Photograph Collections

Overview of Records

Repository: Providence Archives, Seattle, WA

Dates: 1882-1988

Abstract: Photographs document the facilities, personnel, and activities of Providence of Mary Immaculate School, DeSmet, Idaho.

Quantity: 3 linear feet

Administrative Information

Restrictions: Providence Archives is a private repository; access to some records is at the discretion of the archivist.

Preferred Citation: [Description or number of cited item]. (59) Providence of Mary Immaculate School Photograph Collection, Providence Archives, Seattle, Washington.

Accession Information: These photographs were transferred to the Archives by the school and by sisters who worked there over a period of years.  Some photographs or subseries may bear an accession number, e.g. 96:152.

Processing Information: Photographs were added to the collection over the years by Archives staff. Parts of the collection were processed beginning in 2005; processing was completed February 2008 by Peter Schmid.

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Series A: Facilities

A1 Sr. Anatolie’s Drawings

Dates: 1919

Transparencies from original hand-drawn plats by Sr. Anatolie of Montreal.

A2 Building

Dates: 1965-66; n.d.

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Series B: Personnel

B1 Native Americans

Dates: n.d.

B2 Students

Dates: 1882; 1967; 1973

B3 Sisters

Dates: 1941; n.d.

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Series C: Departments

C1 Library

Dates: 1988

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Series D: Subjects

D1 DeSmet

Dates: n.d.

D2 Mission Church

Dates: 1928; n.d.

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Series E: Albums & Scrapbooks

E1 Album I

Dates: 1950; 1953-54; 1956-57; 1962; 1965-67; n.d.

Photographs removed from album. 32 items.

E2 Album II

Dates: 1895; 1889; 1900; 1905; 1909-12; 1915; 1917; 1920; 1928-30;   1932; 1935-36; 1940; 1950; n.d.

Photographs removed from album. This album was originally donated to the former St. Ignatius Province Archives by Mildred Parr, then “renovated” in 1971-72.

E3 Album III

Dates: 1920; 1925; 1928-32; 1934-36; 1938-40; 1943; 1945; 1950; 1952-53; 1956-57; 1964-65; n.d.

E4 Album IV

Dates: 1915; 1917-18; 1920; 1922; 1925-42; 1945-47; 1951-52; 1959;  1967; n.d.

E5 Album V

Dates: 1963-1969

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