Boiler House

Caption: THE BOILER HOUSE INTERIOR.

The buildings are all heated by steam from this central plant consisting of three 100-horse-power water tube boilers. All the work of digging the trenches, laying the pipes and fitting up the buildings for the system was done by the Indian boys under the direction of a skilled…

A white man posed shoveling coal into a boiler in the boiler room. 

Two male students posed shoveling coal in the Boiler House while a white man looks on. 

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…

Two male students posed shoveling coal in the Boiler House while a white man looks on. 

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…

View of the Boiler House with a water tower behind it. A group of male students in standing in front, and the Store House can be seen in the background. 

Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909. 

View taken from beside the Large Boys' Quarters, showing them on the right, the Gymnasium at left and the Boiler House in the center in the distance. 

Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909. 

View of the boiler room with students and staff at work. 

Male students posed shoveling coal into boilers with white instructor or supervisor looking on. 

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,…

Male students posed shoveling coal into boilers with white instructor or supervisor looking on. 

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,…

Richard Henry Pratt replies to two Office of Indian Affairs letters regarding the construction of the Boiler House and the pay of student Nellie Carey as a matron.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase various supplies and materials connected to the new heating plant including iron pipes and fittings.

Richard Henry Pratt requests renewal of the authority for building the brick stack to enlarge the boiler house.

Richard Henry Pratt follows up his telegram providing greater detail on the damage caused by a cyclone to various school buildings.

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests $495 for 2,000 square yards of slag roofing to replace the tin roofing on the boilerhouse. Friedman later calls attention to his request.