Schaffner, Lillie

Portrait of thirty-one female students, with one white woman in the center, posed in front of the flag pole on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the What-so-ever Circle, the white woman as Miss Shaffner, and provides a date of October 1892.

The What-So-Evers were a "circle" or a subgroup of the female…

Portrait of thirty-one female students, with one white woman in the center, posed in front of the flag pole on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the What-so-ever Circle. The National Anthrpological Archives copy of this image also identifies the name of the group, and also the white woman as Miss Shaffner, and…

Richard Henry Pratt sends a telegram to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs requesting an immediate answer to Miss Shaffner's and Miss Pratt's applications for leave of absence.