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Edward S. Curtis' North American Indian at The Library of Congress

The Library of Congress' American Memory program seeks to make major LOC collections available to the public via the Internet. These completely indexed and catalogued collections are a great resource for everyone, from the research scholar to the interest amatuer.

The Curtis collection consists of thousands of photographs of the various tribes of Native Americans. Curtis sought to record the remains of their cultures before they were nearly completed subsumed by contact with Anglo and Spanish explorers.