The Agency Sewing Club Looks as Though They Enjoyed Their Work, 1936
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"The Agency Sewing Club Looks as Though They Enjoyed Their Work": A large group of young girls and women gather for a group photo of the Agency Sewing Club in a fenced yard. All of the girls are wearing cotton print dresses and poses so that each member is visible for the photo.
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 #9009.2
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 #9009.2
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
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Braids
Crow Indians
Fences
Meeting
Women
1930s
Big Horn County
Children
Dress
Girls
Photograph
image
African Americans
Montana
Clothing
cotton
Group photograph
Sewing
American Indian/White relations
Black & white image
Crow Indian Reservation
cotton print
Indians of North America
United States--Great Plains