Dining Hall

Posed portrait of eight female students, presumably kitchen staff, and one staff member in the dining room with set tables.

Note: Three of these students are identified as Eva Pickard, Anna Laura, and Anna Raven.

View of the dining room decorated for Christmas with female student workers posed near the tables. 

The caption identifies it as "Christmas Dinner, Indian School, Carlisle, Pa." 

View of the dining hall, set up for a meal, with eight female student workers posed at the ends of the tables and an older white woman seated at a table in the center. 

View of the dining hall, set up for a meal, with eight female student workers posed at the ends of the tables and an older white woman seated at a table in the center. 

View of the Dining Hall building. The caption identifies it as the "New Dining Hall." This building was built to replace the original building used as the dining hall when the school opened in 1879. 

View of the dining hall at the school, all tables filled by students. Male and female students are seated on opposite sides of the tables. There are a few adult white people standing at right. 

Students lined up along the road in front of the dining hall, as if in a parade. There are three wagons with horses, students in uniform, including some with instruments. There are two people leading the group, one in full feather headdress. 

The handwritten note reads: CHOATE

The reverse side reads: Old Guard House    Capt. R. H. Pratt Supt.    Old Chapel.     Supt. Quarters.      Ass't Supt. Quarters     Small Boys' Quarters.  …

A composite of 16 photographs of the school. The captions read: Small Boys’ Quarters, Ass’t. Supt’s. Quarters, Superintendent’s Quarters, Chapel, Guard House, Hospital, Disciplinarian’s Quarters, Band Stand, After School, School Building, Large Boys’ Quarters, Christmas Dinner, School Room, Office & Teachers’ Quarters, Gymnasium,…

The handwritten label on the slide reads: The Dining Hall

Caption: DINING ROOM AND GIRLS' INDUSTRIAL HALL.

This building, 125 x 50 feet, with a rear projection 80 x 36 feet, was erected in 1884, mainly by student labor under the direction of the school mechanics. On the lower floor is the dining room 124 x 49 x 16 feet, lighted with two arc lights, the kitchen and…

Caption: DINING HALL - INTERIOR.

This room will seat 700 persons.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 25.  No prints of this image have yet been located. 

Because no prints or negatives of this…

The handwritten label on the slide reads: The Kitchen Before Dinner

Caption: THE SCHOOL KITCHEN.

is fitted up with large ranges and steam cooking apparatus.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 26.  No prints of this image have yet been located. 

Because no prints…

Interior of school dining room with tables set for a meal. Female student workers are standing at the ends of the tables around the perimeter of the room. 

Female students posed slicing bread as they prepare tables for service in the dining hall. 

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…

Male and female students seated at tables in the dining hall. 

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…

Students posed preparing food in the kitchen. 

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 of that year…

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].

A panorama photo (10" x 50") of the Carlisle Indian School campus, facing east.

The caption reads: U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE, PENNA.

View of the Dining Hall with female students on the front porch. 

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

View taken looking down Pratt Avenue from the Central Campus, with the Dining Hall at left, the Laundry Building at right, and the Leupp Art Studio in the distance in the center. 

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

The caption on the front of the card reads: Marching into Dining Room, Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.

The postcard was addressed to Miss Marion Peters, Middletown, Pa.

The message reads: "Dear Cousin Marion, I'm sorry I didn't see you while I was at Grandpas. But I hope I will next summer. We have been enjoying the…

This postcard's caption reads: DINING HALL INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE, PA.

Although this postcard was never sent, someone wrote "Oct. 14, 1909" on the back.

There is no caption on the front of this postcard, and the back is completely blank. The right end gives the appearance of possibly having been folded and torn along a crease, perhaps having been half of a larger panoramic image.