Iron on the Head, Mary

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First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879

Note: This image is different from the more commonly seen one. Here there are only twelve people in the back row, not thirteen (it is not yet determined who is not present here)....

Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

First group of female students [version 1], 1879

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at right.

This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (...

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

First group of female students [version 2], 1879

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left.

Format: Stereograph

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

First group of female students [version 3], 1879

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left.

Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Mary (Brings a Woman) Student Information Card

Student information card of Mary, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on February 20, 1882.

Note: This student is also known as Brings a Woman.

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration