Okanogan Baseball Team vs. Mission Team, ca. 1910
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Title
Okanogan Baseball Team vs . Mission Team , ca. 1910
Photographer
Matsura , Frank , 1873-1913 .
Description
The Okanogan Baseball Team is seen in action as it plays the Colville Indians living at the Mission , near Omak Lake . Run since 1886 by Catholic priest , Fr . Etienne DeRouge , the Mission operated a post office , church and a junior college--complete with a skilled baseball team . Some Catholic settlers around Okanogan also sent their children to the Mission for Jesuit based education . In 1902 , Fr . DeRouge changed the settlement's post office name to Omak , but in 1907 , with the incorporation of the town of Omak some miles north , DeRouge changed the name back to St . Mary's Mission . In 1915 , fire destroyed the original college building , but the school continued on.
Subject
Athletes--Washington (State)--Okanogan ; Baseball players--Washington (State)--Okanogan ; Colville Indians ; Games--Washington (State)--Okanogan ; Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Okanogan
Date
1910~
Type
Image
Genre
Photographic prints
Location
North and Central America--United States--Washington (state)--Okanogan county--Omak--St . Mary's Mission
Identifier
pc035b1f12n41
Source
Is found in PC 35, Frank S. Matsura Collection https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc35.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item went into public domain 70 years after the 1913 death of the author.
Restrictions
For permission to publish please contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (509) 335-6691 or the Okanogan Historical Society (509) 422-4272
Format
Original photographic prints were scanned as 300 dpi TIFF files on a Microtek 9600XL scanner. 72 dpi JPEG files were then added to the CONTENT database at the WSU Libraries.
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