A group of Native American children, identified as pupils at the Umatilla Indian School, are seated at desks in a classroom. Each child is looking at an open book. A female teacher is looking on from the back of the classroom. There is a blackboard on the back wall of the room. Sunlight is streaming in through windows on the right of the photograph.
A group of men and women identified as employees of the Umatilla Indian School, are posing in front of a wooden building, possibly the schoolhouse. Two storeys of the building are visible, with two windows seen on each storey. Some of women and one of the men are seated on the ground in front of the other people who are standing. The men all wear hats and all but one wear European American suits. The man on the far left of the image is dressed in what appears to be a Chinese laborer's outfit of the period; he appears to be Chinese. The women all wear European American clothing of the period (long skirts and long-sleeved blouses with high-necked collars.) All the women wear their hear pulled up off their necks.
A group of European American men and women, identified as the personnel of St. Andrews Roman Catholic Mission School of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, are standing in front of a side of a building. They are arranged in three rows. The women, who are all wearing a nun's habit, are standing in the first two rows with their hands clasped. Rosary beads and crucifix necklaces are visible on some of the women. Seven women are in the front row. Six women are in the second row. Six men are in the back row. The men are all wearing clerical collars. The man on the far left, the third man from the left, and the second man from the right are wearing clerical hats. The third man from the right is wearing a light-colored overcoat. The rest of the men are wearing dark-colored priestly garments. The building appears to be wooden with a stone or concrete foundation. Two doors are directly behind the group. Two windows are visible to the far left and to the far right. Wooden planks, forming a sidewalk, lead away from the group to the bottom right.
