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The Poultry Club From on The Lodge Grass Creek, 1936

Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s

Description:

"The Poultry Club From on The Lodge Grass Creek": A small group of boys and girls gather to the side of a house for a group photograph to commemorate their involvement in the Poultry Club of Lodge Grass Creek. They are all wearing cotton clothing, the girls wear cotton print dresses, while the boys wear cotton shirts and pan

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 #9007.1

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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 #9007.1

Creators:

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

Keywords:

1930's

Big Horn County, Montana

Clothing

Dress, cotton print

Indians of North America

Photograph

Image

1930s

Black & white image

Crow Indian Reservation

Girls

Lodge Grass Creek, Big Horn County, Montana

Poultry Club

American Indian/White relations

Boy

Crow Indians

Group photograph

Black Lodge District

United States--Great Plains

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Children

Dress, cotton

House

Meeting

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