Carr, Lena

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Lena Carr Student Information Card
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Student information card of Lena Carr, a member of the Pueblo Nation, who entered the school on February 4, 1881 and died on June 11, 1887. Carr is buried in the Carlisle Indian School cemetery. 

 

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National Archives and Records Administration
Lena Carr Student Information Cards
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Student information cards of Lena Carr, a member of the Pueblo Nation, who entered the school on February 4, 1881 and died on June 11, 1887. Carr was buried in the cemetery on the school grounds.

In school documentation Lena Carr is also known as Wei-shu.

 

Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
The School News (Vol. 1, No. 11)
April 1881

The opening article was written by Michael Burns (Apache), and focused on “The Indian Question.” In it he explains how many Indians falsely believe that white men are wiser simply because they are born white, and argues that their wisdom comes not from their skin color, but from more easily accessed education. The second page gives some…

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Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Lena Carr and Harry Marmon with staff [version 1], c.1882

Studio portrait of Lena Carr (seated) and Harry Marmon (standing at right) with staff members Miss Mary R. Hyde (standing in rear at left) and Miss Shiverick (standing in rear at right). 

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Lena Carr and Harry Marmon with staff [version 2], c.1882

Studio portrait of students Lena Carr and Harry Marmon with staff members Mary R. Hyde (standing in rear at left) and Harriet Hyde Shiverick (standing in rear at right). 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Jose Paisano with Nine Pueblo Students [version 1], c.1883

Studio portrait of students Mattie Reid, Anna Menaul, John Menaul, Mary Perry, Benny Thomas, Lena Carr, Clara Guernsey, Julia Dorris, and Harry Marmon with Jose Paisano, the Lieut. Gov. of Laguna. 

Identification of the sitters comes from a copy of the photograph at the American Philosophical Society Library in the…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Jose Paisano with Nine Pueblo Students [version 2], c.1883

Studio portrait of students Mattie Reid, Anna Menaul, John Menaul, Mary Perry, Benny Thomas, Lena Carr, Clara Guernsey, Julia Dorris, and Harry Marmon with Jose Paisano, the Lieut. Gov. of Laguna. 

Identification of the sitters comes from a copy of the photograph at the American Philosophical Society Library in the…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Mary K. Marmon, Lena Carr, and Harry Marmon [version 1], c.1884

Studio portrait of Mary K. Marmon (seated), Lena Carr (standing in center) and Harry Marmon (standing at right). Harry is wearing a school uniform.

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Mary K. Marmon, Lena Carr, and Harry Marmon [version 2], c.1884

Studio portrait of Mary K. Marmon (seated), Lena Carr (standing in center), and Harry Marmon (standing at right). 

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Mrs. Marmon, Lena Carr, Harry Marmon.

This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Mary K. Marmon, Lena Carr, and Harry Marmon [version 3], c.1884

Studio portrait of Mary K. Marmon (seated), Lena Carr (standing in center), and Harry Marmon (standing at right). Harry is wearing a school uniform.

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
List of Pueblo Students Brought by Sheldon Jackson in 1881
April 4, 1881

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a list of names of Pueblo students brought by the Rev. Sheldon Jackson to Carlisle in February 1881.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Return Three Students
July 5, 1884

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to return three students whose terms have expired. Two of the students, Lena Carr and Harry Marmon, stayed behind because of instructions from Dr. Sheldon Jackson but whose parents have since been requested they return. Pratt has also kept Kise to manage the Harness Shop until he can find a suitable…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
List of Students to be Returned to their Homes for May 1887
May 26, 1887

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of 80 students to return to their homes due to expiration of their terms and sickness. Pratt also details the travel arrangements for travel to the various agencies and locations. He also notes that 68 pupils whose terms have expired have elected to remain at the school.

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