Portrait of Josephine, Christina and Joseph Allard, Snohomish children

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Portrait of three students who attended the Forest Grove Indian Training School and/or Chemawa Indian School in Salem: Josephine Allard, Christina (or Christine) Allard, and Joseph Allard. Josephine and Christina entered the Indian School in August, 1884, according to its roster. Joseph's name is not recorded in the roster for Forest Grove; he may have been admitted after the school moved to Salem. The Allard children were members of the Snohomish tribe. This photograph was probably dates from around 1889-1891, based on the ages of the children and the active dates of the photographer, who was a woman named Myra E. Sperry (Robinson, Oregon Photographers, 1993, p. 611).