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EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 624 Cree Tipis, 1926. 15.5x11.8" image on 17.8x13.2" copper photogravure plate. Plate date 1928. From Portfolio 18, Northern Woodlands and Alberta, Canada, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Plate 624 / Cree Tipis, 1926 / From Copyright Photograph 1926 by E.S. Curtis / Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge Mass. To make the photogravure prints from the negative Curtis created a glass positive, that he would edit on and then working with the great photogravure printing companies in Boston, John Andrew & Son that became Suffolk Engraving Company, they made over 2200 copper plates from which the photogravures were to be printed. These plates were then steel faced for small printing runs then refaced, preserving the original image that was etched into the copper plate. Aesthetically they are brilliant shiny copper almost gold like aesthetic objects on which the image glows; they have sold for as much as $700,000. As opposed the edition of approximately 300 photogravures that were made from each plate and open edition chemical prints Curtis made in his studios, these are unique photographic objects.