Pratt, Anna Laura

The first page opens with a poem titled "English Speaking," that discouraged students from speaking their native languages. The page also includes an article titled "How Miss Fisher went to Call on the President's Wife," that described Mrs. Fracnces Cleveland's dress and the decor of White House rooms in a visit by a Carlisle Indian School…

The first page opens with a poem titled "Sound Principle But Poor Poetry," followed by "A Boy Needs a Trade," about the degradation of a ditch digger reprinted from the Detroit Free Press. There is also an article called "A Sick Man who Wanted Whiskey." The second page includes a report in the shape of a turkey titled "Our Thanksgiving Turkey…

The first page opens with the poem, "New Every Morning" by Susan Coolidge, followed by "Good Words from a Blind Young Man," which was a typewritten letter sent by Joseph Link, student of the Institution of the Blind, to Charles Wheelock (Oneida). There is also an article reprinted from the Truckee (Cal.) Republican, titled "Indian Ahead of…

Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt and his family posed with other adult white men and women with children, probably staff and teachers. 

This image is dated July 14, 1884. 

Studio portrait of Anna Mason Pratt, Richard Henry Pratt's wife. 

Samuel Chapman Armstrong writes to Richard Henry Pratt authorizing travel expenses for Mrs. Pratt and Etadleuh to recruit Indian youth for Hampton alongside Pratt. Armstrong also discusses some opposition that he and Pratt will face in their work.

E. A. Hitchcock, Interior Secretary, disallows all expenses incurred in securing students from Alaska from 1903.

Anna Laura Pratt replies to a letter of Fannie Peter thanking Peter for her letter and providing an update on her life since the death of her husband Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt notes that she plans to donate Indian Office Reports to Dickinson College as well as complete the book Richard Henry Pratt had nearly finished writing. Additionally, she…