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Collection Summary
Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 01935
Title: Agnes Georgina Fredette
Date: 1910
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [biography-Bismarck Tribune Monday 07-23-1917 p0001] Alexander Faribault, pioneer Indian trader of Standing Rock reservation . . . Died at his home. . . His only surviving relative is Agnes G. Fredette, a niece who has taught at the agency school here for 15 years. [biography-US Register of Civil Military and Naval Service 1895 p779] Superintendent of Schools [biography] Agnes Georgina Fredette born October 10, 1860 in Faribault, Rice County Minnesota to Joseph Cameron Fredette (1832i-1913) and Julia Antoinette Faribault (1841-1888). She was 1/4 Indian through her 19mother's tribe. She taught at the Indian Boarding School in Fort Yates, Standing Rock Indian Reserveration, eventually becoming the school superintendent. She died on April 24 1940 in Rochester, Olmstead County, Minnesota.
Summary: Three-quarter length seated studio portrait, she is seated in a wicker chair, with her head tilted back ant to the photo right. Her hair is pulled to the back of her head and secured with a dark bow. She is wearing a patterned dress with eyelet top and lace trimmed sleeves and waist. The square neck line is also edged in lace and she is wearing a necklace with a broach that has two inset gems or pearls. In the background is a handpainted backdrop with an outdoor scene of trees and land.
Red ID: PH_I_32181 Image ID: 136269 Image Notes: 1952-01935

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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