Fisher, Effie

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Miss Fisher's class room with students, c.1885

View of students in uniforms seated at rows of desks in a school room with a white female teacher. Some students are standing in front by the chalk boards. 

The caption identifies this as Miss Fisher's class room. School records indicate Elspeth (or Effie) Fisher taught at the school from 1881 to 1892. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Seventeen unidentified male students with two white boys, c.1887

Studio portrait of seventeen unidentified male students posed with two white boys. The caption identifies them as Miss Fisher's class. School records show Effie or Elspeth Fisher taught at the school intermittently between 1881 and 1892. 

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Sunshine Scatterers [version 1], 1892

Portrait of eighteen female students, with one white woman in center, posed on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the Sunshine Scatters, the white woman as Miss Fisher and provides a date of October 1892. 

The school newspapers say that the student group the King's Daughters had four subgroups or "circles," and that…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Sunshine Scatterers [version 2], 1892

Portrait of eighteen female students, with one white woman in center, posed on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the King's Daughters and also as the Sunshine Scatters. The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of the image also identifies them as the Sunshine Scatters, but also names the…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Pratt Recommends Keeping Fisher in Current Position
September 28, 1889

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he believes in keeping Elspeth Fisher in her current position unless he receives contrary orders.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Miss Fisher's Request for Leave of Absence (Letter)
March 4, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt sends a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs advising him that teacher Effie (Elspeth) Fisher wants to use her 24-day leave of absence before she goes west to Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Miss Fisher's Request for Leave of Absence (Telegram)
March 4, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt sends a telegram to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs advising him that teacher Effie (Elspeth) Fisher wants to use her 24-day leave of absence before she goes west to Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Information on Miss Fisher's Leave of Absence
April 1, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt advises the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the dates teacher Effie (Elspeth) Miss Fisher was paid for her leave of absence. Pratt also tells the Commissioner that Fisher understood that she would not be paid a full month's pay even though she requested it. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration