Brown, Shela Guthrie

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Shela Guthrie Brown (Che-ke-kah) Student File
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Student file of Shela Guthrie Brown, a member of the Sac & Fox Nation, who entered the school on August 29, 1896 and ultimately departed on April 5, 1911. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, applications for enrollment, medical/physical records, a news…

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National Archives and Records Administration
Shela Guthrie Brown Progress Card
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Progress card of Shela Guthrie Brown, a member of the Sac & Fox Nation, who entered the school on August 29, 1896.

Note: Although this card indicates that Guthrie reentered the school on September 24, 1906, other records show that she had first enrolled at Carlisle on August 29, 1896.

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National Archives and Records Administration
Shela Guthrie Brown Student Information Card
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Student information card of Shela Guthrie Brown (here Shela B.), a member of the Sac & Fox Nation, who entered the school on August 29, 1896 and departed on April 5, 1911.

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National Archives and Records Administration
Emily Poodry Student File
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Student file of Emily Poodry, a member of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, who entered the school on September 2, 1906 and ultimately departed on June 4, 1914. The file contains an application for enrollment, a student information card, medical/physical record, an outing evaluation, an outing record, a progress/conduct card, financial transactions…

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National Archives and Records Administration
The Red Man and Helper (Vol. 1, No. 11)
September 21, 1900

A description of this document is not currently available.

Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 14).

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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Shela Guthrie Brown, c.1897

Studio portrait of Shela Guthrie Brown holding a doll. 

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students as "Indian Squaws" in "The Captain of Plymouth" [pose 1], 1909

Group portrait of twelve female students wearing costumes, standing and facing forward. They are the "Indian Squaws," characters in the performance of the play, "The Captain of Plymouth," produced at the school from March 29-March 31, 1909.

According to the program for the performance, these students are Jane Butler, Shela Guthrie Brown…

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students as "Indian Squaws" in "The Captain of Plymouth" [pose 2], 1909

Group portrait of twelve female students wearing costumes, standing, turned so that the prop "papooses" containing dolls they are wearing on their backs are visible. They are the "Indian Squaws," characters in the performance of the play, "The Captain of Plymouth," produced at the school from March 29-March 31, 1909.

According to the…

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students as "Indian Squaws" in "The Captain of Plymouth" [pose 3], 1909

Group portrait of twelve female students wearing costumes, kneeling and holding prop "papooses" containing dolls in front of them. They are the "Indian Squaws," characters in the performance of the play, "The Captain of Plymouth," produced at the school from March 29-March 31, 1909.

According to the program for the performance, these…

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Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Male and Female Student Cast of "The Captain of Plymouth", 1909

Group portrait of male and female students on stage wearing costumes. They are the cast of the play, "The Captain of Plymouth," produced at the school from March 29-March 31, 1909. 

The caption written below this image was supplied by Cumberland County Historical Society staff. 

Note: There were two students named James…

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Allen Responds to a Request to Return Shela Guthrie Brown
July 26, 1904 - September 1, 1904

Edgar A. Allen responds to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding a request for the return of Shela Guthrie Brown.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Tuberculosis Investigation by Joseph Murphy for February 1909
February 19, 1909

This material includes a forwarded press copy report detailing the findings of Medical Supervisor Joseph A. Murphy's investigation of tuberculosis at the Carlisle Indian School in 1909. This report includes a list of pupils diagnosed with tuberculosis and recommended to be sent home, as well as recommendations for changes to the dormitories.…

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
Program for "The Captain of Plymouth," 1909
March 29, 1909

The program for "The Captain of Plymouth," performed as part of the Commencement Exercises of 1909.  The program lists the various acts of the performance as well as the student actors.

Note: In two cases it is unclear which student is referred to: Mary Cooke in this program could refer to Mary Cook (who entered in 1901) or Mary…

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Books and Pamphlets
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Cumberland County Historical Society