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.
Iron on the Head, Mary
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National Archives and Records Administration
![First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/00309B%232.jpg?itok=ep1tLMr7 "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). Sarah Mather and Charles Tackett are not included, and…
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Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
![First group of female students [version 1], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_012a.jpg?itok=inqzvuM7 "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 (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).
The…
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Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
![First group of female students [version 2], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0037.jpg?itok=1bkZ7aqY "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.
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Stereograph
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![First group of female students [version 3], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/00309B%231.jpg?itok=oo4QV0uj "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.
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Format:
Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society