American Decades
Documenting the Eskimos
My Eskimo Friends
Memoir
By: Robert Joseph Flaherty
Date: 1922
Source: Flaherty, Robert J. My Eskimo Friends. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924, 133–136.
Scene from Nanook of the North
Film still
By: Robert Joseph Flaherty
Date: 1922
Source: The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.
About the Author: Robert Joseph Flaherty (1884–1951), was an explorer, prospector, mapmaker, and pioneering documentary filmmaker. His acclaimed Nanook of the North (1922) and subsequent film work earned him the title of "the father of the documentary." Born in Iron Mountain, Michigan, Flaherty grew up in isolated mining towns and camps, learning to hunt and track from Native American friends. He met his future wife, Frances Hubbard, while attending Michigan College of Mines. She...
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1920's The Arts Primary Sources
- "The New O'Neill Play"
- New York Dada
- Documenting the Eskimos
- Selections from The Book of American Negro Poetry
- Art of Alfred Stieglitz
- Bessie Smith's Blues
- "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective"
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Dempsey and Firpo
- Calder's Circus
- The General
- The Jazz Singer
- "Blue Skies"
- "Far from Well"
- Steamboat Willie
- Lulu in Hollywood
- Blood Memory
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1920's: Primary Sources
