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Title
Ranks of Yuma Indian boys and girls posed in front of the government Indian School at Yuma, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 ranks of about 50 Yuma Indian boys and about 50 Yuma Indian girls standing in front of the government Indian School at Yuma, ca.1900. The boys all wear identical uniforms with caps. The girls all wear identical dresses of a dotted pattern. Boys stand in 6 lines on the left, the girls in 6 lines on the right, with an aisle up the middle. The one-story wooden schoolhouse with a wraparound porch is visible behind them.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
8 x 10 in.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16146 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3536
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16146
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3536.jpg
Subject
Indians of North America
Children
Yuma Indians
Schools
Indians of North America--Portraits
Indians
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Arizona
USA
Yuma
Source
1-184- [Microfiche number]
3536 [Accession number]
CHS-3536 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m265

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