¾ brown crushed levant by H. Blackwell of Boston, over beige linen-covered boards, original gilt lettered, raised paneled spines, ribbon bookmarks, with photogravure plates by John Andrew & Son of Boston after photographs by Edward S. Curtis, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan.
  
  TEXT VOLUME: 75 photogravures, including 1 hand-colored print. Over 230 pages of text and transcriptions of language and music. Hand letterpress printed on hand-made paper. Hand-bound.
  
  Provenance:
  Edward S. Curtis Studio
  Charles Arthur Moore, Jr.
  By descent to family
  The Christopher G. Cardozo Collection, 2019
  
  This set of “The North American Indian,” number 48, by Edward Sherriff Curtis comes directly from the hands of the photographer, through four generations of the Moore (Close) family, to the hands of the buyer. The books keenly represent that period in American history when industrialization conquered the nation’s wild lands and clashed with its indigenous peoples, and for purposes of provenance it should be known that the man who acquired them from Curtis himself embodied both industry and a deep reverence for nature and the American West.
  The books were purchased from Edward S. Curtis by the seller’s great grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore, Jr. of Greenwich, Connecticut. Moore was a Greenwich native, a humanist, and an industrialist who became president of his father’s metal products manufacturing company Manning Maxwell & Moore that built parts such as gauges, valves, and hoists for cranes and trains. Moore’s New York City office was in the Chrysler Building just below the gargoyles.
  Born 23rd of June, 1880, in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Charles A. Moore, Sr. and Mary Campbell Moore, his siblings were Mary Elsie Moore who married Italian prince Don Marino Torlonia, 4th prince of Civitella-Cesi; Eugene Maxwell Moore who married Titanic survivor Margaret Graham; and Jessie Ann Moore who married US Navy Admiral Colby Mitchell Chester.
  Moore married twice, first to Annette Sperry of Nashville with whom he had three children and divorced in 1919, then to Elizabeth Hyde (1897-1983), daughter of Seymour Jairus Hyde and his wife Elizabeth Worrall. The Hyde’s were also wealthy industrialists whose company, A.G. Hyde & Sons Co. manufactured dry goods such as the Heatherbloom petticoats, and advertised with the first moving sign on Times Square.
  Charles and Elizabeth, who was known as Betty, had two children: John Campbell Moore (1921-1943), who died in active service with the 853d Engineer Battalion while being transported on the H.M.T. Rohna in World War II; and Bettine Moore, to whom the Curtis books later belonged.
  Moore was educated at St. Paul’s school and graduated Yale class of ’03. He was with the Montenegrin Army for some months during the Balkan War, then served throughout WWI, commanding in France the Old Twelfth Company of Greenwich attached to the 56th Artillery, A. E. F. He retired at the conclusion of the war with the rank of Major.
  A life member of American Museum of Natural history, Moore contributed specimens to the institution, like a mountain goat he shot in northern Rockies near the Columbia River in 1904, among others. He was also a member of New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) and the National Geographic Society, as well as many manufacturing groups.
  Moore was a physically imposing man, a great lover of nature, a deeply devoted father, and the owner of a self-sustaining 168-acre farm/estate in Greenwich called Mooreland, on Mooreland Road, at which he hosted the Highland Games every summer. He had a wide and eclectic circle of friends of many ethnicities.
  An avid photographer, he shot both stills and movies, a collection of which the family retains. Many photographs depict beautiful natural scenes, or holidays to places like Cuba and dude ranches in the west. The reels of black and white film that he shot portray his family life (Johnny and Bettine as children, the Highland games, etc.), and travels during the 1920’s – 40’s.
  
  EARLY INFLUENCE & LATER EXPEDITIONS
  In the fall of 1883, at the tender age of three, Arthur, as Charles, Jr. was known to his family, made a trans-continental trip by train on the Northern Pacific Railroad from New York City to Portland, Oregon with his parents. This was the very year the tracks were laid.
  One of his father’s letters from the journey, dated September 29, 1883 reads, "Yesterday Arthur shook hands through the window with an Indian Brave in War paint.” This telling scene took pace in Billings, Montana, which at the time was still a territory. The Indian man was most likely Cheyenne, Crow, or Lakota Sioux.
  To put it into perspective, the Battle of the Little Big Horn/Battle of the Greasy Grass, otherwise known as Custer’s Last Stand, which took place just south of Billings, had happened only a few years prior, in 1876. Although the Indians won that battle, it was a symbolic win. In a mind-bogglingly short period of time their world had been forever altered. The last wild herds of buffalo had recently been obliterated from the landscape. Tribes were being force onto reservations. Settlers and miners were staking their claims.
  Who was he, the mystery “Indian brave”? We wish we knew, because his touch likely sparked in young Arthur a deep admiration for indigenous Americans and the west that eventually inspired him to sign onto the young Edward Curtis’ courageous venture in photography in 1906.
  Arthur’s early travels—and his father’s international travels and extensive political connections—also inspired him to become an explorer. Besides venturing west, he went north and east. He became dear friends with Captain Bartlett and 1897 journeyed with Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N. to find the geographic North Pole. Moore then took charter of the steam whaler Algerine and spent the summer of 1901 in the Hudson’s Straights and Hudson’s Bay.
  His expedition north and with Peary succeeded in charting new waters and bringing back trophies, like Inuit artifacts and the Cape York meteorite, which is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It is likely that befriending Inuit peoples also compelled him to support Curtis’ work.
  Later, in 1906, Mr. Moore traveled to Arabia, lands then controlled by the Ottoman Empire, including into what is now modern-day Syria, with the day’s most famous political cartoonist, Homer Davenport, whose drawings satirized figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The purpose of the expedition was to bringing back Arabian horses to the United States.
  Davenport had fallen in love with the breed at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893, the first time Arabian horses were on US soil. Moore, also a keen horseman, photographed and documented their expedition to Arabia, playing a key role in bringing some of the earliest desert-bred Arabian mares and stallions to America.
  Moore’s love of animals, wild lands, native peoples, art, and the west, he passed on to his daughter Bettine, wife of Dr. William Taliaferro Close, and mother of actress Glenn Close and her three siblings, and, through them, to his great granddaughter who made the difficult decision to sell the books.
  

  Condition

  This original volume is in very good to excellent condition overall. A formal, detailed condition report is available upon request.
  
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