Old woman in door of log cabin. Indian Settlement. Grandmother of 48 (43?)
Dublin Core
Title
Old woman in door of log cabin. Indian Settlement. Grandmother of 48 (43?)
Subject
Virginia Indians, Monacan
Description
A child and an elderly woman, both Monacan Indians, pose in the door of a log cabin at the Monacan Indian settlement in Amherst County in 1914. The woman was reportedly the grandmother of forty-three or forty-eight children, most of whom, according to the photographer, had attended school.
Founded in 1908 by the Episcopal minister Arthur Gray, the one-room school at the settlement enrolled students through the seventh grade until public school desegregation in 1963. Jackson Davis (1882–1947) was a Cumberland County native who took this photograph and many others of the Monacans as part of a series documenting the education of minority groups in Virginia.
Creator
Jackson Davis
Source
Jackson Davis, Papers, 1906-1947, Accession #3072, #3072-a, Negative Number 0032, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Date
1914
Rights
Courtesy of University of Virginia Special Collections
Coverage
central Virginia
twentieth century
Amherst
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photograph
Physical Dimensions
4" x 6"
Collection
Citation
Jackson Davis, “Old woman in door of log cabin. Indian Settlement. Grandmother of 48 (43?),” Virginia Indian Archive, accessed March 20, 2023, https://virginiaindianarchive.org/items/show/58.