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Title
Group of Indian girls posing in front of their dormitory at the Indian Training School in Chemawa, Oregon, 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 a group of Indian girls posing in front of their dormitory at the Indian Training Center in Chemawa, Oregon, ca.1900. Clad in dresses, the girls sit or stand outside the light-colored building, some with umbrellas, and a few with bicycles. A group stands beneath the shade of several tall trees. A large tree-shaped shadow is cast over the foreground, and several more trees lead off into the distance at left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
16 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m21133
USC-1-1-1-13437 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-46812
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m21133
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-46812.jpg
Subject
Indians--General
Indians of North America
Children
Schools
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Chemawa
Oregon
USA
Source
46812 [Accession number]
CHS-46812 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 3074 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265
Provenance
Southwest Native American Photograph Collection

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