Construction of the first Haskell Institue buildings was completed on July 1, 1884, and seventeen students began the very first term in September of the same year. By 1898, Haskell had grown to be the second largest school secondary boarding school for Native Americans in the United States, with over 500 students enrolled representing fifty different tribes.

This image taken from E.F. Caldwell's "A Souvenir History of Lawrence, Kansas" published in 1898