School Brass Band

The first page opened with a poem by Ella Wheeler with the first line "Oh What Am I but an Engine Shod” followed by the next installment of the series titled “How An Indian Girl Might Tell Her Own Story if She Had the Chance: Founded on Actual Observations of the Man-on-the-band-stand’s Chief Clerk” (continued from the previous week). The story…

School band and formation of students marching in a parade down Market Street in Philadelphia, showing crowds and buildings on both sides of the street. The photograph was probably taken on September 15, 1887 when the band and students marched in a parade in Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the adoption of the Constitution. Press…

Portrait of male students with brass instruments and drums posed on the steps of a school building. The very large drum in the center has "Indian Industrial School. Carlisle, PA." on it. 

Previous cataloging says that the image is dated November 1893.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna…

Male students in uniform, including what appears to be a small group of the school band at left, posed at the edge of the school grounds in front of a fence. The handwritten caption states "showing farm buildings in the distance." 

The school band followed by the baseball team marching down a street in a residential area of Carlisle. 

The identification of the baseball team is based on the captions on the front and back of the image. The rest of the information is not legible. 

The reverse side has a ghost image of an unrelated baseball team.…