Class Rooms

View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom. 

View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a female teacher in the front of the room. One male student is standing at the blackboard next to a drawing of a horse. 

Previous cataloging indicates the caption written on this image identifies this as Miss Booth's classroom. School records indicate Vicentine Booth…

View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a female teacher in the front of the room. One male student is standing at the blackboard next to a drawing of a horse. 

Previous cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image indicates the caption written on this image identifies this as…

View of a students wearing uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a white female teacher and some students near the board at the front of the room. 

The caption identifies this as Miss Cutter's classroom. School records show Emma Cutter taught at the school from 1881 to 1896. 

View of students in uniforms seated at rows of desks in a school room with a white female teacher. Some students are standing in front by the chalk boards. 

The caption identifies this as Miss Fisher's class room. School records indicate Elspeth (or Effie) Fisher taught at the school from 1881 to 1892. 

View of young male and female students wearing uniforms seated at desks in a schoolroom. There is a row of male students standing at the rear in front of a chalk board. The students have their faces turned to the photographer.  

Caption: A MUSIC ROOM.

Very early in the School experience it was found that there were good voices among the pupils and ability to acquire both vocal and instrumental knowledge. Music proves a pleasing study to the Indian youth, and is useful and entertaining to the School.

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Caption: A SCHOOL ROOM INTERIOR.

This picture gives a partial view of school room No. 12, occupied by the Senior Class. The school rooms are 28 x 30 x 13 feet, well lighted and ventilated, fitted with single desks and slate blackboards, and aggregate accommodations for 700 pupils.

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Caption: THE ART CLASS.

A large number of the pupils show decided ability in drawing from models and nature, and working with clay. For the school year beginning September 1st, 1895, a course in Sloyd for the younger pupils will be added to this department.

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The handwritten label on the slide reads: Art Class at Work. Printed on the label is the manufacturer of the slide C. T. Milligan, 728 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 12. No…

The handwritten label on the slide reads: School Room. 1896.

An empty schoolroom with a teacher's desk and students desks. This is identified in a label as a "Normal School Room." 

A class room with smaller male and female students, some standing and writing on the blackboard. A white female teacher sits at a desk in the front. 

Younger male and female students posed sitting at desks in what a label identifies as a "Normal Room." 

Female students posed with white female teacher in cooking class with "Breakfast Lesson" written on the blackboard. 

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-…

Female students posed with white female teacher in a cooking class. 

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.…

Students posed in a classroom with a white female teacher. Two female and two male students are writing on the blackboard at the back of the room. Each has a name written in front of them. They are, left to right, Theresa Brown, Olaf Gray, John Deloria, and Lena George. 

Cataloging by the Cumberland County Historical Society…

Male and female students posed with white female choir director and accompanist at right.

Johnston took two very similar photographs of the choir. The other one is linked in Related Images.

In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston to document the school at Carlisle for an…

Male and female students posed holding sheets of music with white female choir director and accompanist at right. 

Johnston took two very similar photographs of the choir. The other one is linked in Related Images.

This image with the caption CHOIR appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle,…

Male and female students posed in a classroom with a white female teacher. 

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…

Small male and female students posed in a classroom with a teacher, two of them examining plants. 

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…

Male students seated as audience facing a male student addressing the group from a podium. A white female teacher and four male students are seated behind the speaker. 

Johnston took two very similar photographs of this classroom. The other…

Male and female students posed in a classroom with information about American government written on the blackboard. A male student is standing at the back of the room and a white female teacher is standing in the front. 

In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with…

Male and female students posed in a classroom with a white female teacher. On the blackboard at the rear of the room at left is a drawing of a teepee and at right is information on "Hiawatha's Childhood." Hanging against the blackboard are Native American textiles, possibly clothing. Native American baskets or pots are sitting on the desks of…

Male and female students posed in a classroom with a white female teacher. On the blackboard at the rear of the room at left is a drawing of a teepee and at right is another drawing. Hanging against the blackboard are Native American textiles, possibly clothing. Native American baskets or pots are sitting on the desks of the students in the…