The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Description
Black and white photograph of a group of two indigenous boys and two indigenous girls in western clothing learning to produce dairy products at St. Alberts Industrial School. None of them look very happy.
Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Description
Black and white photograph of a football team of young indigenous men and their non-indigenous coaches. Subtitled "High River Industrial School Football Team: Champions of the Association Football Tournament, Calgary, May 24, 1898.
Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Description
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.
File contains 2 negatives featuring a man and two children in traditional dress, presumably from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan or area, taken on January 29, 1966.
Photograph of child with buildings in background taken at Lake Harbour, N.W.T. [NU], currently known as Kimmirut, NU. Title on file: Eskimo Child with Sled.
File contains four negatives from a visit by a Santa Claus from the Kinsmen Service Club to the residential school in Prince Albert (likely All Saints). Scanned image shows said Santa Claus giving a present to a child.