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Indian industrial school, Carlisle, Pa (1895)
Author: United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Subject: United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Publisher: [Philadelphia?]
Year: 1895
Language: English
Call number: 31735037840117
Digitizing sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Book contributor: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Collection: university_pittsburgh; americana
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Reviewer: Graham W - - April 8, 2010
Subject: A fascinating cultural and historical time capsule from the late 19th Century.
This 'coffee-table' book is a fascinating cultural and historical time capsule from the late 19th Century (1895). It pictorially depicts many aspects of daily life of students, teachers and workers in and around a purpose-built industrial school* for Native Americans in Carlisle, Pa.
It is packed full with detailed full-page photographs that enable the 21st C. reader to drop into the lives of a long-forgotten world of 115 years ago. The photographs show the school, its students, classrooms, industrial classrooms and trades workshops such as carpenters' shop etc. For example, there are some excellent depictions of students working in the school's printing and typesetting workshops. The reader can even view kitchens, living quarters, building fittings (including the boiler room) in considerable detail.
Whether intentional or not, this book is a proud historical record from that time: of how American can-do felt capable and assured of integrating the Indian into the American way of life. It overflows with well meaning sentiment and late-19 C. Victorian paternalism. Nevertheless, in this regard the book should not be singled out as being exceptional or paternalistic as it was not so back then. As well as being an important historical document, it must be read within the context of that time.
What is patently obvious from our modern perspective is that no attempt has been made to portray past or the then present Indian cultural heritage or whether Indians were happy at being integrated into a Western industrial society in such a prescriptive manner.
So infused within the culture of the late Victorian period were notions of Western industrial society being the pinnacle of human endeavor that any serious consideration of Indian cultures as being worthy or equal would have been a non sequitur. Therefore, to fully appreciate this wonderful little book, modern readers must have some awareness and cognizance of the 1890s zeitgeist.
This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers from historians and sociologists through to photographers and industrial archaeologists.
A gem of historical significance, I highly recommend it.
* The school is more the size of a small university campus.
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Author: United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Subject: United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Publisher: [Philadelphia?]
Year: 1895
Language: English
Call number: 31735037840117
Digitizing sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Book contributor: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Collection: university_pittsburgh; americana
This book has an editable web page on Open Library.
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Reviewer: Graham W - - April 8, 2010
Subject: A fascinating cultural and historical time capsule from the late 19th Century.
This 'coffee-table' book is a fascinating cultural and historical time capsule from the late 19th Century (1895). It pictorially depicts many aspects of daily life of students, teachers and workers in and around a purpose-built industrial school* for Native Americans in Carlisle, Pa.
It is packed full with detailed full-page photographs that enable the 21st C. reader to drop into the lives of a long-forgotten world of 115 years ago. The photographs show the school, its students, classrooms, industrial classrooms and trades workshops such as carpenters' shop etc. For example, there are some excellent depictions of students working in the school's printing and typesetting workshops. The reader can even view kitchens, living quarters, building fittings (including the boiler room) in considerable detail.
Whether intentional or not, this book is a proud historical record from that time: of how American can-do felt capable and assured of integrating the Indian into the American way of life. It overflows with well meaning sentiment and late-19 C. Victorian paternalism. Nevertheless, in this regard the book should not be singled out as being exceptional or paternalistic as it was not so back then. As well as being an important historical document, it must be read within the context of that time.
What is patently obvious from our modern perspective is that no attempt has been made to portray past or the then present Indian cultural heritage or whether Indians were happy at being integrated into a Western industrial society in such a prescriptive manner.
So infused within the culture of the late Victorian period were notions of Western industrial society being the pinnacle of human endeavor that any serious consideration of Indian cultures as being worthy or equal would have been a non sequitur. Therefore, to fully appreciate this wonderful little book, modern readers must have some awareness and cognizance of the 1890s zeitgeist.
This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers from historians and sociologists through to photographers and industrial archaeologists.
A gem of historical significance, I highly recommend it.
* The school is more the size of a small university campus.
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Camera: Canon 5D
Operator: scanner-doug-nolt@...
Scanner: scribe3.indiana.archive.org
Scandate: 20100216141840
Imagecount: 72
Identifier-access: www.archive.org/details/indianindustrial00unit
Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t3st87741
Bookplateleaf: 0004
Ocr: ABBYY FineReader 8.0
Sponsordate: 20100228
www.archive.org/details/indianindustrial00unit
