Theresa Reed and Her Prize Pumpkin, 1935
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"Theresa Reed and Her Prize Pumpkin": Theresa Reed, a young woman in her Teens, stands before 2 large pumpkins that she entered in Crow Fair. She stands in a barnyard and a woman in a modern cotton dress stand in the barn door watching Reed.
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
Original: black and white glossy photograph
Date of Creation:
1935
Physical Details:
One of two black and white glossy photographs placed in brackets, attached to a page in report.
Catalog Number:
CIVAM-NARA #8752.1
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, 1935 to December 31, 1935.” 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 #8752.1
Creators:
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., Charles S. Runyan
Keywords:
1930's
Big Horn County, Montana
Crow Fair
Dress, cotton print
Pumpkins
image
1930s
Black & white image
Crow Indian Reservation
Gardeners
Reed, Theresa
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Children
Crow Indians
Girls
Women
Barnyard
Clothing
Division Extension & Industry
Photograph
Image