Engler, Frank

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Frank Engler Student File
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Student file of Frank Engler, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on September 6, 1880 and ultimately departed on October 14, 1885. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards.

In school documentation Frank Engler is also known as Frank and…

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National Archives and Records Administration
Frank Engler Student Information Card
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Student information card of Frank Engler, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on September 6, 1880 and departed on October 14, 1885.

 

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National Archives and Records Administration
The Indian Helper (Vol. 1, No. 21 & No. 22)
January 8, 1886

The first page opened with a poem titled “Smile Whenever You Can," followed by a lesson titled, "What Is Polite?" and a description of the life cycles of certain mammals. Page two featured the "Forty-Ninth Congress" civics lesson comparing government to the Indian school’s debating clubs in which Congress would be debating the question of…

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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
The Indian Helper (Vol. 2, No. 45)
June 17, 1887

This issue opened with a poem titled “A CLUSTER OF NEVERS,” from Selected, followed by a fictionalized conversation between two boys traveling to their homes in the west from Carlisle titled “TWO BOYS TALK IN THE CARS ON THEIR WAY HOME: WHAT THEY MAY HAVE SAID.” In the conversation, “Ira” and “Bart” muse about their appreciation of…

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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
The Indian Helper (Vol. 4, No. 45)
June 28, 1889

The first page opened with a poem by titled “When a Girl Knows How” to sew, bake and knit followed by “You Home-Going Boys and Girls: Will you be in the New or the Old of the Moon?” which asked J.H. Segar what the Cheyenne and Arapho boys and girls were doing at their agency in Cantonment, Oklahoma. Page two continued the news from Cantonment…

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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Frank Engler, c.1881

Studio portrait of Frank Engler. 

Note: The Historical Society has two copies of this image, 13-29-04 and PA-CH1-063d.

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Frank Engler, c.1882

Studio portrait of Frank Engler. 

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Glass Plate Negative
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National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches [version 1], c.1882

Studio portrait of Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches, all wearing school uniforms.

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Glass Plate Negative
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National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches [version 2], c.1882

Studio portrait of Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches, all wearing school uniforms.

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Request to Allow Frank Engler to Visit His Home
January 22, 1883

Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to allow Frank Engler to return home due to his mother's illness. Pratt writes that other members of the Cheyenne Nation have pooled their money to cover Engler's transportation expense and recommends allowing him to return for a brief time.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Former Student Survey Responses, 1890 (Part 2 of 5)
June 4-13, 1890

A series of fifteen letters written to Captain Richard H. Pratt in response to a questionnaire sent to former students. The accompanying questionnaire forms are not included.

 

Transcripts follow each handwritten letter.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration