Sewing Room

Female students posed working in the sewing room. 

Caption: DINING ROOM AND GIRLS' INDUSTRIAL HALL.

This building, 125 x 50 feet, with a rear projection 80 x 36 feet, was erected in 1884, mainly by student labor under the direction of the school mechanics. On the lower floor is the dining room 124 x 49 x 16 feet, lighted with two arc lights, the kitchen and…

Caption THE SEWING ROOM.

In this department from twenty to sixty girls are daily employed in cutting, making and repairing all the clothing by the girls of the School, and the boys' shirts and underclothing.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle…

Female students posed with instructors at tables in the sewing room. 

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 the spring of that year and took…

Seated female students, some using sewing machines, some hand sewing. 

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…

Female students posed in sewing room with two white instructors at right. 

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 the spring of that year and…

Female students posed in the Sewing Room, some fitting dresses, some standing at tables, others seated at sewing machines. 

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…

Two female students posed seated at a desk and at a table, and another female student standing next to the desk, at one end of the sewing room. Nearby is a table with piles of printed materials, probably patterns or reference works. 

The Cumberland County Historical assigned this photograph the title "Dress Designing at the Carlisle…

The caption reads Sewing Room, Indian School, Carlisle, PA.

This image appears in Souvenir Views of Carlisle, PA (New York, NY: The Valentine Souvenir Company, c.1910).

Female students posed seated working at sewing machines, with a few posed standing at work 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…

Female students posed seated working at sewing machines, with a few posed standing at work tables, and one fitting a dress on another student in the front of the room. 

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,…

Female students posed standing wearing dresses while others work to fit the dresses for them.  The room is furnished with a dress form and a long mirror as well as the tables and chairs being used by the students. 

Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images…

The caption reads: SEWING ROOM, INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE, PA.

The reverse side includes a note from Charles Littlechief to John Francis Jr. sent from Solen, North Dakota, dated February 18, 1918.

The caption of this postcard reads SEWING ROOM, INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.

The caption on the front of this postcard reads:

The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.