Blacksmith Shop

View of students and instructor posed working in front of the blacksmith's shop. One student is shoeing a horse. 

View of students and instructor posed working in front of the blacksmith's shop. One student is shoeing a horse. 

View of the exterior of a brick building with the sign "Blacksmith and Wagon Shop," with a wagon and a white man in front and two men in the doorway. 

View of students and instructors posed with wheels in front of a brick building with the sign "Blacksmith and Wagon Shop." 

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-068b, PA-CH3-013a, and BS-CH-054. 

Caption: THE BLACKSMITH SHOP.

The Indian boys soon become adepts in this trade, forging the horseshoe and setting it, learning to fashion the iron to any desired shape, working bar steel into tools with skill and readiness hardly credible unless witnessed.

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Caption: THE BLACKSMITH SHOP INTERIOR.

has five forges, each one requiring two hands for morning and two for afternoon work. The principal work is building wagons of which the Government is the chief purchaser. Last year one wagon was shipped to a Negro mission school in Africa, the missionary, Mr. Stuart,…

Male student posed shoeing a horse, with white male instructor holding the horse. Two male students are in the background with blacksmithing tools. 

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…

Male students and white male instructors posed working in the Blacksmith 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…

View of students posed shoeing a horse in the Blacksmith Shop.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-126 and 14B-11-04) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#60). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two…

Students working in the blacksmith shop. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image; a print (14B-11-01) and one a glass plate negative (00314A#79). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the print (and others in this series)  are in…

View of students and instructor working in the Blacksmith Shop.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-125 and 14B-11-02) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#22). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two…

View of students and instructor working in the Blacksmith Shop.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-124 and 14B-11-03) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#23). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two…

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to build a new blacksmith and wagon shop at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt submits specifications, estimate of supplies and labor, and blueprints.