Cherokee Boarding School cottage

Description

This undated photograph shows the Home Economics cottage on the campus of the Cherokee Boarding School. A school for the Eastern Band was instituted as a boarding and day school in 1884 and was operated for its first twelve years by the Society of Friends (Quakers). The school provided academic classes, like English and arithmetic, in the morning. The arts, crafts, and vocational training were taught in the afternoons. Domestic skills such as cooking, baking, sewing, and needlework were taught to girls; boys received training in agriculture, livestock management, industrial arts, smithing, and carpentry. In 1896, the school came under the direct supervision of the federal government. By the time this photograph was taken, the school had come to teach more academic classes and, in 1954, the school was changed from a boarding school to a day school. The name of the photographer who captured this shot is unknown.
Details
- Creator
  - Unknown
- Format
  - Photographs
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date digitized: 2009-02-10
- Extent
  - Dimension: 4.25" x 5.25"
- Subject - Topic
  - Communities
  - Schools -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation
- Location
  - Qualla Boundary
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Photograph Collection
- Identifier
  - MCI_CH_726_A
- Repository
  - Museum of the Cherokee People

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