Photograph album relating to the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona. Included are views of both male and female students as they participate in several activities, among them a dress parade, a gardening project at the school, the girls' basketball practices, and military-type drills and in band uniforms with their instruments. Also included are views of the graduating classes of 1903 and 1904, as well as a photograph of the faculty
Description:
C. W. Goodman was superintendent of the Phoenix Indian School between 1902 and 1915. and Manuscript captions accompany most photographs.
Correspondence, loose manuscript and typescript pages, a scrapbook, and two photograph albums related to Samuel M. McCowan’s time as superintendent of the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona, and efforts creating the “Model Indian School” exhibit as part of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri, 1894-1904 and Circa 118 photographs in 2 photograph albums show students of the Phoenix Indian School. A scrapbook with photographs, press releases, and newspaper clippings related to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition documents McCowan’s exhibit and the work completed by students of the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma. Included is a draft of a speech by McCowan regarding Indigenous education, as well as “Asakeeta” and “A Tale of the Cataract” (essays likely relayed to McCowan by a Samuel Beecher).
Description:
Samuel M. McCowan (1863-1924) was superintendent of the Fort Mojave Industrial School from 1890 to 1896 and Phoenix Indian School from 1897 to 1902 (both in Arizona), as well as the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma after 1902. In 1904, McCowan was responsible for the “Model Indian School” exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona., Oklahoma., Arizona, Phoenix (Ariz.), and Saint Louis (Mo.)
Subject (Name):
McCowan, Samuel M., Chilocco Indian School., Phoenix Indian School, and Louisiana Purchase Exposition
