This sketchbook of ledger drawings was sent in 1890 to Dwight or Daniel Pierson, brothers who lived in LeRoy, NY, by Reverend William Saul Native Deacon, Rosebud Agency. Both Pierson brothers had sent school supplies, copies of Harper’s Weekly and other reading materials to a school at the Rosebud Agency, probably the Cut Meat School, where a friend of the family, Mary Parmalee, taught.

David Parmalee (Alfred Parmalee’s son) and his wife Mary came to the Rosebud Agency from Iowa, shortly after they were married in 1882, to take charge of St. John's Mission. By 1890, they owned and ran a trading post at Cut Meat on the Rosebud Reservation.

The Rosebud School Album was in the family home in LeRoy, New York. Dwight Pierson passed away in 1939, after which the book entered the possession of his sister, Kara Pierson McPherson. She married Roy McPherson, and Nancy McPherson Norman inherited it in 2003 from her mother, Janet McPherson.