Indian School 1 Cherokee, North Carolina, 1909 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Indian School 1 Cherokee, North Carolina, 1909, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Government Indian School, Cherokee, N.C.
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Indian School 1 Cherokee, North Carolina, 1909
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Cherokee, North Carolina, in 1909 was the seat of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, whose people had stayed in the southern Appalachians after the forced removals of the 1830s and held their land on the Qualla Boundary. The Indian School, run by the federal Indian Service, was meant to teach children English and practical trades, and for many families it was also a place where children were separated from home for long stretches. Life on the reservation rested on small farming, craft work such as basketry, and wage labor, while the logging and timber industry was expanding through the surrounding mountain counties. This photograph shows the school's students and grounds as the Cherokee community lived through that period of schooling policy and economic change.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | pelton, herbert w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--North Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,391 × 1,373 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Government Indian School, Cherokee, N.C. |
| Reference | NC 1909 Indian School 1 Cherokee |
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