Offering a scarce Sherman Institute Riverside, California Milk Bottle. One pint.
Sherman Institute was originally opened in 1892 as the Perris Indian School in Perris, California, but it was relocated to Riverside in 1903 and renamed The Sherman Institute, after the lobbying efforts of Frank Miller, who owned a thriving hotel, The Glenwood Inn (later renamed The Mission Inn). Miller wanted the school to be nearby as a source of labor for his hotel, which was designed to resemble one of the original Southern California missions. He believed that having an Indian school in the city and Indian workers providing local color would give his hotel an Old California, Spanish colonial ambience and attract tourists. The school was later named Sherman Indian High School, and while not as draconian as other off-reservation boarding schools, Sherman still believed in transforming every aspect of the students’ lives, from the clothes they wore, to what they studied in class, to the language they spoke. The school had a farm and a dairy that this bottle represents.
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