N20172

Indoor portrait of the young women Maude Bender and Annie Telfsson, Chippewas from White Earth Reservation, attending school at Fort Totten. They wear dresses and blouses (school uniforms?) of dark cloth with multiple buttons, with embroidered (?) cuffs and collars. The woman on the left wears a ribboned(?) scarf and necklaces, the other a stick brooch. The wall behind is decorated with pictures in "aesthetic" frames, and a hand-painted plate with flowers.

PHYSICAL IMAGE LOCATION: Glass Plate Neg Box 47-2

ORIGINAL IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Girls (Maude Bender and Annie Telfsson). Chippewa from White Earth Reservation, attending school at Fort Totten. Devils Lake Reservation. North Dakota. Taken about 1893. Presented by John H. Waugh.

PHOTO REMARKS: Additional info from original glass plate neg sleeve.