Female Students Having Breakfast Lesson in Cooking Class, 1901

Female students posed with white female teacher in cooking class with "Breakfast Lesson" written on the blackboard. 

In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston to document the school at Carlisle for an exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Johnston visited the school in the spring of that year and took at least one hundred photographs. Johnston donated her personal papers, including 103 prints of the photographs taken at Carlisle, to the Library of Congress.  

A copy of this print is available for download from the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/item/2004676524/.  

Time Period
Campus Spaces
Location
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection LC-USZ62-55456
Photographer
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Washington, DC