Hoyt, Esther, -1942

Esther Hoyt Cabinet Cards, approximately 1885-1900

Collection

Identifier: 2016-007

Content Description

A collection of 24 photographs collected by Esther Hoyt, a teacher at several Indian schools in the late 19th & early 20th century.

Dates: approximately 1885-1900

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Non Reservation School, Tomah, Wisconsin, 1895

Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 000023279575], item: 24

Identifier: 2016-007-24

Scope and Contents A cabinet card depicting a classroom in the Tomah Indian Industrial School. Forty-nine students. Miss Hoyt stands in the back.Written on the back: "Non Reservation school. Tomah, Wisconsin. Chippewa and Winnebagos. Esther Hoyt – Teacher (1895) After she left Tomah she refused to teach in teach in any of the large Indian institutional schools. She was nine years at the San Ildefonso day school in New Mexico. She started the art program for students. This blossomed into a...

Dates: Other: 1895

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Esther Hoyt Cabinet Cards, approximately 1885-1900