Images

Studio portrait of Nikefer Shoushick. 

The caption reads: Band Stand and Girls Quarters, Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.

The handwritten note on the front reads: Juliette Smith Carlisle Pa

The postcard is addressed to Marba Marlin in Roxbourgh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Studio portrait of Salem Moses.

Studio portrait of Caroline Helms.

Studio portrait of James Browndog wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of James E. Johnson wearing football clothing.

Studio portrait of Charles Cusick. 

Studio portrait of Rose La Forge, Katie Helen Adams, Charlotte Geisdorff and three unidentified young women.

Studio portrait of Jonas Jackson.

Studio portrait of Frank Campeau.

Studio portrait of Sherman Chadlesome.

Studio portrait of William Jollie in a uniform holding a sousaphone. 

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Frank Yarlot & George Pradt. School friends of Mothers.

James E. Johnson in his Carlisle football uniform.

The poster reads: COMING! THE CARLISLE INDIAN BASE BALL CLUB
PRESENTING PRINCESS HIAWATHA CHAMPION LADY PITCHER AND A BASE BALL GAME AT NIGHT.

Team photo of the Carlisle Indian Baseball club with the team in their Carlisle uniforms.

Studio portrait of John Wizi, Thomas Saul, and Alfred Saul. All are wearing dark-colored turtleneck sweaters and dark blazers. 

Studio portrait of Nikefer Shoushick.

Inscription on back reads, "to Viola Cooper, Nikifer Shouchuk.  Remember your friend, I alway remember you, Sept. 10, 1905."

Shoushick attended the school from 1901 until 1904. This photo must have been given to Cooper after his departure.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 13-25-04 and 14A-07-01.

Studio portrait of Lillie Cornelius. 

Sewing instructor Elizabeth Searight posed outdoors with twelve female students wearing school uniforms. 

Searight worked at the school from roughtly 1901 to 1915. 

Twelve female students wearing dark uniforms with "1903" on the front and baseball-style caps. They are posed in a semicircle, the three in the middle with their feet on a basketball with "1903" written on it. 

Photograph of a photograph of five male students in track clothing, posed outside, holding a banner from the "University of Pennsylvania 9th Annual Relay Races, 1903" with the participating teams listed.  

A composite collection of individual portraits of the school band's members, each posed with their instrument. The only person identified is the Band Master, James Riley Wheelock. 

Note: It is not clear that this is the School Band. It may be the United States Indian Band, an independent band formed by J.R. Wheelock after he left the school.

Photograph of a studio portrait of a large group of male and female students. At least one person, a male student, appears to have been added to the photograph after it was taken. The handwritten caption seems to say "Class 1903." 

The National Anthropological Archives has two versions of this image, both photographs of a photograph: NAA 73661; Photo Lot 81-12 06843500 and NAA 73663; Photo Lot 81-12 06843700. 

Group portrait of Richard Henry Pratt with a large number of male and female Native Americans and a few white people. There are some children in the group. 

Among the group is former student White Buffalo, and it seems likely this is a group of former students who returned, along with Pratt, to attend the school's commencement in 1903, as described in this issue of The Red Man and Helper: RedMan-Helper_v03n26-n27.pdf (dickinson.edu)

Studio photograph of the graduating class of 1903.