Upshaw, Alexander

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…

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.

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Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 8).

Studio portrait of Alexander Upshaw.

Studio portrait of Alexander Upshaw wearing a uniform.

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…

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. 

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding sending Alexander Upshaw to the Atlanta Exposition.

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.

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.