Images

Studio portrait of thirteen female students.

The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image, written on the album page, states they are Sioux students who had entered in November 1882.

Original cataloging for this image interpreted a date of 1894 in the caption written on the plate. 

Studio portrait of Emily Ross and Ella Ross, both wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Kent Black Bear. 

Studio portrait of Frank Lock (probably standing at left) and Charlie Bird (probably seated at right. Lock is wearing a school uniform.

Studio portrait of Benjamin Thomas (Wat-ye-eh), Mary Perry (Ki-ot-se), and John Menaul Chaves (Kowsh-te-ah), all in their school uniforms.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-030a and 10B-02-02. 

Studio portrait of Frank Conroy in school uniform. 

A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: F. Conroy.

Studio portrait of Minnie Atkins probably wearing a school uniform.

The caption reads: Minnie Atkins

Studio portrait of Harry Shirley wearing school uniform.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-074c and 13-28-01.

Studio portrait of Samuel De Rauza.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-033c and 13-37-02. 

Studio portrait of Kent Black Bear (seated) and Dana Long Wolf (standing), both holding straw boater hats. 

Studio portrait of Harry Shirley wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Katie Zallawager.

Studio portrait of Jesse Paul, Charley Wolf, Samuel John, Dolly Gould, and Rebecca Little Wolf, all wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Gail Marko.

Studio portrait of visiting chief Red Cloud. This image is dated to January 1883, which coincides with a visit to the school as reported in the school paper. 

Portrait of Kent Black Bear in native clothing and feather headdress posed on a horse on the school grounds.

Studio portrait of Elizabeth Black Moon probably wearing school uniform. 

Studio portrait of Ellwood Wilbeforce (Ellwood Moon) wearing school uniform.

Note: When this student arrived he was known as Ellwood Moon. His information card notes that he later changed his name to Ellwood Wilbeforce.

Studio portrait of Henry Ouita wearing school uniform.

The caption reads: Henry Outa - 3-50 - Pd

Studio portrait of Watson Penn, George Summers, Joseph Big Wolf (seated on the floor in uniform), and a visitor (seated in a chair).

Studio portrait of Frank West wearing school uniform.

The caption reads: Frank West 3

Portrait of three unidentified male students standing behind a row of eight seated students in native dress, presumably shortly after their arrival. The group is posed on the school grounds behind the large boys' dormitory.

Male students, not in uniform, posed in a line, many holding baskets or buckets and forked sticks. At right are white men and women, posed next to and on the porches of a dormitory building. 

It has been suggested the forked sticks were used for some kind of harvesting, perhaps of apples. 

View of a bedroom or a sitting room. 

The caption on the reverse identifies it as the room of Mary R. Hyde, employed as a matron at the school between 1880 and 1885. 

View of a bedroom, presumably of a person at the school. It is likely that it was the room of a female teacher or matron, probably Mary Hyde.