Edward Sheriff Curtis

Edward Sheriff Curtis was an American ethnologist and later photographer of various Native American cultures as well as the American West. He has an extensive collection of images that were all said to have originally been printed using the cyanotype method. I was curious as why he chose to do so but really admired his images. I was also very curious about the first image which looks like it has some faded writing in the background.

Link: http://www.edwardcurtis.com/collectors-guide/