[South Dakota]

[Four Photographs of South Dakota Taken At or Near the Rosebud Agency Boarding School]

[N.p., perhaps South Dakota: early-20th century]. Four silver gelatin photographs, each 3.25 x 5.5 inches. Light wear, minor silvering. Very good. Item #4517

A small collection of four photographs taken in and around the Rosebud Boarding School in the early-20th century. Three of the photographs are captioned in ink on the verso. The first image is a clear shot of the buildings of the school, and is captioned "Rosebud Boarding School." The same caption is written on teh verso of a photograph of a group of white men and women standing at the gate to the school, with part of one building visible in the background. The third image is captioned "Camp at Colombes" and features a group of men and women posed around a tent on the open plains. The fourth, showing a team of agricultural workers harvesting crops, is uncaptioned. The first two images stand as important snapshots of the Rosebud Boarding School, which opened in 1898 to assimilate local Sioux children in the Dakotas, as part of a larger effort by the U.S. government to assimilate Native American children into mainstream American culture by removing them from their families and communities.

Price: $550.00