[Col. Richard Henry Pratt on horseback, founder and superintendant of the Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. ]

[Col. Richard Henry Pratt on horseback, founder and superintendant of the Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. ]

The creation of Indian Boarding Schools across the United States.

A photograph of General Richard Pratt, founder of the first Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Credited with the infamous belief "kill the Indian, save the man."

Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

United State Library of Congress

1901

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1 photographic print : cyanotype.