Central Campus

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.

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. 

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 taken by…

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…

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…

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…

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." 

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

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…

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-…

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].

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].

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

The handwritten note reads: Juliette Smith Carlisle Pa

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

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].

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. 

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. 

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. 

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 had left…

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. …

View of the central campus, looking toward the side of the Girls' Quarters, the Gymnasium with the attached low building for the bowling alley, the Large Boys' Quarters and the Athletic Quarters. In the grass, nets have been set up and male students are holding rackets. 

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A view of the central campus, taken from the western end of the lawn, looking east. The Small Boys' Quarters can be seen at left and a figure is pushing a lawn mower in the center of the image. 

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

A panoramic photo postcard of the school grounds, taken from the central campus looking north. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this postcard. The front and reverse images posted here are from different cards. 

Rows of male students in uniform and female students in white dresses assembled around the flag pole, where the American flag is either being raised or lowered. The school band is present at right. 

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