Family Portraits: Virginia Indians at the Turn of the 20th Century

Exhibition of Photographs presented by Sweet Briar College

August 23, 2007 through January 13, 2008

Monacan Grandmother

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Old woman in door of log cabin. Indian Settlement. Grandmother of 48 (43?) children most of whom have but recently enjoyed school facilities. This picture used on Illiteracy Bulletin 1914. (Copy negative made).
Amherst County, Virginia
Monacan Tribe
Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Virginia, Negative Number: 0032