Lee, Francis

Student file of Francis Lee, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on October 22, 1883 and departed on July 8, 1889. The file contains a student information card listing multiple outings in Pennsylvania and report after leaving. According to the file, Francis was working as a farmer in Cantonment, Oklahoma in 1910.

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Student information card of Francis Lee, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on October 22, 1883 and departed on July 8, 1889.

Student file of Celia Harold, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on September 22, 1895 and departed on July 6, 1898. The file contains student information cards, a returned student survey, and report after leaving indicating Harold married Charley Lee and was a housewife in Canton, Oklahoma in 1911.

In school…

The first page opened with a notice that there were no Indian Helper newspapers published for December 28 and January 3rd. A notice followed: “A Novel Christmas Present: Our Superintendent Made with his own Hands a tin Cup for Each Employee.” Next was a poem, by “E.G.“dated Dec. 25, ’89 titled “The School Poet Again Stirred” about…

Portrait of twenty-four male students upon arrival. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as from the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Comanche, Pawnee, and Nez Perce nations and that the photo was taken on the date of their arrival, October 22, 1883. Twenty-three male students arrived on that date from those nations.

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Studio portrait of James Paints Yellow and (probably) Francis Lee.

Previous cataloging notes a date of December 1887 included in the handwritten caption on the image.

Studio portrait of William Short Nose and Francis Lee.

Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date December 1888.