Guard House

The guard house with a figure standing in the central doorway. 

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.     Hospital and Disiplinarian's Quarters      Rosa W. Thunder as she arrived          Rosa White Thunder (…

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 guard house with three figures, probably two men and one boy, standing in front. One man is leaning on what appears to be a tree stump. Poles for electrical wires are visible behind the building. 

Previous cataloging assigns a date of 1897 to this image but it is not clear what this is based on.

This image appears in John N.…

Caption: THE GUARD HOUSE.

At the entrance gate stands the old Guard House, which is one of the historic buildings of Pennsylvania. It was built by the Hessian soldiers whom Washington captured at the battle of Trenton, in 1776, and sent to this place as prisoners of war. The School follows a system of military…

View of the Guard House with two men in uniform standing on the porch. 

View of the Guard House with two men in uniform standing on the porch. 

A view looking south, down Garrison Lane towards the Guard House. 

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 and took at least…

The caption reads: Guard House at Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. (build by the Hessians 1777).

View of the Guard House. 

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

View looking south with the Academic Building on the right, the Guard House on the left and the Doctor's House visible in background in the gap between. 

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

View taken looking south, showing the corner of the Teachers' Quarters, with the Academic Building and the Guard House in the distance. Several groups of people are standing on the sidewalks on the grounds. 

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

View of the Guard House with perimeter fence and entrance gates in background.

The captions read: BUILDINGS, THE DINING HALL, THE LEUPP STUDIO, GIRLS' QUARTERS, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, THE GUARD HOUSE, LARGE BOYS' QUARTERS

The image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1911): 122.…

Supervisor of Construction John Charles provides a report on the heating system and buildings at the Carlisle Indian School. He writes about completing the heating and vacuum system, the newly renovated guardhouse, building a workshop for the engineer, building new bathrooms for the dormitories, installing manholes for the sewer system, and he…

This document contains correspondence regarding an anonymous letter that was sent complaining of the conditions at the guardhouse, the hospital, and the school farm. The complaint discusses the treatment of Wesley Two Moons, who later dies at the school.