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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 00041
Title: Portion of Catholic Cemetery, Standing Rock Agency, Fort Yates (N.D.)
Date: 1900
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [in red gouache on negative emulsion] Portion of Catholic Cemetery, Standing Rock Agency, Fort Yates, N. Dak. [back of print] Fort Yates Catholic cemetery. Galpin lot, 1st lot enclosed with iron fence.[Negative envelope] Fort Yates Catholic Cemetery First Lot Enclosed with Iron Fence is Galpin Lot [Bismarck Tribune Friday, 12-14-1900 p01] At Fort Yates -DEATH OF THE CHIEF CLERK AT THE AGENCY. Fort Yates, N. D., Dec. 6.—William Dobson, chief clerk at this agency, died of cirrhosis of the liver. He had been in the government service for 40 years. He was quartermaster clerk at Fort Snelling in the early sixties, subsequently being transferred to Fort Totten, N.D. For the past twelve years he had been chief clerk at this agency. He was considered at Wash¬ington the most efficient clerk in the service. Issue Clerk Ziebach will probably be promoted to chief clerk. The position pays $1200 a year.
Summary: Overview looking downhill of part of the Catholic Cemetery on Standing Rock Indian Reservation in Fort Yates (N.D.). The first enclosed area with iron fence is the Galpin lot, the second iron enclosed area has a stone inscribed to J.G.E. McLaughlin, Died Jan. 21, 1906. Age 33 years, the second stone is unreadable. Closer to the camera is a stone inscribed to “Wiliam Toym Dobson, born in Worferd, England Feb. 21, 1838, died Nov. 28, 1900. Beloved by all and not forgotten.” He was the chief clerk at the Standing Rock Agency office who died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1900. The rest of the stones are unreadable. Beyond the fence are some houses of Fort Yates and horses grazing the fields. Large and small American flags decorate graves.
Red ID: PH_I_15448 Image ID: 145830 Image Notes: 1952-00041

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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