Boarding Schools -- New Mexico -- History

Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of check ledgers from the tenure of Frederic Snyder as Superintendent of the United States Indian Industrial School at Santa Fe, 1914-1918. Included are nine hardbound check ledgers and corresponding canceled checks drawn on the First National Bank of Santa Fe, 1914-1918. The check ledgers detail the diverse expenditures relating to the operation of an Indian School at the time, and include: a wide range of provisions from a number of named grocers and other...

Scope and Content Santa Fe Indian School: The First 100 Years Project consists of 51 cassette tapes (on 51 CDs) comprising 31 oral history interviews, 27 transcripts, photocopies of photographs (the originals are held at SFIS), the exhibition catalog, One House, One Voice, One Heart: Native American Education at the Santa Fe Indian School, and assorted biographies, correspondence, and clippings. There are no cassettes for interview numbers 6,...

Content Description The collection includes photographs of boarding schools, people, and places taken during Margaret E. Laird's time as teacher at Indians Schools in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lawton, Oklahoma, and Rice Station, Arizona. Also included are images of people and school buildings in Santee, Nebraska and Fort Mojave, Arizona. C.C. Stotz, a photographer based in El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, created some of the images; the other photographers are not identified. The prints are gelatin silver prints and...