Carpenter Shop

This image also appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 40.

Caption: THE CARPENTER SHOP.

One of the most useful and popular trades taught is that of carpentering. The Master Carpenter with his Indian boys is able to undertake…

Seven male students and a white male instructor posed in the carpenter shop.

In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston to document the school at Carlisle for an exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Johnston visited the school in…

Six male students posed in the carpenter shop.

This image, with the caption SAWING AND PLANING,  appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.31].

The caption on this postcard reads: CARPENTER SHOP AND TAILORING DEPT, INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

The postcard was addressed to Miss Gillie M. Atherton, Greencastle, Pa.

The message reads: "Reach home safe and sound. I am well hoping you are the same. got done about 8 o'clock. Sunday being work hard on Monday…

View of students posed working in the Carpenter Shop. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-128 and 14B-14-02) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#84). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two…

View of students posed working in the Carpenter Shop.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-129 and 14B-14-03) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#74). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints…

View of students posed working in the Carpenter Shop.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-130 and 14B-14-01) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#85). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints…

Views of students posed working in the Carpenter Shop. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-140 and 14B-13-05) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#76). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two…

Views of students posed working in the Carpenter Shop. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image; a print (14B-14-04) and a glass plate negative (00314A#75). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line…

Views of students posed working in the Carpenter Shop. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image; a print (14B-14-05) and a glass plate negative (00314A#77). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line…

Views of students posed working in the Carpenter Shop. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image; a print (14B-14-06) and a glass plate negative (00314A#78). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line…

View of the school's wood shop with students standing working at tables. 

Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently…