Black and white studio image of a woman standing beside a chair. She wears a tightly fitted dark dress, with a buttoned bodice featuring embroidered trim and a ruffled lace collar. Her skirt is draped, also appliqud and embroidered, and gathered in the back into a bustle. She holds a fan in the hand resting on the back of the chair. Her bangs are curly and her hair is pulled back and piled on top of her head.
Black and white studio image of a man in a suit. He stands behind a velvet chair, with one hand on the back of the chair and one behind his back. His suit is all of the same material, and has a very narrow lapel and collar. He is light-complexioned, with dark hair parted at the side and slicked down.
Four men dressed as cowboys, identified on the back of the photograph from left-to-right as: Albert Tozier, Henry Sicade, Ben Martin, and James Hopkins. Sicade was a notable member of the Puyallup Tribe. He entered the Forest Grove Indian School in 1880 before enrolling in regular high school classes at Tualatin Academy nearby around 1883. Later in life, he went on to found an integrated public school system in Fife, WA, near the Puyallup Reservation. Albert Tozier was also notable: He later became the editor of several newspapers in Washington County, Oregon. At the time that this photograph was created, the four young men had taken on work as cowboys and traveled together across the country. This studio portrait was made in Geneva, New York, in 1886.
An outdoor portrait taken in 1881 or 1882 of twelve male students from the Puyallup tribal agency who were attending the Forest Grove Indian School. Those pictured appear to be from the first group of students from Puyallup who were admitted to the school on February 25, 1880. Notes penciled on the back of the photograph identify several of them as: Augustus Kautz; Nugen Kautz; David Brewer; Henry Sicade; Peter Kalama; and Jerry Meeker. The Kautz brothers are the two standing in the back row, wearing similar darker-colored suits. A descendant has also identified Samuel "Spott" McCaw as the student sitting furthest left on the bottom row.
The remaining students probably include five of the other seven boys who were admitted in the same cohort from Puyallup: Charles Ashue, Samuel Ashue, Edward Richard, Andrew Richard, Peter Stanup, Harry Taylor, and Willie Wilton.
The back appears to be signed by Henry Sicade, who was one of the most successful former students of the school. This copy is water-damaged. This portrait was taken on the grounds of the Forest Grove Indian School by a photographer from the I.G. Davidson Studio, whose office was in Portland. It is part of a series of photographs of the school that were shot, sold and distributed by the Davidson Studio, with a portion of the sales going to support the school.
