Keywords: Early class of young ladies at Albuquerque Indian School - NARA - 292869.tif Scope and content This is one of a small collection of photographs of the Albuquerque Indian School which was established in 1881 to provide off-reservation industrial training to the Indians of the Southwest By 1912 the school had 8 primary grades and over 300 students; by 1925 enrollment increased to over 800 students and grades 11 and 12 were added The Albuquerque Indian School contined operating until 1982 when its program was transferred to the Santa Fe Indian School General notes 292869 Local identifier Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Albuquerque Indian School 1947 - ca 1964 NARA's Rocky Mountain Region Denver NRGA Building 48 Denver Federal Center West 6th Avenue and Kipling Street Denver CO 80225-0307 other date ~ 1900 Record group Record Group 75 Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1793 - 1999 Record group ARC 404 General Correspondence File of the Albuquerque Indian School compiled 1881 - 1936 Series ARC 292863 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRG-75-AISP-6 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Portraits of sitting girls Albuquerque Indian School Albuquerque in the 1880s New Mexico in the 1880s |