• Katharine Kilbourne photograph album of a Jicarilla boarding school in Dulce, New Mexico, 1931

Creator:

• Kilbourne, Katharine Skinner, 1872-1968

Date:

• 1931.

Extent:

• 1 v. ; 14 x 23 cm.

Subject:

• Simms family—Photographs
• Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation (Dulce, N.M.)—History—Photographs
• Boarding schools—New Mexico—Photographs
• Indian children—North America—Photographs
• New Mexico—Photographs

Abstract:

• Contains 49 gelatin silver print photographs (8 x 13.5 cm.), many captioned, of a Jicarilla boarding school and sanitarium near Dulce, New Mexico. 31 prints show Native American children of varying ages (including orphans receiving care), a hospital, a sanitarium, and a church; 10 photographs are of the Harper Simms family and others, including a print labeled Christmas 1931; 4 prints feature local Native Americans and dwellings; and 4 feature landscapes and scenes from the immediate reservation environs in Dulce, New Mexico. A typed information sheet lists many of the people pictured from the mission, as well as their roles in the orphanage, hospital, sanitarium, etc. A number of hand-written captions are illegible.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/4x51hj75p

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9945725283506421

Call number:

• C0938 no. 136q

Location:

• MSS C0938 no. 136q