Details

Collection Summary
Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 01362
Title: Francine Fiske
Date: 1942
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Summary: Profile, half-length seated studio portrait of Francine Fiske. She is looking towards photo right, wearing a dark coloured sweater dress with collar and bell shaped buttons.
Red ID: PH_I_14708 Image ID: 136235 Image Notes: 1952-01362

Collection: 1952 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank Bennett Fiske
Date: 1880-1952

Summary: Includes prints and negatives of portraits, agriculture, education, wildlife, hunting, Frank Fiske studio portraits, and some views of South Dakota. Fiske’s Native American photographs include portraits, Indian gatherings and ceremonies, boarding schools, Indian houses and dwellings, and Native American agriculture. Fiske’s documentation of daily life on the reservation includes such shots as Sioux customers waiting for a Fort Yates trading store to open; a Sioux dance in the streets of Fort Yates; a plow issue before the agency boarding school; an encampment of tipis, including those traditionally painted; and three Indian men being taxied off the reservation to join the army in WWI.

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