Jack Shiggie – Antique Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Jack Shiggie in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Jack Shiggie
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Edward S. Curtis made this portrait of a man named Jack Shiggie around 1903, and it is numbered 122 in Curtis's own series. The record does not say which community Shiggie belonged to or where the sitting took place, so the picture is best understood through Curtis's broader project. In those years he was building *The North American Indian*, a multivolume survey that paired portraits with ethnographic text and photogravure plates. His close, carefully lit individual portraits became one of its central forms, and today viewers weigh them both for their craft and for the posed, selective picture of Native life they offered an audience of the time.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H33851 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 122. LC no. 32. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Shiggie, Jack. Indians of North America--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,747 × 4,657 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222171 |
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