Performing Archive Main Menu Visualizing the “Vanishing Race”: the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis Front Page for Visualizing the "Vanishing Race" path Curtis' Image and Life: The Network of The North American Indian, Inc. An experiment with data visualization approach to understand and contextualize Curtis' images and his life Media, Technology and Mediations Curtis's Technology, Relationships to Media and Style Contextualizing Curtis, The North American Indian, and Race the collection of essays from the contributors Consulting with Tribes as Part of Archive Development Introduction to Consulting with Tribes by Ulia Gosart Contributing Archives Information on how to participate in Performing Archive Browsing the Media A path of paths that allow users to cut through the collection in a variety of ways. Acknowledgements and Project Information Project Network

Historical Readings

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Ulia Gosart, Independent scholar

1684 "The New Division of the Earth According to the different Types or Races of Men Who Inhabit It" by François Bernier

1735 "Systema Naturae" by Carl Linnaeus

1749 "Of the Varieties of the Human Species" by Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon 

1775 (rewritten in 1781, 1795) "On the Natural Variety of Mankind" by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach 

1839 "Crania Americana; or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed An Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species" by Samuel Morton 

1848 "The Natural History of the Human Species" by Charles Smith

1861 "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" by Charles Darwin

1864 "Principles of Biology" by Herbert Spencer

1871 "The Descent of Man" by Charles Darwin

1871 "The Primitive Culture" by Edward Taylor 

1899 "The Philadelphia Negro: a Social Study" by W. E. B. Du Bois

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  1. Who's "Vanishing"? - Curtis' Ideas on Race and his Work Erik Loyer