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100 Yards in Nothing Flat 4-H Girls Having Fun at a Picnic, 1936

Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s

Description:

"100 Yards in Nothing Flat 4-H Girls Having Fun at a Picnic": Three girls from the 4-H club race to finish a 100-yard run at a picnic as onlookers are left in the distance. Two of the girls are wearing cotton print dresses while one of the girls wears a cotton shirt and pants. A house is seen along the fence line in the background near the onlookers.

Culture or Community:

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Other Forms:

Originals: b&w glossy photograph

Date of Creation:

1936

Physical Details:

One of two black and white glossy photographs placed in brackets, attached to a page in report.

Catalog Number:

CIVAM-NARA #9009.1

External Links:

Provenance:

The photographs in this collection were published in the annual reports of the extension agent for the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry at the Crow Reservation. (The text of the reports has not yet been added to the CIVAM collection.) The report photographs were copied by Cindy Ott at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. in March 2015. Cindy Ott organized three exhibitions of a dozen of the photographs at senior centers in the towns of Crow Agency, Lodge Grass, and Pryor on the Crow reservation in summer 2017. (Catalog records of individual photographs document which ones were exhibited.)

Citation:

Charles S. Runyan, Agricultural Agent, U.S. Dept of Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Field Service, “Annual Report of Division of Extension and Industry: Crow Reservation; To Director of Extension and Industry; From January 1, 1936 to December 31, 1936.” Records of Bureau of Indian Affairs (RG 75), Central Classified Files, 1907-39; Crow; 40761-1912-.023.1 To 130-1936-031; Box 2: PI-163 E-121 HM 2001. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. CIVAM-NARA #9009.1

Creators:

U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry, Charles S. Runyan

Keywords:

1930's

Big Horn County

Clothing

cotton

Girls

Photograph

image

1930s

Montana

Crow Indian Reservation

cotton print

Group photograph

Picnic

4-H

Black & white image

Crow Indians

Fences

House

United States--Great Plains

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Children

Dress

Games

Indians of North America

Image

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