Rare and powerful pair of cabinet cards showing a stark visual record of the assimilationist policies of the late 19th-century U.S. government. Captured in studio portraits, the photographs depict three Pueblo children—Mary Perry, John Menaul, and Ben Thomas—from New Mexico, first as they arrived at the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and then again after three years of enforced acculturation.

The first cabinet card shows the children dressed in their traditional attire: wool blankets, headbands, and leggings, their expressions guarded as they face the camera. In the second image, taken after three years at Carlisle, they wear formal Euro-American school uniforms and stand or sit with composed postures against an ornate studio backdrop. The transformation is unmistakable—an intentional representation of the "before and after" narrative promoted by Richard Henry Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian School and proponent of the infamous philosophy, “Kill the Indian, and save the man.”

Both photographs are mounted side by side in a single archival frame, preserving the powerful juxtaposition. The lower margins of each card bear printed captions identifying the sitters and their tribal affiliation. These images are not only exceptionally scarce in their subject matter but also deeply significant, offering unfiltered insight into the personal cost of federal assimilationist policies. A rare opportunity to acquire an authentic, identified, and emotionally resonant record of Indigenous history and resistance.