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Student Body, 1892

Student body assembled on the school grounds. The female students on the left and male on the right. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
School Assembled [version 1], c.1895

The handwritten label on the slide reads: School Assembled

This image is similar to other earlier photographs where the entire student body was gathered on the school grounds and arranged in a careful formation.

Format:
Lantern Slide
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
School Assembled [version 2], c.1895

View looking north of what is presumably the entire student body assembled in neat rows on the central campus. Groups of spectators, probably teachers and staff, are standing or sitting around the nearby buildings. 

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
The Campus in Winter, c. 1895

Caption: THE CAMPUS IN WINTER.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 28.  No prints of this image have yet been located. 

Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably…

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of the Campus, #1, c. 1895

Caption: VIEW OF THE CAMPUS.

One feature of the School is the beauty of the grounds and their special adaptability to the purposes of a school. During the recreation periods the students spend many happy hours on the campus in playing croquet, tennis, ball and other games, or in quietly promenading, reading and…

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of the Campus, #2, c.1895

The photograph was taken looking south. Moving from left to right the buildings visible are: the Superintendent's Quarters, the Administration Building, the Guard House, the Academic Building, and the back of the Girls' Quarters. Male students are visible in the foreground where a tennis court is laid out, and females students can be seen in…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of the Campus, #3, c. 1895

The handwritten label on the slide reads: Campus. Evening. Printed on the label is the manufacturer of the slide C. T. Milligan, 728 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA.

The photograph was taken looking south. Moving from left to right the buildings visible are: the Superintendent's Quarters, the…

Format:
Lantern Slide
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
black and white image; view of campus from the teacher's quarters towards the large boy's quarters (facing northeast), the girl's quarters are just visible on the left and the superintendant's quarters just visible on the right, a few figures seem to run in the snow

The caption on the front reads: CAMPUS IN WINTER, U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE PA.

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

 

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Female Students on School Grounds, c. 1900

A view of the central campus with female students in the background and a young male student in the foreground. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's description states the label on this image is "Girls at Play." 

Format:
Lantern Slide
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
View of School Grounds in Winter, c. 1900

View of the central campus with the Bandstand, the Girls' Quarters, and the Teacher's Quarters with snow-covered grounds. 

Format:
Lantern Slide
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Female Students Playing Croquet, 1901

Female students in white dresses posed playing croquet on the school grounds next to the bandstand. A white man with a lawnmower stands watching them and other female students are posed in the background, walking and seated.

In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer Frances…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Students Posed on the School Grounds, 1901

Male students posed standing and sitting on the lawn of the school grounds, with female students in the background. 

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-…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Band Stand, Dining Hall, and Teachers' Quarters, 1901

View of the central school campus. 

This image, with the caption BAND STAND, DINING HALL, TEACHERS' QUARTERS, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 12].

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Campus and Student Body, 1901

View looking down on the school grounds where male and female students are assembled in rows. 

This image, with the caption CAMPUS AND STUDENT BODY, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.10].

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Students Playing Croquet, c.1902

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.

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of the Campus Looking Toward the Academic Building, 1902

This image with the caption CAMPUS, OFFICE, AND SCHOOL BUILDINGS appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.11].

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Band and Students Assembled in Central Campus [view 1], c. 1907

The school band and students assembled in formation on the grounds of the central campus with the Dining Hall, Band Stand, and Girls' Quarters in the background. 

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Band and Students Assembled in Central Campus [view 2], c. 1907

The school band and students assembled in formation on the grounds of the central campus with the Dining Hall, Band Stand, and Girls' Quarters in the background. 

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Girls' Sunday School Group with Teacher, c. 1907

Six female students seated around the flag pole on the school grounds, with a woman identified as Blanche Dum, their Sunday school teacher from the Allison Methodist Church. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
black and white image; view of central campus taken from a slight height, most buildings are obscured by trees but you can see the flag pole, a little bit about of the administration building and large boys' quarters

The caption on the front of the postcard reads: CAMPUS, U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

There is also a message hand-written on the front of the card that reads: "Arrived safely am boarding with Rev. Rhods[?] have a nice place. Best wishes Pa'pa".

The postcard was addressed to Miss Ethel M. Haines, Thompsontown,…

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
color image; view of campus looking northeast from the academic building, in the foreground are paint lines for tennis courts, in the middle ground is a fire hydrant, a tree to the left, and a telephone pole to the right, in the background is the gynasium, girls' quarters and large boys' quarters

The caption on the front of the postcard reads: Campus and Tennis Courts, Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.

The postcard was sent to Miss Myra Heiser of Carlisle, Pa. R. F. D. #4. The message written on the front of the card reads "Hello Myra? What are you doing these cold winter days Mary."

 

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
color image; students assembled in formation in the foreground, with the camera facing east viewing the whole length of the campus, the students are in black and white, there are leaves on the trees, the sky is orange near the horizon and blue above that

The caption on this postcard reads: BATTALION SCHOOL, CARLISLE, Pa.

The postcard was addressed to Dr. Zatae L. Straw, 627 Union St., Manchester, N. H.

 

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Central Campus Seen Through Trees, c. 1909

A view of the central campus, obscured by tree branches. This photograph was probably taken from the Academic Building. 

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

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Central Campus Showing Girls' Quarters and Gymnasium, c. 1909

View of the central campus, with the Girls' Quarters and the Gymnasium in the center of the image, clearly illustrating how close to each other they were.  The Large Boys' Quarters is visible behind the Gymnasium. 

Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Central Campus with Flag Pole, c. 1909

View taken from the northern end of the central campus, with the flag pole at left. Most of the buildings are obscured by trees, but the Guard House can be seen in the distance at right. 

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

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society