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Title
Government Navajo Indian school, Tohatchi, New Mexico, 1901
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1901
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of the Government Navajo Indian school, Tohatchi, New Mexico, 1901. The large one-story brick building sits at the top of a rise. Eleven windows punctuate the long facade
nine windows and a door on the short end. A woman and several children are on the wooden stairs leading from the door. A round stone tower supports a wooden water tank to the right of the school. A few small trees grow in the foreground near a scattering of rocks. Hills rise in the background under a cloudy sky.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15905
USC-1-1-1-13946 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3251
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15905
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3251.jpg
Subject
Indians--Navajo
Indians of North America
Navajo Indians
Children
Schools
Educational facilities
Time Period
1901
Place
McKinley
New Mexico
Tohatchi Indian Reservation
Gallup
USA
Source
1-172- [Microfiche number]
3251 [Accession number]
CHS-3251 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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