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Little Daylight – Vintage Wall Art

Little Daylight, c1905. — historic photograph
Little Daylight, c1905.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Little Daylight is one of the portraits Edward S. Curtis made around 1905, when he was building the photographic survey that would become *The North American Indian*. The sitter wears a feathered headdress, the detail the record singles out, and the tight framing keeps attention on his face and regalia rather than on a setting. Curtis often posed his subjects in traditional dress, and his choices about costume, lighting and pose shaped how these images were received. The record does not say how this particular sitting was arranged, so viewers today read it both as a document of Native American life in the early twentieth century and as a product of Curtis's own artistic decisions.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesCurtis no. 275-05. LC no. 66. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsLittle Daylight. Indians of North America--1900-1910. Headdresses--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,088 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129140

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