St. Francis Mission photograph collection
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R74-10
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints and negatives made by Smithsonian Institution, 1973-1974.
name: label: Creator
content: Buechel, Eugene
label: Photographer
content: Gentle, Salvatore
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux

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place: label: Place
content: Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)
label: Place
content: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
topic: label: Topic
content: St. Francis Indian Mission (South Dakota)
creator: label: Creator
content: Buechel, Eugene
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Sioux
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: St. Francis Mission was a Jesuit mission established on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota in 1886. The central function of the mission was education, in the form of the St. Francis Mission school. Father Digmann, often referred to as the founder of St. Francis Mission, also established thirty-seven mission stations around the reservation. In 1972 the mission school was turned over to the tribe's community corporation, Sicangu Oyate Ho, Inc., which renamed it St. Francis Indian School.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3,800 Copy prints (circa, black and white)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1902-1905, 1920s-1940s, 1960s
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: These photographs were copied from the original negatives in the St. Francis Mission archives, 1973-1974.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R74-10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Copy negatives also available.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals now in Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries in Milwaukee, WI.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Copy photographs depicting buildings, farms, Dakota Indians, and mission school activities in and around the St. Francis Mission on the Rosebud Reservation. The majority of the photographs were made by Eugene Buechel, a Jesuit who served at St. Francis and Holy Rosary missions. The collection also includes some photographs by Fr. Salvatore Gentile of a Sun Dance on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs of St. Francis Mission may be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4574.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Marquette University's Raynor Memorial Libraries in Milwaukee, WI, holds the records of the St. Francis Mission.