For your consideration are twenty-three (23) full-colour prints from the original artwork of Winold Reiss for the Great Northern Railway Co, "The Blackfoot Indian Educational Portfolio". These prints have vibrant colors and amazing details that enhance the physical attributes of each person and their clothing, and "offer an authentic record of how they looked and dressed". Additionally included is the booklet, "The Story Of The Blackfoot Indians A Brief Historical Sketch Of The Blackfoot Indian Nation" by Dr. Claude E. Schaffer, 1958, published by the Great Northern Railway Company. After immigrating to the US from Germany in 1913, Reiss went West in 1920 for the first time, working for a lengthy period on the Blackfeet Reservation. Over the years Reiss painted more than 250 works depicting Native Americans, his first of the Blackfeet was in 1919, the year he was inducted into the tribe and given the name, Beaver Child. These paintings by Reiss became known more widely beginning in the 1920s and to the 1950s, when the Great Nortern Railway commissioned Reiss to do paintings of the Blackfeet which were then distributed widely as lithographed reproductions on Great Northern calendars to promote train travel in the 1920s-1950s. Dr. Schaffer was a former director of the Museum Of The Plains Indian at Browning, Montana, on the Blackfoot Reservation. The prints are in overall good condition. Each print measures 9"W x 12"L. Evidence of scotch tape on reverse of most prints, some age tanning noted, ink pen writing on one reverse side. The booklet jacket is separated from the pages but can be easily re-stapled. Slight tears on jacket, intact pages are clean, slight age tanning., measures 8.5"W x 11"L