Photographs Accompanying Reports to the Secretary of the Interior, 1887–1930
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The photographs were intended for publication in the annual reports made to the Secretary of the Interior by the governors of the territories, superintendents of parks, and heads of various institutions, offices, and bureaus. In this era, many of the District of Columbia's institutions, such as the Columbia School for the Deaf and Dumb (Galludet College) were under the supervision of the Patents and Miscellaneous Division of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior. Included in the series are construction work and completed buildings at government institutions in the District of columbia; landscapes at Sequoia, General Grant, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone National Parks; views of communities and agricultural scenes in Arizona, Oklahoma, and California; public buildings, schools and institutions, bridges, irrigation works, and other improvements in Arizona, Oklahoma, the Imperial Valley of California, and Honolulu; forestry and mining operations in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Tennessee; Native Americans and their handcrafts and education in Arizona and Oklahoma; mineral formations within Wind and Crystal Caves, South Dakota; rush scenes in Oklahoma; and, exhibits at the Milwaukee Public Museum, ca. 1930.
Photographs Accompanying Reports to the Secretary of the Interior, 1887–1930.
"Bankers' and Railroad Men's Party on Blue Grass Lawn at Calexico." The California Development Co. was in hopes that after this camp out the men would invest in Imperial Valley schemes, ca. 1904
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"Picking cherries on an Oklahoma Fruit Ranch." A baby in a stroller watches the busy family at work, ca. 1900. Copy of halftone
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Teacher and children in front of sod schoolhouse. Woods Co., Okla. Terr., ca. 1895
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"Looking For A Town Lot." Guthrie, Ind. Terr. [Oklahoma], ca. 1889
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"In Wind Cave, S.D. 350 feet below the surface at Odd Fellows' Hall." William Jennings Bryan and Governor Lee in center front of group. By W. R. Cross, ca. 1897
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"Gathering the Fruits of an Oklahoma Farm--Apples, Peaches, Plums, Pears, Grapes, and Melons." Children at their chores, ca. 1900
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"Territorial University at Norman." Oklahoma Terr., ca. 1897-98
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"Residence of G. L. Rule Feb. 18, 1898. Have lived here since Sept. 1893." Family stands in foreground; sod building and cabin in background, Arizona Territory
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"City of Imperial, from ice plant water tank, July 9, 1904." Panoramic view
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