Description
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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Copyright Expired
Image Credit
Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R1433-6
Location
West Canadian Avenue, Vinita, Oklahoma, USA
Country
USA
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Buildings & Architecture
