The Girls from the Sewing Club wearing their Handmade Clothing, 1936
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"The Girls from the Sewing Club wearing their Handmade Clothing": Six girls from the sewing club pose for a picture in their handmade dresses. They additionally made Scarfs, tea towels, pot holders, pillowcases, and hand towels, they also learned to different stitches like the Blanket stitch, the Outline stitch, the Lazy Daisy stitch, and the French Knots.
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 the report.
Catalog Number:
CIVAM-NARA #9003
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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 #9003
Creators:
Charles S. Runyan, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Keywords:
1930's
Cloth
Dress
Photograph
image
1930s
Clothing
Dress, cotton
Sewing
Apsáalooke
Crow Indian Reservation
Families
Stitched
Black & white image
Crow Indians
Group photograph
Image