The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Sewing Department, Industrial School, St. Albert"

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Black and White photograph of a room of young Indigenous women in European clothes. Some are seated at sewing machines, and others sit on chairs sewing by hand. Two nuns oversee the activity in the background. Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Author/Creator
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Contributor/Editor
[Provincial Archives of Alberta, Brock Silversides]
Open Access
Yes
Primary Source
Yes
Publisher
[University of Saskatchewan Archives]
Publication Date
1898
Credit
University of Saskatchewan Archives, Brock Silversides fonds, 2.2-21A-p005 (Vol.7); records from Our Legacy site, http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy
Subjects
Society » Social Issues » Housing
History
Arts » Visual Arts » Photography » People
Education » Residential & Boarding Schools
Society » Children & Youth
Education » Assimilation
Society » Social Issues
Resources & References » Archival Material
Society » Cross-Cultural Relations » Racism & Discrimination
Location
Canada » Alberta » Edmonton
Resource Type
Images -- Photographs
Format
Image
Language
English
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