Indians of North America -- Pictorial works
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
George W. Fox Collection of American Indian ledger drawings and photographs
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2893
Abstract:
Ledger drawings by American Indians and photographs collected by George W. Fox, 1867-circa 1885. Ledger drawings in the collection include two discrete disbound volumes created in 1876 by Wohaw, a Kiowa Indian, and Soaring Eagle, a Cheyenne Indian. Photographs include portraits of American Indians and views of Indian Territory by William Stinson Soule, as well as portraits of American Indian students and views by John Nicholas Choate related to the United States Indian School in Carlisle,...
Dates:
1867-circa 1885
Richard Henry Pratt papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1174
Abstract:
The papers primarily relate to Richard Henry Pratt’s work and theories on education as a means of assimilating Native Americans into white American society. This is documented in correspondence, letter-press books, writings, diaries, notes, and photographs. Also included are papers relating to Pratt’s family, responses to Pratt’s work, and documentation about his founding and running the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which removed Native American children from their homes and forced...
Dates:
1862-1972