A rare tissue set of magnum opus, THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN, which descends from William Henry Moore and his brother James Hobart Moore to the Moore Memorial Library. The brothers founded the library in their boyhood home town of Greene, New York, in 1903, in honor of their mother. While the Moores were not as well known as the Carnegies, Morgans, and Harrimans, the family operated in the same social milieu. They were freinds of J.P. Morgan, the visionary industrialist and collector who first sponsored Curtis' comprehensive pictorial chronicle of native life, and next to Morgan, successfully exploited the financial possibilities of industrial mergers in the United States.