Object Details
Names
Loughridge, Rev
Moore, Miss ?
Whitehead, J.P.
Whitehead, Mrs.
Scope and Contents
In front row, J.P. Whitehead, his wife and baby. Whitehead married one of the teachers, name possibly Moore. -- Information from letter of Fannie B. Misch, July 30, 1961. Behind Whitehead is Reverend Loughridge (with whiskers).. -- Misch letter.
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Local Numbers
OPPS NEG.996 C 17
Local Note
Black and white copy negative
Place
Oklahoma
Topic
Language and languages -- Documentation
Creek (Muskogee)
Indians of North America -- Southern states
Culture
Cherokee
Muscogee (Creek)
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Biographical / Historical
According to letter of October 8, 1960 from Fannie B. Misch, 546 North Santa Fe, Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is writing a history of the Wealaka Mission School, this building burned in 1889. It was 3 stories high and 140 feet long, and housed 100-120 scholars -- the largest manual labor boarding school in the Creek Nation.
Extent
1 Photograph (5x5 in)
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
Genre/Form
Photographs
NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref6934
Large EAD
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NAA.PhotoLot.176
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1628267668517-1628267670587-1