Dakota children arriving at Lower Cut Meat School, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota

OPPS NEG.53376 A

In 1968, the Crane Collection was given to the Denver Museum of Natural History.

Original Number 134.

School house and teachers quarters on right. Stable, Blacksmith's lean-to, and carpenter shop on left, built by Bratley and schoolboys in 1895. Dakota 'Bad Lands' come within 25 ft. of carpenter's shop to the north.

"Looking toward the west side of Lower Cut Meat Creek Camp Day School. Part of the roof of the carpenter shop shows over our [Bratley's] house and cowshed. The Blacksmith shop, the boys and I [Bratley] built in 1895. 15 cords of oak firewood shows in front of and beyond the carpenter shop. The 'Badlands' come within 25 feet of the shop on the north. Notice the gate to the right of the house that leads to the dam and the irrigated garden, all of which the boys and I made." (cf. Negative Number 53374 for photograph of dam, and Negative Number 53377 for irrigated garden).- Information [by Bratley] with copy negative from BIA (BAE Catalog Number 4368).

Black and white copy negative