Grace as a Young Woman

ID: 936 ~ Source: Family Photographs: Grace as a Young Woman; 1940; Grace F. Thorpe Collection, Box 8, Folder 4; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution. ~ Creator: National Museum of the American Indian. ~ Date: Ca. 1940
This file appears in: Childhood and Education
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This is a picture of Grace as a teenager.

This file appears in: Childhood and Education

By Grace Thorpe
“I was in my teens, my early teens then. And then Mother remarried and took my two older sisters and I into Chicago. But I left school at fifteen, and I like to say that’s when I really started learning. I know school people don’t like me to tell…