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The 4-H Garden Club at The Agency District, 1936

Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s

Description:

"The 4-H Garden Club at The Agency District": A large group of young girls and boys gather in front of arboreal scenery for a group photo of the 4-H Garden Club. The group poses in cotton shirts, cotton pants, and cotton print dresses at the Agency District.

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 #9007.2

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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 #9007.2

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

American Indian/White relations

Black & white image

Crow Indian Reservation

cotton print

Girls

Photograph

1930s

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Boy

Crow Indians

Garden Club

Group photograph

United States--Great Plains

4-H

Big Horn County

Children

Dress

Gardeners

Indians of North America

Whites

African Americans

Montana

Clothing

cotton

Gardens

Meeting

image

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