A visit to the original site of the Indian Training School in Forest Grove

Title

A visit to the original site of the Indian Training School in Forest Grove

Description

A group portrait of students and staff from Chemawa School, visiting the original site of the Indian Training School in Forest Grove, showing the remains of one of the school workshops in the background. At the time when this picture was taken, the school had been relocated to Salem and renamed Chemawa. In this photo are Edwin L. Chalcraft, second from right, and Alice P. Chalcraft, his daughter, seated in front with a white hat. Edwin Chalcraft was the superintendent of Chemawa School from 1894-1895 and 1904-1911. This photograph was probably taken around 1910, by which time both of the school's original dormitories had been destroyed, leaving only a few rickety outbuildings on the site of the former campus.
This image is a copy of an earlier version of the photograph. It is most likely based on an original lantern slide located in the Chalcraft-Pickering Photographs collection at the Washington State University Archives.

Subject

Off-reservation boarding schools
Native American Studies
Chemawa Indian School

Place

Forest Grove, Oregon

Identifier

PUApic_008610.jpg

Rights

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Source

Forest Grove Indian School Collection, Pacific University Archives

Type

Still Image

Other Media

[Back:] Site where Chemawa School began, Feb. 25, 1880 at Forest Grove, Oregon. 90-202 (Chalcraft collection). Edwin L. Chalcraft, second from right; Alice P. Chalcraft, his daughter, seated in front with white hat.