Details

Subject(s)

• Simms family—Photographs [Browse]
• Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation (Dulce, N.M.)—History—Photographs [Browse]
• Boarding schools—New Mexico—Photographs [Browse]
• Indian children—North America—Photographs [Browse]
• New Mexico—Photographs [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Photographs [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1931.

Summary note

Contains 49 gelatin silver print photographs (8 x 13.5 cm.), many captioned, of a Jicarilla boarding school and sanitarium near Dulce, New Mexico. 31 prints show Native American children of varying ages (including orphans receiving care), a hospital, a sanitarium, and a church; 10 photographs are of the Harper Simms family and others, including a print labeled Christmas 1931; 4 prints feature local Native Americans and dwellings; and 4 feature landscapes and scenes from the immediate reservation environs in Dulce, New Mexico. A typed information sheet lists many of the people pictured from the mission, as well as their roles in the orphanage, hospital, sanitarium, etc. A number of hand-written captions are illegible.

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