Student information cards of Cyrus Windy, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and ultimately departed on June 22, 1886.
In school documentation Cyrus Windy is also known as Yellow Hair, Pa-he-je, and Cyrus Fell Star.
This issue opened with a poem titled “HOW TO BE HAPPY,” reprinted from Selected. The next item which continued on page four was a travelogue of school nurse, Miss Wilson’s, trip to Scotland, an ocean voyage that lasted eleven days, titled “AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM MISS WILSON: All the Way from Scotland.” Page two opened with a column…
Studio portrait of Cyrus Windy (standing), Samuel Townsend (seated at left), and Luke Phillips (seated at right), all wearing school uniforms.
![Cyrus Windy [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_74199.jpg?itok=fDUUnWXV "Cyrus Windy [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Cyrus Windy.
![Cyrus Windy [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-PC-004-f13.jpg?itok=0GWsV4az "Cyrus Windy [version 2], c.1885")
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Cyrus, Sioux.
This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this image: PA-…
![Ten male student printers [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73648.jpg?itok=T6ycbVG_ "Ten male student printers [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of ten male students in uniform.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image identifies them as "Printer Boys." On one copy of the image they are identified as, left to right: William Butcher, Benajah Miles, Paul Boynton, Richard Davis, Samuel Townsend, Cyrus Fell Star, Chester Cornelius, Benjamin…
![Ten male student printers [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_bsch034.jpg?itok=V-dMlhFN "Ten male student printers [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of ten male students in uniform, identified as being "Printer Boys." On one copy of the image they are identified as, left to right: William Butcher, Benajah Miles, Paul Boynton, Richard Davis, Samuel Townsend, Cyrus Fell Star, Chester Cornelius, Benjamin Thomas, Henry North, and Yamie Leeds.
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Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of students whose terms of enrollment are set to expire or for other reasons and requests authority to return them to their homes.
Reply to Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the ages of outgoing pupils.