Correspondence and drawings from students, business records and official correspondence accumulated by A.W. Smith while teaching in La Push, Neah Bay, and Mora, Washington (Territory and State). Significant correspondents include Myron Eells, Samuel G...
Description:
A.W. Smith was a teacher in the United States Indian School Service, and established a school in La Push, Washington Territory in 1882.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State), La Push (Wash.), Neah Bay (Wash.), and Mora (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Smith, A.W. (Allison W.)
Subject (Topic):
Quileute Indians, Social life and customs, Makah Indians, Indians of North America, Children's art, Education, and Indian agents
11 manuscript letters, most signed, documenting the work of early missionaries in Oregon. Most of the letters from Harvey Clark are addressed to fellow unaffiliated missionary Alvin T. Smith. Clark describes his overland journey to Oregon Territory,...
Description:
Harvey Clark (1807-1858) was a missionary and pioneer in Oregon. Born in Vermont, Clark trained as a stone mason before studying theology at Oberlin College. Clark and his wife Emmeline Caldwell Clark went to Oregon as unaffiliated missionaries in 18...
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon. and Oregon
Subject (Name):
Clark, Emmeline Caldwell., Clark, Harvey, 1807-1858., Littlejohn, P. B., Munger, Asahel., Smith, Alvin Thompson, 1802-1888., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., and Tualatin Academy.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Education, Missions Oregon, Missionaries, Missions, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Pioneers, and Discovery and exploration
Correspondence relating to Jonathan Edwards's mission to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Includes a letter from Edwards to Elisha Williams stating the reasons why Abigail Williams Sergeant Dwight should not be made headmistress of a Native American female...
Description:
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a theologian and leader of the Great Awakening. He served as minister of the Congregationalist Church at Northampton, Massachusetts from 1726-1750 and became a missionary to the Mahican and Mohawk Indians at Stockbridg...
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts, Stockbridge, United States, Massachusetts., and Stockbridge (Mass.)
Calvinism, Clergy, Dissenters, Religious, Girls' schools, Indians of North America, Education, Missions, Mahican Indians, Missions, American, Mohawk Indians, Off-reservation boarding schools, Stockbridge Indians, Women, Women school principals, and Church history
Photograph album of unidentified views of Indian men dancing and running races, women with children, and Indian children at school, including "before and after" photographs and class portraits
Photograph album relating to the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona. Included are views of both male and female students as they participate in several activities, among them a dress parade, a gardening project at the school, the girls' basketb...
Description:
C. W. Goodman was superintendent of the Phoenix Indian School between 1902 and 1915.
Correspondence, loose manuscript and typescript pages, a scrapbook, and two photograph albums related to Samuel M. McCowan’s time as superintendent of the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona, and efforts creating the “Model Indian School” exhibi...
Description:
Samuel M. McCowan (1863-1924) was superintendent of the Fort Mojave Industrial School from 1890 to 1896 and Phoenix Indian School from 1897 to 1902 (both in Arizona), as well as the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma after 1902. In 1904, McCowan was r...
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona., Oklahoma., Arizona, Phoenix (Ariz.), and Saint Louis (Mo.)
Subject (Name):
McCowan, Samuel M., Chilocco Indian School., Phoenix Indian School, and Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Photograph album with photographs taken by an unidentified photographer of the Navajo Methodist Mission School (later known as the Navajo Mission Academy and presently known as the Navajo Preparatory School) in Farmington, New Mexico, circa 1920s-1930...
Description:
No linguistic content.
Subject (Geographic):
New Mexico and Farmington (N.M.)
Subject (Name):
Navajo Methodist Mission School (Farmington, N.M.)
Subject (Topic):
Indian school children, Indians of North America, Education, Navajo children, Navajo Indians, and Students
Photographs that document the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona, circa 1902. The collection includes an illustrated invitation printed by the H. H. McNeil Company to the commencement exercises for the school that occurred May 20-22, 1902, whic...
Description:
Hartwell & Hamaker was a photographic studio in Phoenix, Arizona, circa 1890-1906, that included partners Francis A. Hartwell (born 1852) and Harry Lee Hamaker (1863-1939).
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona and Phoenix (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Hamaker, Harry Lee, 1863-1939., Hartwell, Francis A., 1852-, H. H. McNeil Company., Hartwell & Hamaker., and Phoenix Indian School
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Cultural assimilation, Education, and Schools
