Walapai Indian school at Kingman, Arizona, ca.1900

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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= ".

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Title Walapai Indian school at Kingman, Arizona, ca.1900

Subject educational facilities (adlf), Indians -- Pima (file heading), Indians -- Walapai (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Pima Indians (lcsh), Schools (lcsh), Students (lcsh), Teachers (lcsh), Walapai Indians (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), Kingman (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 5 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15852

Identifier 3188 (accession number), CHS-3188 (call number), CHS-3188 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14572 (legacy record id), chs-m15852 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13956 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13998 (legacy record id), 1-183- (microfiche number), 1-184- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14572

Unique identifier UC144294

Legacy Identifier CHS-3188.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 36.0 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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