Asahel Curtis (1874-1941) was the younger, and in some ways more accomplished, brother of noteworthy photographer of Edward Curtis. Asahel (pronounced A'-shul), the less pretentious of the two, created a veritable photographic archive of the young and growing state of Washington over the pivotal period from the Klondike gold rush to World War II.

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