Cabinet card photograph
Height 4.5 in / 11.4 cm
Width 6.5 in / 16.5 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Prescott, AZ
This 1896 cabinet card photograph by Clara Ensminger of Toledo, Ohio, depicts a group of Native American boarding school students. The image relates to the federal boarding school system, which removed or pressured Native children into institutional education programs designed to separate them from family, language, and tribal life. The specific tribal affiliations of the students are not identified in the available information, so the listing should remain general.
The students are shown in formal studio dress, arranged in a seated and standing group portrait. The photograph has strong documentary value because it records Native children within the visual culture of late nineteenth-century boarding school photography. Because the Toledo school included Meskwaki children as well as children brought from other Native communities, the description should avoid assigning the group to one tribe unless further documentation confirms it.
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Cabinet card photograph
Height 4.5 in / 11.4 cm
Width 6.5 in / 16.5 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Prescott, AZ
This 1896 cabinet card photograph by Clara Ensminger of Toledo, Ohio, depicts a group of Native American boarding school students. The image relates to the federal boarding school system, which removed or pressured Native children into institutional education programs designed to separate them from family, language, and tribal life. The specific tribal affiliations of the students are not identified in the available information, so the listing should remain general.
The students are shown in formal studio dress, arranged in a seated and standing group portrait. The photograph has strong documentary value because it records Native children within the visual culture of late nineteenth-century boarding school photography. Because the Toledo school included Meskwaki children as well as children brought from other Native communities, the description should avoid assigning the group to one tribe unless further documentation confirms it.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
