Wirth, Christine

Student file of Christine Wirth, a member of the Assiniboine Nation, who entered the school on June 19, 1891 and departed on July 6, 1897. The file contains a student information card, returned student surveys, a report after leaving, and a letter/correspondence. The file indicates Wirth was keeping house at the Fort Peck Agency in Poplar,…

Student information card of Christine Wirth, a member of the Assiniboine Nation, who entered the school on June 19, 1891 and departed on July 6, 1897. The file indicates that Wirth graduated in 1897, married Grant O. West, and was living in Poplar, Montana in 1913.

Studio portrait of Christine (also known as Tenie) Wirth.

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. 

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.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a list of the Graduating Class of 1897 of the Carlisle Indian School to W. N. Hailmann along with his assessment of their character and efficiency.