Children of Holy Cross Mission – Antique Print
![Children of Holy Cross Mission, [between ca. 1900 and 1916] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4a/4af1ec2fea8a-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Children of Holy Cross Mission comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Children of Holy Cross Mission
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Holy Cross Mission stood on the lower Yukon River in western Alaska, and this group portrait shows a cluster of girls from the mission community. The Catholic mission was founded in 1888 and served the Yup'ik people of the region, with Jesuit priests and Sisters of St. Ann running its schools and daily life. The photograph is part of the Frank and Frances Carpenter collection, assembled by a husband-and-wife team of travel writers who documented distant places for American readers. Pictures like this one, dated between about 1900 and 1916, offer a glimpse of how mission schools shaped the lives of Alaska Native children during that period.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1900 and 1916] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1920.Group portraits 1890-1920.Photographic prints 1890-1920. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951. |
| Subjects | Girls--Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)--1890-1920. Missions--Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)--1890-1920.United States--Alaska--Yukon River |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 879 × 696 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-209036 |
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