Indian boys at Holy Cross Mission - Red" McConnell" – Antique Wall Art
![Indian boys at Holy Cross Mission - Red" McConnell", [between 1901 and 1903] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7b/7ba7bc4cf362-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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A window into the past: Indian boys at Holy Cross Mission - Red" McConnell", preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Indian boys at Holy Cross Mission - Red" McConnell"
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A boy identified on the original caption card as "Red" McConnell stands among his schoolmates at the Holy Cross Mission, an Episcopal mission on the lower Yukon River in western Alaska. The record dates the picture only to a span of 1901 to 1903, and the names come from an old caption card that has not been verified. The print comes from the William "Billy" Mitchell Collection and was reproduced in Mitchell's *Opening of Alaska*, a book from the period when outsiders were writing extensively about the territory's mines, missions, and transportation routes. Mission boarding schools of this era often brought together children from many Yup'ik and other Native communities, so the photograph offers a glimpse of that institutional life.
| Created / published | [between 1901 and 1903] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from old caption card. William (Billy") Mitchell Collection. Photo reproduced in Mitchell's Opening of Alaska |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129184 |
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