Class of 1897

Student file of Louis Mishler, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on September 13, 1895, graduated in 1897, and departed on March 11, 1897. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, a report after leaving, and letters/correspondence. The file indicates Mishler was a jointer in a factory in…

Student information card of Louis Mishler, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on September 13, 1895 and departed on March 11, 1897. The information card indicates that Mishler graduated in 1897, married Anna Johnson, and was living in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin in 1913. 

Student information card of Jonas Jackson, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, who entered the school on September 2, 1897 and departed on April 5, 1907. The card indicates that Jackson was trained as a printer, graduated in 1907 and was living in Seattle, Washington in 1913. 

Studio portrait of tweleve female and fourteen male students. 

The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF ’97. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

Samuel Gruett, Chippewa. Rob’t. Depoe, Siletz. Clarence Whitethunder, Sioux. Edw. Rogers, Chippewa. Brigman Cornelius, Oneida. Mary Miller, Chippewa. Frank…

Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. The students are identified below the image. 

This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01. 

An invitation to the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises held at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School on March 9-11, 1897. A program for the three day event is printed on the reverse side.  The invitation is for a Miss Hemminger.

The commencement program for the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The program includes a schedule of events as well as a photograph of the graduating class of 1897.

This compiled list of graduates of the Carlisle Indian School from 1889 to 1915 includes the names, Nations, and addresses of Carlisle's graduates from those class years. The compilation year of this document is believed to be circa 1915 based on its end date, and the addresses listed for some students. This list seems to list only those…