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The Present Home of Herbert Old Bear after the Rehabilitation Fund, 1936

Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s

Description:

"The Present Home of Herbert Old Bear after the Rehabilitation Fund": This is the present home of Herbert Old Bear and his family. The Old Bear family, full of smiles, poses in front of their new home. The rehabilitation fund covered $350, leaving Old Bear only to pay $50 to purchase the new house. In today's money, $400, when accounting for inflation, equates to $7,746.62. To see where Herbert Old Bear and his family were living before visit "The home of Herbert Old Bear before the Rehabilitation Fund, 1936."

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 #9038.2

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 #9038.2

Creators:

Charles S. Runyan, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Keywords:

1930's

Crow Indian Reservation

Furnishings (home)

Ranch buildings

Runyan, Charles S.

1930s

Crow Indians

Group photograph

Ranchers

Image

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)

Division Extension & Industry

Herbert Old Bear

Ranches

image

Black & white image

Families

House repair loan

Rehabilitation Loan

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