Portrait of Gertrude, Ernest and Katie Brewer, Native American children · Forest Grove Indian School

Sperry The Artist, Commercial Street, Cor. Court. Salem, Oregon.

Title: Portrait of Gertrude, Ernest and Katie Brewer, Native American children
Description: Portrait of three small children, including one in a baby buggy. They are likely the children of David and Katie Brewer, who both attended the Indian Training School in Forest Grove, and continued to work at Chemawa School after graduating. If this is the case, the oldest girl is Gertrude, the middle child is Ernest, the baby is Katie Jr., and the photograph would probably date from 1891. Their father was from the Puyallup tribe and their mother was an Alaskan Native, most likely Tlingit. The photographer, Myra E. Sperry, was a woman who worked in Salem between 1889-1899 (Robinson, Oregon Photographers, 1993, p. 611). See also PUApic_008308 and PUApic_008365 for other images of the children in this family.
Creator: Sperry the Artist, photographer, Salem, Oregon
Date: 1889-1895
Identifier: PUApic_008312.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/f33ca6553491db3aad3c4c7b7095f4eb.jpg; Sperry The Artist, Commercial Street, Cor. Court. Salem, Oregon.