Lila H. Connolly Photograph Collection

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Lila H. Connolly Photograph Collection

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Contains the following types of materials: photographs, postcards. Covers the following time period: 1900-1914. Contains photographs of the following military organization: Carlisle Indian Industrial School. General description of the collection: The Lila H. Connolly photograph collection is a small collection which belonged to Miss Lila Hall Connolly, who was Richard H. Pratt's secretary at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Many of these photos are duplicates of photos in the much larger Carlisle Indian Industrial School collection. A few that are not duplicates are of Miss Connolly's Sunday School class members. There are photos of Mr. Pratt, football players, other students, and buildings. Also included are a number of postcards some unrelated to the Carlisle Indian School, but related to native Americans.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7656135

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Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924

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Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924) was a U.S. Army officer who fought for the Union during the Civil War, served on the western frontier (to 1875), established and administered the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1904). He advocated fair treatment of U.S. Indians and strongly believed that through education they could be assimilated into American society. Richard Henry Pratt devoted his life to public service, beginning as a soldier in the Civil War and later fighting Indians on the fron...

Connolly, Lila H.

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Miss Lila Hall Connolly was an employee of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. From the description of Lila H. Connolly photograph collection. ca. 1900-1914. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 52598487 Lila H. Connolly was the secretary of Brigadier General Richard H. Pratt, founder and longtime supervisor of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. She taught Indian School students in her capacity as a Sunday school teacher. From the description...

Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Carlisle, Pa.)

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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the brainchild of a young lieutenant of the 10th United States (U.S.) Cavalry, Richard Henry Pratt. Lieutenant Pratt had great sympathy for the misery of the Indian, even while he was engaged in subduing the hostile tribes of the West. He became convinced that the solution to the Indian uprisings lay in the education of the Indian rather than in further bloodshed. No public schools allowed Indian students, but Pratt, with the help of influential sympathi...