Student file of Alexander Upshaw, a member of the Crow Nation, who entered the school on December 16, 1888, graduated in 1897, and departed on March 8, 1898. The file contains a student information card, newspaper clippings, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating that as of 1907 Upshaw had married Emma Young and was…
Upshaw, Alexander
![Alexander Upshaw Student File Alexander Upshaw Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b154_f6052_0003.jpg?itok=lrKL9PQw)
![Alexander Upshaw Student Information Card Alexander Upshaw Student Information Card](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1329_b003_c00u_0001.jpg?itok=i0wqlh0b)
Student information card of Alexander Upshaw, a member of the Crow Nation, who entered the school on December 16, 1888, graduated in 1897, and departed on March 8, 1898.
Note: In this card the student's name appears abbreviated as Alex.
![The Red Man and Helper (Vol. 1, No. 5) The Red Man and Helper (Vol. 1, No. 5)](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-pub/RedMan-Helper_v001-n05_0001.jpg?itok=mA7UkldY)
A description of this document is not currently available.
Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 8).
![Alexander Upshaw, c.1890 Alexander Upshaw, c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_019e.jpg?itok=08rHjhQ5)
Studio portrait of Alexander Upshaw.
![Alexander Upshaw, c.1891 Alexander Upshaw, c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_060d.jpg?itok=Y3YrX69y)
Studio portrait of Alexander Upshaw wearing a uniform.
![Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 1], 1897 Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 1], 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0032.jpg?itok=mqUFRUO9)
Studio portrait of tweleve female and fourteen male students.
The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF ’97. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.
Samuel Gruett, Chippewa. Rob’t. Depoe, Siletz. Clarence Whitethunder, Sioux. Edw. Rogers, Chippewa. Brigman Cornelius, Oneida. Mary Miller, Chippewa. Frank…
![Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 2], 1897 Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 2], 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_101.jpg?itok=5rF_uXaB)
Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. The students are identified below the image.
This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01.
![Pratt Responds to Request to Send Upshaw to Atlanta Exposition Pratt Responds to Request to Send Upshaw to Atlanta Exposition](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b1241_38989_0001.jpg?itok=E7NFpMBj)
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding sending Alexander Upshaw to the Atlanta Exposition.
![1897 Commencement Program 1897 Commencement Program](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/CIS-O-0014.jpg?itok=5wVC-kkM)
The commencement program for the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The program includes a schedule of events as well as a photograph of the graduating class of 1897.
![List of the Graduating Class of 1897 List of the Graduating Class of 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b1406_13132_0004.jpg?itok=4TrfPTYK)
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a list of the Graduating Class of 1897 of the Carlisle Indian School to W. N. Hailmann along with his assessment of their character and efficiency.