Portrait of Walter Burwell, Native Alaskan · Deaths at Chemawa Indian School

[Front:] W. P. Johnson, Salem, Or. [Back]: Walter Burwell. W. P. Johnson, Artist, Commercial Street, Salem, Oregon. May 3 1887.

Title: Portrait of Walter Burwell, Native Alaskan
Description: Portrait of Walter Burwell, a Native Alaskan Tlingit from Sitka. He attended the Forest Grove Indian Training School and Chemawa School beginning on April 25, 1881 and graduated in 1886. He died on September 2, 1887. This photograph was printed in May 1887, just four months before his death. He is wearing a "B" pin on his lapel. In the last year of his life, Burwell worked as the head baker for the school.
Creator: W. P. Johnson, photographer, Salem, Oregon
Date: 1887
Identifier: PUApic_008316.jpg
Subject: Off-reservation boarding schools; Native American Studies; Chemawa Indian School
Source: Forest Grove Indian School Collection, Pacific University Archives
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Type: Still Image

Item sets: Pacific University Historic Photographs; The Forest Grove Indian Training School; Pacific University Archives DPLA

Media: https://exhibits.lib.pacificu.edu/files/original/323cfe6f2e80e04b3206f9bb023506ab.jpg; [Front:] W. P. Johnson, Salem, Or. [Back]: Walter Burwell. W. P. Johnson, Artist, Commercial Street, Salem, Oregon. May 3 1887.