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New York's Oldest Squaw Reaches the Century Mark A short time ago, Mrs. Susznne Dibeaux, reached the 100 year mark. She lives alone, the oldest member of about 100 Indians in this city, members of the fast diminishing Six Nations, all powerful in the days of Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express. She does not mind living alone, she claims. She makes little trinkets to sell. At times she receives a call to appear as a "crone" in Indian pictures being just the type. She receives a pension from the Government for her late husband, dead a year, a Civil War hero. She has been in New York for 60 years and would not go to any reservation, for as she says "there are no movies there". Though old, she still bears the stamp of the stoical calm and fortitude which made her people the powerful tribe they were in the heyday

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Title:
New York's Oldest Squaw Reaches the Century Mark A short time ago, Mrs. Susznne Dibeaux, reached the 100 year mark. She lives alone, the oldest member of about 100 Indians in this city, members of the fast diminishing Six Nations, all powerful in the days of Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express. She does not mind living alone, she claims. She makes little trinkets to sell. At times she receives a call to appear as a "crone" in Indian pictures being just the type. She receives a pension from the Government for her late husband, dead a year, a Civil War hero. She has been in New York for 60 years and would not go to any reservation, for as she says "there are no movies there". Though old, she still bears the stamp of the stoical calm and fortitude which made her people the powerful tribe they were in the heyday
Description:
[Information from item housing] Indians: Misc.
Photographer:
Keystone View Company
Name on Item:
Keystone View Co.
Date:
[ca. February 1927]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 205 x 154 mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9p293981q
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title(s) from item.
Preferred Citation:
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue, Boston Public Library
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Boston University, College of Communication, 1977/1978.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Identifier:
22_10_001291_0015
Barcode:
39999088103351