Superintendent’s Quarters

Male and female students posed in rows on the school grounds in front of the superintendent's house. 

View of the school grounds showing the chapel and the superintendent's quarters on the right and the teachers' quarters on the left. 

View of the Superintendent's Quarters with the chapel visible beside it. Richard Henry Pratt, his wife, and an infant are posed in front of the house with a Native American man. There are two young girls on the front porch and two people on the second floor balcony. 

View of the Superintendent's Quarters with the chapel visible beside it. Richard Henry Pratt, his wife, and an infant are posed in front of the house with a Native American man. There are two young girls on the front porch and two people on the second floor balcony. 

View of students on school grounds with superintendent's quarters on the left and the girls' quarters on the right. 

View of the Superintendent's Quarters with people, including probably Richard Henry Pratt, in front of the house and on the balconies. 

View of the Superintendent's Quarters with two men leaning against the fence in front of the building. 

Carlisle Indian School student body around 1885, with the Superintendent's House in background.

Dickinson College has another copy of this image cataloged as CIS-P-0078.

Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt with a group of white adults and students posed on the porch of a building on the school grounds. 

This print of this image identifies the other white man as Inspector Morris A. Thomas and one of the white women as Mrs. Osgood (Sarah E. Osgood). The school newspaper for May 1887 reports separate visits…

Group portrait of what are presumably all or most of the school's students at the time, taken on the grounds of the central campus looking towards the northeast with the Superintendent's House, the Assistant Superintendent's House, the Small Boys' Quarters, and the Hospital in the background. 

An inscription on the reverse…

The handwritten note reads: CHOATE

The reverse side reads: Old Guard House    Capt. R. H. Pratt Supt.    Old Chapel.     Supt. Quarters.      Ass't Supt. Quarters     Small Boys' Quarters.  …

A composite of 16 photographs of the school. The captions read: Small Boys’ Quarters, Ass’t. Supt’s. Quarters, Superintendent’s Quarters, Chapel, Guard House, Hospital, Disciplinarian’s Quarters, Band Stand, After School, School Building, Large Boys’ Quarters, Christmas Dinner, School Room, Office & Teachers’ Quarters, Gymnasium,…

Group of teachers and staff in front of the Superintendent's quarters.

The printed note reads: Photographed by J. N. CHOATE, No. 21 W. Main St., Carlisle.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle PA

Stereoscopic card showing Richard Henry Pratt and his family outside in the snow, in front of the Superintendent's Quarters at the…

A panorama photo (10" x 50") of the Carlisle Indian School campus, facing east.

The caption reads: U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE, PENNA.

View of the Superintendent's Quarters. 

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 Everett Strong, were integrated into…

Major W. A. Mercer requests to spend $47.70 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1908" appropriation on porch shades and fire screens for the superintendent's quarters and supplies for the shoe shop. Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. E. Leupp grants Mercer's request.