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Edwin L Chalcraft
Chalcraft-Pickering Photographs, 1862-1941

Chemawa Classroom

The Chalcraft-Pickering Photograph Collection was separated from the Edwin L. Chalcraft papers (Cage 560), which were processed in 1988. Biographical information about Edwin L. Chalcraft and William Pickering, Governor of Washington Territory from 1862-1866, can be found in the finding aid to those papers. Briefly, Edwin L. Chalcraft superintended the Indian Training School at Chemawa, near Salem, Oregon, in 1894-95, and again from 1904-1911. It was during this time that the lantern slides were made.

The photo collection was processed by Carol Lichtenberg in September, 1990.

ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION

The collection consists of 105 family portraits of various sizes, depicting Edwin L. Chalcraft, his wife, Alice Fawcett (Pickering) Chalcraft, their children, Edwin Pickering Chalcraft and Alice Pickering Chalcraft, as well as sundry relatives. There is also a portrait of William Pickering, Governor of Washington Territory from 1862-1866. He was the grandfather of Alice Fawcett Chalcraft. These portraits are contained in one box of twenty folders, in a rough chronological sequence of familial groupings.

The more substantial and historically significant part of the collection consists of three boxes of glass lantern slides, assumed to be the work of Edwin L. Chalcraft, and bearing his descriptive notes along the bindings and students at Chemawa, the Indian Training School near Salem, Oregon. Included are classroom scenes, sports, music, and work activities of the students, and scenes from a Chatauqua held at Oregon City, Oregon.

CONTAINER LIST

Chalcraft-Pickering family portraits

BOX	FOLDER	DESCRIPTION	ITEMS
1	1	Gov. William Pickering of Washington Territory	2
	2	Richard & Emily Pickering; Pickering coat of arms	5
	3	Richard & Lucy Chalcraft	3
	4	Family homes & town views, Albion, Ill.	4
	5	Edwin L. & Alice F. Chalcraft & children Alice P. & Edwin P.	5
	6	Alice Fawcett Chalcraft	4
	7	Edwin L. & Alice F. Chalcraft	3
	8	Alice Pickering Chalcraft	10
	9	Unidentified portraits, probably Alice P. Chalcraft	6
	10	Edwin Pickering Chalcraft	7
	11	Edwin P. Chalcraft, wife Alma Ross & son Walter	12
	12	Maurice & Mabel Chalcraft & family	2
	13	Rosa C. Gooch & son John	3
	14	Flower family	4
	15	Henry J. Phillips & wife Mary Pickering & family	4
	16	Family & friends	11
	17	Alma Ross’ school; Ross & Edge family portraits	6
	18	Mr. John F. Kennedy & Mrs. J. F. Ross Kennedy	2
	19	Unidentified portraits	4
	20	Negatives (7), and one identification folder	8

Lantern slides

BOX

FOLDER

DESCRIPTION

ITEMS

2	1	Site where Chemawa school began (Feb. 25, 1880), Forest Grove, Oregon.
	2	Entrance to grounds at Chemawa
	3	Grounds and bandstand at Chemawa
	4	School grounds at Chemawa (tinted)
	5	Part of Chemawa school grounds
	6	Part of campus at Chemawa
	7	Rose Avenue at Chemawa, snow of grounds
	8	Rose Ave. looking north from the superintendent's home
	9	Rose Ave., superintendent’s house at right
	10	Rose Ave. at Chemawa
	11	Unidentified slide (grove of trees)
	12	Edwin L. Chalcraft taking photo of rose bush
	13	Rosebush growing…building at Chemawa
	14	An inspecting officer visiting Chemawa
	15	A visiting superintendent at Chemawa
	16	Miss Jennie Bowman
	17	Mr. Cooper and blooming sweetpeas
	18	Academic Building
	19	Employees cottage
	20	Dormitory for medium size boys
	21	Mitchell Hall, large boys home
	22	Commissary
	23	Domestic Science Building
	24	Habitat Building
	25	Mechanics Building
	26	Steam engineering, heating and electrical plant
	27	Unidentified building
	28	Bakery
	29	Interior of Bakery
	30	Wagon made in shop
	31	Blacksmith shop
	32	Chemawa graduate in his own Blacksmith shop at Bellingham, WA
	33	Harness shop
	34	Storage room for harness
	35	Carpenter shop
	36	Wagon wood work shop
	37	Part of canned fruit room
	38	Vegetable storage building
	39	Laundry
	40	Wash room in laundry
	41	Ironing and drying room in laundry
	42	Engine room in steam plant
	43	Boiler room in steam plant
	44	Filling a silo at dairy barn
	45	Taking up garbage
	46	Gathering Chemawa strawberries
	47	Chemawa boys at work
	48	Clearing land at Chemawa
	49	Part of Chemawa farm
	50	View of Chemawa farm (man plowing)
	51	Part of Chemawa farm (cutting grain or hay with horses)
	52	Part of Chemawa farm (cornfield)
	53	Part of school farm
	54	View of part of Chemawa farm
	55	Mealtime in Chemawa stock yard
	56	Bear pit at Chemawa
	57	Female deer at Chemawa (a Chemawa pet)
	58	A couple of fawns
	59	Three "Deers" at Chemawa
3	60	Chemawa boys starting out to pick hops
	61	Chemawa students picking hops in Charles MacNary hop yard
	62	Chemawa boys hauling hops to dryer
	63	Chemawa girls going out to pick hops
	64	Sorting prunes for drying
	65	Gathering prunes at Chemawa
	66	Chemawa prune orchard
	67	Chemawa prune orchard
	68	Chemawa prunes
	69	Chemawa prune orchard in bloom
	70	Chemawa prune orchard in bloom
	71	Thanksgiving display at Chemawa (potato)
	72	Thanksgiving display at Chemawa (apples)
	73	Thanksgiving display (potatoes)
	74	Thanksgiving display (potatoes, cabbage, squash)
	75	Thanksgiving display
	76	Floral display
	77	Pupils room at Chemawa
	78	Pupils room at Chemawa
	79	Interior of pupils room
	80	Interior of pupils room
	81	Interior of pupils room
	82	Classroom at Chemawa
	83	Classroom at Chemawa (sewing, tailoring)
	84	Classroom at Chemawa
	85	Classroom at Chemawa
	86	Classroom at Chemawa
	87	Classroom at Chemawa
	88	Joe Purns (with tuba) at rest
	89	Bandstand at Chemawa (gazebo)
	90	Schoolband at Chemawa
	91	Chemawa band on parade grounds
	92	Special band at Chemawa
	93	Special band at Chemawa
	94	Musical trio (violinist, cellist, pianist)
	95	Y.M.C.A. group at Chemawa
	96	Y.M.C.A. girls at Chemawa
	97	A literary society group (girls)
	98	Mrs. Smith and her literary society boys at Chemawa
	99	Nesika Club at Chemawa
	100	Dona May? Smith (baby sitting in tuba)
	101	Edwin Smith and daughter Dona May
	102	Edwin Smith and daughter Dona May
	103	Visiting football team at Chemawa
	104	Football team; Edwin Smith, coach
	105	Football sic. team at Chemawa School, i.e. Baseball
	106	Football team at Chemawa
	107	Chemawa football team
	108	Joe Diestrom, Chemawa student
	109	Joe Yebo, football coach and player at Chemawa (in baseball uniform)
	110	Chemawa girls basketball team
	111	Baseball game at Chemawa
	112	Athletic sports at Chemawa
	113	Relay race (Salem to Portland)
	114	Salem-Portland relay race
	115	Relay race, YMCA
	116	Relay race, Chemawa member
4	117	Student parade on athletic grounds at Chemawa
	118	Group of Alaskan boys & girls at Chemawa
	119	An Alaskan pupil at Chemawa
	120	Two Chemawa students
	121	A group of girls at Chemawa School
	122	A new group entering school at Chemawa
	123	Nora & Rena Mann, Chemawa students
	124	Fourtunato Jayme, a Philipino student at Chemawa
	125	Chemawa student officer at Oregon City Chatauqua
	126	Chemawa students camp at Oregon City Chatauqua
	127	Chemawa students "Dining Hall" at Oregon City Chatauqua
	128	Chemawa students camping at Oregon City Chatauqua
	129	Attending Chatauqua session at Oregon City (1 to r, Edwin Pickering Chalcraft, Mrs. Alice F. Chalcraft, Alice Pickering Chalcraft)
	130	Chemawa students "cook," Tent at Oregon City Chatauqua
	131	Charlie Larsen at Oregon City Chatauqua
	132	David Brewer, a most worthy man
	133	David Brewer, a most worthy man
	134	Indian family, unidentified
	135	Unidentified Indian woman, child & white girl
	136	Unidentified Indian woman
	137	Two unidentified Indian man
	138	Unidentified Indian family
	139	Unidentified Indian man
	140	Unidentified Indian man
	141	Unidentified Indian man
	142	Unidentified Indian man
	143	Two unidentified Indian man
	144	Unidentified little girl
	145	Mrs. Woods & daughter Evaline at Chemawa
	146	Alice Pickering Chalcraft, "Hallie"
	147	Hallie (Alice Pickering Chalcraft) at Chemawa, Oregon
	148	Alice Pickering Chalcraft, "Hallie" (tinted)
	149	Alice Pickering Chalcraft, "Hallie"
	150	Edwin L. Chalcraft at Silver Creek Falls camp, Oregon
	151	Family group (Chalcrafts and Pickerings)
	152	Grandpa Pickering, Hallie & Marie
	153	Cemetery at Wanborough, Illinois
	154	Old mud house at Wanborough, Ill.
	155	Old mud house at Wanborough, Ill.
	156	Old mud house at Wanborough, Ill.
	157	Albion, Illinois, from Richard Chalcraft farm
	158	Bridge over "Deep Cut," Albion, Ill.
	159	Block house at Grand Ronde, built by General Sheridan
	160	Horace Craigs house, Canyon City, Colorado
	161	Where [we?] lived in Canyon City, Colo.
	162	Unidentified house
	163	Unidentified houses
	164	Two unidentified houses