Shoemaking class at work in the Indian Training School
Title
Shoemaking class at work in the Indian Training School
Description
A posed photograph of Native American boys in the Forest Grove Indian Training School performing shoemaking skills. The names of the children are not identified. The white man is their instructor, Samuel A. T. Walker, who noted the occasion in his diary on June 6, 1881: 'I went out to the Indian School to work before noon and had my picture taken in front of the shop with my shoe maker boys.' The caption notes that this was number 41 in a series of photographs by I.G. Davidson, a photography studio based in Portland. The series shows how the school taught the children to behave according to the norms of white society, including the teaching of vocational skills such as this one. This photograph was reproduced alongside several other images of the school as an etching in a popular magazine, Harper's Weekly, in 1882.
Creator
I. G. Davidson, photographer
Subject
Off-reservation boarding schools
Native American Studies
Chemawa Indian School
Place
Forest Grove, Oregon
Identifier
PUApic_008614.jpg
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Source
Forest Grove Indian School Collection, Pacific University Archives
Type
Still Image
Other Media
[front] No. 41. Davidson, Photo. Shoemaking. Portland, Oregon. [back] Indian Training School, Forest Grove, Oregon. Capt. M. C. Wilkinson ,U.S.A., in charge. Davidson, photo. Shoemaking. Portland, Oregon.