Postcard
Indian School
| View across lawn toward the Indian School. Caption reads: "Indian School, Wis." |
| Image ID: | 38079 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1910 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Tomah |
| County: | Monroe |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Wisconsin place file, circa 1850s-circa 1950s |
| Genre: | Postcard |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PF Tomah.3 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5.5 x 3.5 inches |
| Opened in 1893, the Tomah Indian Industrial School was intended to teach Indian children how to shed their cultural background and to become more like white, middle-class Americans. Funded primarily by the federal government, Indian boarding schools were established throughout the United States in an attempt to acculturate Indians to "American" ways of thinking and living. The children's time was carefully monitored, with boys receiving instruction in agriculture or trade and girls in the domestic arts. |
| Trees |
| School buildings |
| Cities and towns |
| Off-reservation boarding schools |
| Outdoor photography |
| Yards |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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