Brown, Shela Guthrie

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…

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.

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.

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

Studio portrait of Shela Guthrie Brown holding a doll. 

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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.…

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…