Quechan Indian photograph collection, ca. 1895-1900.

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Quechan Indian photograph collection, ca. 1895-1900.

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Copy prints and facsimile album made from a photograph album titled "Yuma Look Within" and assembled by Ada Millican in 1900. The photographs, mostly of poor quality, show the Yuma Indian School buildings, employees, and students, Yuma men, women and children, and homes on the Quechan Indian Reservation. Highlights are photographs of students in classrooms including home economics (laundry, sewing) and shop classes, and a wailing ceremony for a dead child. There are also images of basket weaving, grinding mesquite, a weather station, and the Territorial Prison.

.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7551633

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Fort Yuma Indian School

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The Fort Yuma Indian School was located on the site of a former Civil War fort, which was tranferred to the Quechan Indian Tribe and the Department of the Interior in 1884. It was operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet on behalf of the United States government from 1886 to 1900. Control of the school was officially tranferred from the Department of the Interior to the Sisters of St. Joseph on April 5, 1886, and the sisters began holding classes in the fall of 1886. The first superin...

Millican, Ada P.

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Arizona Territorial Prison

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Millican, Ada B.

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Ada Millican may have been an Indian school employee. From the description of Quechan Indian photograph collection, ca. 1895-1900. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 45242963 ...