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Identifier
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PUApic_008607_b
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Title
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Superintendent Wilkinson standing in front of boys from the Forest Grove Indian School
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Description
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A detail from a larger image of the Forest Grove Indian Training School Campus, focusing on the school's first superintendent, Melville C. Wilkinson. At the time this photograph was taken, Wilkinson was an officer in the United States Army who had been given a special assignment allowing him to serve as superintendent of this school. In this view, he is wearing his military uniform and is standing in front of boys from the Forest Grove Indian School. They are standing on the Forest Grove Indian School campus. It is from a photograph originally captioned, "Indian Training School, Forest Grove, Oregon." The original is numbered 36 in a series of photographs by I.G. Davidson, a photography studio based in Portland. The series shows how the school taught the children to behave according to the norms of white society, including learning trades and wearing Western clothing. It was probably taken in 1881 or 1882, based on other dated photographs within the series. See the original photograph, PUApic_008607, in the Forest Grove Indian Training School Collection, Pacific University Archives.
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Date: Year(s)
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1881/1882
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Is Part Of
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PUApic_008607
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Place
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Forest Grove, Oregon
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Source
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Forest Grove Indian School Collection, Pacific University Archives
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Copyright
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English
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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Type
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Still Image
PUApic_008607_b