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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a classroom of students with their teachers inside a Walapai Indian school at Kingman, Arizona, circa 1900. The school (1st-4th grades) is directed by Mr. Murphy (standing in the white suit in back?). Perspective is from the front of the classroom looking towards the back. About 45 barefoot students are sitting 4 or 5 each to about 8 benches and desks, or standing along the back walls. Girls are to the left, boys to the right. Several pictures hang on the plastered walls. Hats are hung on the back and side (left) walls. Writing on the side and back wall list the classes and show math exercises. Writing tablets and a few books sit on each desk. The ceiling is wood on the left and plastered on the right. The floor is made of bare wood planks. A square metal[?] box attached to the center of the ceiling has a round opening for insertion of a stove pipe (absent) in the bottom. Legible writing on the walls includes: "Fourth grade: James -- How the Summer came Ben -- The young hunter Chris -- How the rain comes Bruce -- The rainbow Fanny -- A story about mice [...] -- The [...] and its ways Grace -- A story about a parrot Lily -- About the swan Fred -- The star that became a lily Ne[..] -- The north wind and the [...]", "Third grade: [...]rk -- A story about the B[...] [...]n -- The little brown baby Marie -- Agooneck and the long darkness David -- The boot black and his dog Philip -- The dog and the shadow Harley -- About the goat [...]achela -- The little dark girl", "Second grade: John -- A story about the cranes Paul -- A story about the stork Davy -- The owl and the cat Tom -- More about geese Harry -- The mouse and the [...] Nora -- Bed in Summer John -- The race of the trees Maggie -- The frog Ruth -- The baby bird Trude -- The [...] in the g[...]", "First grade: The fox and the stork What do [...] 88) 45480 [divided by] 6 [equals] 7580", 5+5= , [...]+7= , [...]+6= , [...]+8= , [...]+10= , [...]+9= , [...], 10-5= , 8-5= , 7-5= , 9-5= , 6-5= , 5-5= , 10-6= , 8-6= , 7-6= , [...]-6= , [...]-7= , [...]-7= , [...]= , [...]= , [...]= , [...]= , [...]= , [...]-9= , [...]-10= ".
Type
image
Format
5 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprints, b&w 17 x 22 cm., 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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