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Original Stereoview : New Metlakantla [Metlakatla] # 222a.  Indian Home.  1890' s  albumen stereo view published by European And American Views.   Seven Tsimshian women and three young children are on the small porch of a house.  1891 can be seen chalked? onto the door.  In background there is building on the docks.   Stamped:  The Treadwell Collection

[ In 1887, New Metlakatla was founded on Annette Island, in SE Alaska by Rev.  Wm. Duncan and 800 Tsimshian Indians from British Columbia.  The U. S. Congress declared it a federal Indian reservation in 1891. ]
 

Photographer:  Not attributed.  Original 19th Century Stereoview.  Ca.  1891.  7 " x 3 1/2" 

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