Francis A. Barnum, S.J., in native Alaskan dress, surrounded by Georgetown students in front of Healy Hall
Francis A. Barnum, S.J., was born in Baltimore in 1849. He was educated at Georgetown College and after a period of world travel joined the Society of Jesus in 1880. He spent most of the 1890s in Alaska where he accumulated a knowledge of native Alaskan languages. In 1901 he published a grammar of I...
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ftgeorgetownuniv:oai::10822/551509 2023-05-15T16:07:00+02:00 Francis A. Barnum, S.J., in native Alaskan dress, surrounded by Georgetown students in front of Healy Hall Anonymous 1900 JPEG black-and-white photographs 9.5 in. x 7 in. photographic print http://hdl.handle.net/10822/551509 unknown Georgetown University APT-BAG: georgetown.edu.10822_551509.tar;APT-ETAG: aea5fd2635033b721f115eeae0bb7d14; APT-DATE: 2017-09-11_12:03:43 http://hdl.handle.net/10822/551509 All Rights Reserved by Georgetown University Library. Jesuit heritage Learning environment Teachers Students Clergy Barnum Francis 1849-1921 Inuit Inuit--Clothing Georgetown University. Healy Hall Jesuits Georgetown University--Students Teachers--Washington (D.C.) image 1900 ftgeorgetownuniv 2018-03-09T23:35:53Z Francis A. Barnum, S.J., was born in Baltimore in 1849. He was educated at Georgetown College and after a period of world travel joined the Society of Jesus in 1880. He spent most of the 1890s in Alaska where he accumulated a knowledge of native Alaskan languages. In 1901 he published a grammar of Inuit entitled "Grammatical fundamentals of the Innuit language as spoken by the Eskimo of the western coast of Alaska." Fr. Barnum left Alaska in 1898, serving briefly as chaplain on Ward's Island in New York Harbor, before returning to Georgetown where he was made archivist. The "stray notes" he wrote during his tenure as archivist are among the most vivid surviving accounts of day-to-day life on Georgetown's campus, from his school days in the 1860s through the early twentieth century. Fr. Barnum died at Georgetown in 1921. Repository: Booth Family Center for Special Collections. For more information about this collection please email: speccoll@georgetown.edu Still Image eskimo* inuit Alaska Georgetown University: DigitalGeorgetown |
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Francis A. Barnum, S.J., was born in Baltimore in 1849. He was educated at Georgetown College and after a period of world travel joined the Society of Jesus in 1880. He spent most of the 1890s in Alaska where he accumulated a knowledge of native Alaskan languages. In 1901 he published a grammar of Inuit entitled "Grammatical fundamentals of the Innuit language as spoken by the Eskimo of the western coast of Alaska." Fr. Barnum left Alaska in 1898, serving briefly as chaplain on Ward's Island in New York Harbor, before returning to Georgetown where he was made archivist. The "stray notes" he wrote during his tenure as archivist are among the most vivid surviving accounts of day-to-day life on Georgetown's campus, from his school days in the 1860s through the early twentieth century. Fr. Barnum died at Georgetown in 1921. Repository: Booth Family Center for Special Collections. For more information about this collection please email: speccoll@georgetown.edu |
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