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A view of the Worcester Academy (a school for the education of children from the Cherokee Indian Nation), at Vinita, (Oklahoma)

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Date:

November 5, 1888

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R1433

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Art

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3003184

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Edward Francis Wilson fonds

A view of the Worcester Academy (a school for the education of children from the Cherokee Indian Nation), at Vinita, (Oklahoma)
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Date(s):

November 5, 1888

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

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1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil on heavy wove paper
Support 17.900 x 25.400 cm

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A view of the Worcester Academy (a school for the education of children from the Cherokee Indian Nation), at Vinita, (Oklahoma). Depicted is a roadway leading up to a three story, multi-windowed and multi-dormered building, situated in an open almost treeless expanse, and containing both a bell tower and roof porch (i.e. "Widow's Walk"). On either side of the main building are two other smaller buildings - the larger to the viewer's left, a much smaller one (a covered well?) behind and to the right. In front, close to the right edge of the composition, is an open-sided animal shelter, with a straw roof, containing a horse., In the centre right foreground is the figure of a man holding a fence post and facing the viewer. He stands in front of a wagon load of fence posts drawn by two horses. -/- Vinita was the principal commercial town, for the Cherokee Nation, in the former Indian Territory comprising the northeastern part of the present State of Oklahoma. (See: PP's 73-74 of the periodical cited below, as well as: "A Victorian Missionary And Canadian Indian Policy - Cultural Synthesis Vs Cultural Replacement" - By David A. Nock [Professor of Sociology at Lakehead University] - Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 1988.), (Note: This drawing was reproduced on Pg. 74 of the October 1889 issue of "Our Forest Children - And What We Want To Do Them" - Edited by Rev. E.F. Wilson [See: Vol.III, No. 7. - Jno. Rutherford, Printer And Publisher, / Owen Sound, Ont.])

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Artist: Wilson, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1844-1915

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Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in brush, with grey brown or drab watercolour, recto, b.c. to b.r.: "Worcester Academy Ind Terr, Novr 5 \ 88,"; (contemporary inscription) in blue ball point pen, on the verso of the former mount (i.e. secondary support, since removed), "painted Nov.5 1888 - / by Reverend Edward Francis Wilson / believed to be Vinita Oklahoma"
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Indian

Oklahoma

Architecture
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Private

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00006
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Item no. assigned by LAC [R1433] 6

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R1433-6
Copyright: Expired

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