Musician at Bacone College, Francis F. Fardig, Added to Archives

July 24 2018   Now available in our on-line catalog, an inventory of the Francis F. Fardig Papers RG 1098.    We cannot find much about Fardig, but he was music director at Bacone College in 1930-1931. He took many photographs of the campus, music groups and people, such as Acee Blue Eagle, also named Alex C. McIntosh, on the Arkansas River.   Materials in the collection are primarily from Fardig’s time at Bacone College, including many of Native American subjects, like A.C. McIntosh and school choral groups and campus buildings, many identified. File list: Bacone materials; baptism photographs, Trail of Tears pageant 1931. To see the inventory, go to: https://libraries.mercer.edu/archivesspace