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Title Female students posed outside, Sac and Fox Indian Schools, Oklahoma, circa 1910s

Date Created circa 1910s

Place Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma

Subjects Indian school children, Indians of North America, Off-reservation boarding schools, Schools, Students

Description "Miss Aurelia Moran, Lela Bigwalker, Evelyn Twoguns, Dottie Springstead, Lucy Blund, Myrtle Jacobs"--back of postcard.

Summary From a collection of photographic postcards, photographs, and 1 letter collected by Clara Falls, who attended the Sac and Fox Indian School near Stroud, Oklahoma. Many images depict members of the Sac and Fox Nation. Items have been grouped in general categories including images related to the Sac and Fox Indian School, snapshots of groups and individuals, studio photographs and postcards, and buildings and views. Items include a view of the Pawnee Indian Agency, a portrait of "Hiskocot, Sauk Indian" [or Niskocot] of Stroud in traditional dress, a group of students in traditional dress holding a modern “Sac and Fox” pennant, and a uniformed American Indian baseball team. Several items show groups of students at the Sac and Fox Indian School, and many identify Clara Falls along with dozens of friends and family members. Two postcards apparently date from World War One: a pair of named uniformed soldiers in Ellenz, Germany; and an unnamed American Indian soldier in uniform "taken at Hempstead, L.I."

Biographical/Historical Note Clara Falls was born in Avery, Oklahoma on Jun. 24, 1898 to Samuel and Edney Falls. Also referred to as “Caddo,” Clara attended the Sac and Fox Indian School near Stroud, Oklahoma. Falls married Grover Kenneth Morris (ca. 1888-1936) in 1916. She died in Wanette, Oklahoma on Jan. 15, 1975.

Format Photographic postcards, Photographs, Postcards

Archival Collection Title Clara Falls postcard collection, Edward E. Ayer Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

Link to Catalog View record

Call Number Ayer Modern MS PC Falls

BibID 9911649833605867

IIIF Resource Type Manifest

IIIF Resource ID https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSA4X3EK

Original File Name 9911649833605867_ayer_modern_ms_pc_falls_box_00001_fl_00001_000009

Unique identifier NL11KRM5

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