Detail View: Image Archives: Coming to School

File Name: 
br61-288.jpg
catalog number: 
br61-288
collection: 
Jesse Hastings Bratley
title: 
Coming to School
creator: 
Jesse H. Bratley
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Clifford "Max" Miller
creator type: 
scanning technician and creator of digital collection
description: 
Looking toward the west side of Lower Cut Meat Creek Camp Day School Part of the roof of the carpenter shop shows over the horses and cow shed. The blacksmith shop (lean to at the left) were built in 1895. 15 cords of oak fire wood shows in front of and beyond the carpenter shop. The wood was provided by the government each year to cook and heat the buildings. Behind the group of children to the southeast is Congee (Crow) log house.The 'Bad Lands' come within 25 ft. of the shop on the north. Notice the gate to right of the house which leads to the dam and irrigated garden built by Bratley and male students.
date: 
1895
date type: 
date of photograph
location: 
USA, South Dakota, Rosebud Reservation
modified: 
Yes, 180 horizontal flip, shadows, brightness/contrast enhanced using Photoshop CS4.
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
3.9MB
source: 
5 x 7 glass negative, scanned with Epson Expression 10000XL
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature and Science