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A yearbook of sorts describing programs and students of the school. This version Saint John's only.

A photo of boys and monks posed in front of the Abbey Church.

The Old Stone House, destroyed by a tornado in 1894, was home to the Indian Industrial School at Saint John's. The upper floors held dormitory rooms, and the lower level contained classroom space and workshops such as the tailor shop and shoe shop. …

Photo of three monks and boys posed in front of Old Stone House, home to the Saint John's Indian Industrial School.

A catalog of the Indian Industrial School at Saint John's. The introduction states "The object of St. John's Industrial School is what the name implies. The pupils are in the hands of efficient teachers and of practical craftsmen, whose endeavor it…

A posed photo of an Indian boys' team in Collegeville, Minnesota. The 1888 catalog of the Industrial School lists two baseball clubs, "Nin Songideeminanig B.B.C." and "The Little Fellows B.B.C.".

Boys in uniform from Saint John’s Industrial School for Native Americans and Fathers Isidore Siegler, Benno Ferstl, and Roman Homar. The Indian Industrial School was established with the hope that the Chippewa Indian boys from White Earth, Minnesota…

A catalog for both the Saint John's and Saint Benedict's boarding schools as well as the mission school in White Earth.

Boys in the shoe shop. Half of each boy's day was devoted to academics, and half to apprenticing in "industrial" trades such as the tailor and shoe shop, gardening and farming, and cooking.