A group portrait of students from the Umatilla tribe at the Forest Grove Indian Training School. The students are probably those who arrived as a group from Umatilla lands in October 1881: Haley (or Hallay) George; Emma Winnum; Tina Lowry; Winnie Abrahams; Albert John; Charley Wilhelm; William Barnhart; Moses Price Minthorn; Hugh [Minthorn?]; and Roy Cook. The caption notes that this was number 35 in a series of photographs by I.G. Davidson, a photography studio based in Portland. The photograph is one of several group portraits of students at the school, which were intended to demonstrate how the school dressed the students and taught them to behave according to the norms of white society.
A portrait of Peter Kalama, a former student of the Forest Grove Indian Training School, with his family. Peter was of Nisqually and Native Hawaiian ancestry. The woman is most likely his first wife, Lillie Pitt, a Warm Springs woman who also graduated from the Forest Grove Indian School. This photograph was probably taken on the Warm Springs Reservation, where the Kalama Family lived for many years. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph states that this photograph was given by the estate of Charles L. Walker to Pacific University in 1949. Charles L. Walker was the son of Samuel A. T. Walker, the shoemaking instructor at the Forest Grove Indian School in the early 1880s.
A portrait of G. W. Hutchinson, M. D., originally of Jamestown, Missouri. At the time that this photograph was taken at the W. P. Johnson Photography Studio in Salem, Hutchinson was serving as the School Physician for the Chemawa Indian School (see: Official Register of the United States. Washington: GPO, 1887. Vol. 1: p. 575). This photo was originally found with material relating to the Samuel A. T. Walker Family. The Walkers also worked at the Indian School.
A portrait of an unidentified Native American girl, most likely a student at the Chemawa Indian School in Salem. The photograph was taken by the W. P. Johnson studio in Salem, which was active from 1886-1888 (See: Robinson, Oregon Photographers, 1993, p. 394). It is dated November 11, 1886 on the back. The photo was found with material relating to the Samuel A.T. & Belle Walker family.
