We offer the following fine original sepia tissue gravure photograph: AN OLD MAN OF WAIYAM, 1910 from Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian. Published originally in 20 volumes between 1907 and 1930, limited to five hundred copies. These volumes contain a total of 1500 photographs which were printed on a variety of papers: tissue, japan, Holland, etc. Of the five hundred sets, only approximately one hundred were issued with plates on tissue paper. We guarantee all our items as authentic. This is a vintage image, not a reprint removed (not by us) from one of the original volumes. Please check out our many Curtis photographs on ebay this week! SIZE:  sheet size: 12 x 9 inches plate size approximately 8 x 6 inches PAPER TYPE: Tissue paper tipped on to Vangelder paper. CONDITION: Fine, usual offsetting/tanning to backing paper. NOTES: Edward Curtis (1868-1952) was offered $75,000 by J. P. Morgan to produce a series on the North American Indian. The project took over 25 years and eventually cost well in excess of half a million dollars to produce. Curtis issued 20 volumes containing 1500 images from 1907 to 1930 and an additional 720 folio-sized images that were issued in 36 portfolios of 20 images apiece.  The 20 volumes were limited to 500 copies, although only about 300 of these were ever bound up and sold. The photographs were printed on a variety of paper types, and it has been speculated by experts that only about twenty percent were published on tissue paper, a kind of paper long held in high esteem by photographers for its capacity to reproduce subtle and nuanced gradations of tone, light and depth. PROVENANCE: We have been asked where all these great photographs came from. They are part of a wonderful library of Western Americana and Native American books and prints that we purchased here in Western Pennsylvania. The family's parents were collectors who were especially interested in 19th century Native American culture. They had Navajo rugs, jewelry, Acoma pottery (we didn't get any of that!), books, photographs, and prints. There were McKenney and Hall folio lithographs, Bodmer prints, Catlin folios, and these loose Curtis photogravures. They must have bought them already removed from the volumes because, as far as we can tell, they were not the kind to cut prints out if the volumes could be had complete. We purchased somewhat over 200 Curtis photographs from the family. They did not have any of the folio-sized photographs. We wish this kind of collection comes our way more often, but we've been blessed to handle these great items! TERMS: Paypal, Visa, MC, checks, W-Union, money orders in US dollars. Postage 10.00 in USA; other countries calculated at point of sale (most European countries we can send to for $18.00 airmail, insured, registered). Combined postage on multiple purchases. Returnable if not as described for full refund. We've been in the rare book and print business for nearly a quarter century so bid with confidence that you will get what is described. Our feedback says it all.