Lot of 11 albumen boudoir card photographs, each on 8.5 x 5.25 in. mount, with recto imprint of Davidson of Portland, OR, and verso hand stamp reading: Indian Training School, Forest Grove, Oregon. / Capt. M.C. Wilkinson, U.S.A., in Charge, plus descriptions of the posed scenes featured, including: Group of Alaska Boys; Group of Piute, Wasco and Warm Spring Indians; Group of Girls; Group of Spokane Children as they arrived at School; Housekeeping; Shoemaking; Blacksmithing; Carpenters at Work; School Scene; an untitled view of all the students together; and an untitled view of the students scattered about the school grounds. In 1880, the U.S. Government oversaw construction of the Forest Grove Indian Industrial and Training School, which, along with the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, was one of the first off-reservation institutions of its type in the nation. The school opened on the grounds of Pacific University in Oregon, and Civil War veteran and former aide-de-camp to General O.O. Howard, Lieut. Melville C. Wilkinson, served as its first superintendent. Following a fire that damaged a number of its buildings in 1885, the Forest Grove school moved to a farm site near Salem where more land was available, and although the school was briefly called the Harrison Institute, it was renamed Chemawa Indian School, after a local band of Kalapuya Indians. The earliest students to attend Forest Grove and Salem were Native youth from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, and the students earned money, which was used to purchase acreage for the institution. They also took part in the construction of both campuses. Both younger and older students were recruited as the school grew, and oftentimes, entire families were enrolled. In addition, Indian Agents from reservations in the western states as well as missionaries in Alaska sent children, including orphans, to the training school, sometimes separating them from their families. By the early 20th Century, Chemawa, among other federal boarding schools evolved into nearly self-supporting communities that offered American Indian families rewarding training opportunities in the industrial arts and other fields. (Information obtained from the Oregon Encylopedia Website, May 15, 2013.) Condition: Prints are near-excellent.
Lot of 11 albumen boudoir card photographs, each on 8.5 x 5.25 in. mount, with recto imprint of Davidson of Portland, OR, and verso hand stamp reading: Indian Training School, Forest Grove, Oregon. / Capt. M.C. Wilkinson, U.S.A., in Charge, plus descriptions of the posed scenes featured, including: Group of Alaska Boys; Group of Piute, Wasco and Warm Spring Indians; Group of Girls; Group of Spokane Children as they arrived at School; Housekeeping; Shoemaking; Blacksmithing; Carpenters at Work; School Scene; an untitled view of all the students together; and an untitled view of the students scattered about the school grounds. In 1880, the U.S. Government oversaw construction of the Forest Grove Indian Industrial and Training School, which, along with the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, was one of the first off-reservation institutions of its type in the nation. The school opened on the grounds of Pacific University in Oregon, and Civil War veteran and former aide-de-camp to General O.O. Howard, Lieut. Melville C. Wilkinson, served as its first superintendent. Following a fire that damaged a number of its buildings in 1885, the Forest Grove school moved to a farm site near Salem where more land was available, and although the school was briefly called the Harrison Institute, it was renamed Chemawa Indian School, after a local band of Kalapuya Indians. The earliest students to attend Forest Grove and Salem were Native youth from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, and the students earned money, which was used to purchase acreage for the institution. They also took part in the construction of both campuses. Both younger and older students were recruited as the school grew, and oftentimes, entire families were enrolled. In addition, Indian Agents from reservations in the western states as well as missionaries in Alaska sent children, including orphans, to the training school, sometimes separating them from their families. By the early 20th Century, Chemawa, among other federal boarding schools evolved into nearly self-supporting communities that offered American Indian families rewarding training opportunities in the industrial arts and other fields. (Information obtained from the Oregon Encylopedia Website, May 15, 2013.) Condition: Prints are near-excellent.
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