Journal of the church clerk and photographs, 1907-1920.

Creator:

Bock, Harry V., 1865-1949
Brendel, Allwilda Belle Griffith
Dillon, Vince
Gillingham, David Gray Eagle
Pawnee Indian Baptist Church

Published/Created:

1911

Physical Description:

1 v. (45 p.) ; 28 x 40 cm.
20 photographic prints : b & w ; 9.5 x 17.0 cm. and smaller.
1 photographic print : b & w ; 8.3 x 13.8 cm.

Notes:

Manuscript inscription on the recto and verso of photographic prints.
Reverend Joseph Greenberry Brendel (1862-1926) founded the Pawnee Indian Baptist Church on September 20, 1908 and served as its minister until April 20, 1911, when Harry Bock (1865-1949) took charge of the church. Bock worked many years with western showman Gordon W. Lillie, also known as Pawnee Bill, until becoming a Baptist missionary.

Abstract:

Journal kept in a composition book by clerks of the Pawnee Indian Baptist Church, Pawnee, Oklahoma, and related photographs depicting Pawnee Indian members of the church and other Native Americans, 1907-1920.
Photographs in the collection consist primarily of images of members of the church. These images include a group portrait of the congregation at the church, and a group portrait of Maggie Knife Chief and family at the Pawnee Indian Agency School, 1911; group portraits of Pawnee Indians at a meeting of the Oklahoma Indian Baptist Association in Anadarko, Oklahoma, 1912; group portraits of Pawnee Indians at the railroad station at Darrow, Oklahoma, July 1914, with men identified in a portrait as White Horse, Robert Peters, Hole in the Ground, and Lester Pratt, and a receipt for two roundtrip tickets purchased on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad from Darrow to Pawnee; and images of a baptism of a man identified as the oldest Oto Indian, 1915.
Portraits of identified Pawnee Indians in the collection include David Gillingham and Hattie Smith Burns, identified as the wife of Benny Burns. Portraits related to Charles Knife Chief include images of him, his children, and of him with John Moses. A portrait of two Pawnee Indian women depicts Nettie Moses and Jenny Long Wolf, who attended the Chilocco Indian Boarding School in Chilocco, Oklahoma. An undated group portrait probably took place at a religious conference meeting and includes Harry Bock.

Topics:

Baptists--Missions--Oklahoma
Baptists--Oklahoma
Indians of North America--Oklahoma--Pictorial works
Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Indians of North America--Portraits
Missionaries--Oklahoma
Pawnee Indians--Pictorial works

Topics:

Anadarko (Okla.)--Pictorial works
Darrow (Okla.)--Pictorial works
Oklahoma--Pictorial works
Pawnee (Okla.)--Pictorial works

Topics:

Knife Chief, Charles
Knife Chief, Maggie

Caption:

Maggie Knife Chief and family with son-in-law
Mrs. Knife Chief and family, with son-in-law. at Pawnee Indian Agency School

Language:

English

Genre:

Group portraits
Photographic prints.--aat
photographs (AAT)

Format:

Image

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

WA MSS S-2546

Box:

Box 1

Folder:

Folder 3

Orbis Record:

7074749

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

Yale Collection of Western Americana

oid pointer:

1375780

Citation:

Pawnee Indian Baptist Church, Journal of the Church Clerk and Photographs. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Volume/Enumeration:

42

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

10001627

PID:

digcoll:3713167