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James Carpenter Combating the Crickets by Spraying Poison, 1936

Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s

Description:

"James Carpenter Combating the Crickets by Spraying Poison": James Carpenter poses in the middle of his field as he sprays poison on the ground to exterminate the Morman Crickets that have ravaging the nearby fields. A young farmer walks behind him carrying items.

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 #9081.2

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 #9081.2

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

Beanies

Black & white image

Crickets (orthoptera)

Farms

Mormon Crickets

Runyan, Charles S.

1930s

newsboy

Boy

Crow Indian Reservation

Gardeners

Photograph

image

Alfalfa

Big Horn County

Carpenter

Crow Indians

Gardens

Poison

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Montana

James

Farming

Grasshoppers

Reservation hat

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