Investor Bill Miller Gifts $4.2 M. Edward Curtis Archive to Penn – ARTnews.com
Veteran investor and philanthropist Bill Miller has given an archive of rare photographic plates by Edward S. Curtis to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia. The Maryland-based investor’s gift includes 151 glass plates produced by Curtis, one of the most prolific photographers active in the first half of the 20th century. The images derive from Curtis’ three-decade long stint photographing more than eighty ...