Large Boys’ Quarters

Group portrait of the first male students at the school in front the boys' dormitory. Some are standing on the balcony of the building, others are seated or standing on the porch or in front of the building. Interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at the far left. 

These students came from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies and arrived…

Group portrait of the first male students at the school in front the boys' dormitory. Some are standing on the balcony of the building, others are seated or standing on the porch or in front of the building. Interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at the far left. 

These students came from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies and arrived…

View of the side of the Large Boys' Quarters, showing the row of trees and path in front of the building. The view was probably taken looking towards the northwest, with the fence in the background marking the boundary of the school campus. 

Male students in school uniforms posed on the balcony, front porch, and in front of a building on the school grounds, presumably the Boys' Quarters. 

One of the Cumberland County Historical Society's copies of this image is captioned "Indian boys in first uniforms Apr. 1880." 

Male students posed in school uniforms on the balcony, front porch, and in front of a building on the school grounds, presumably the Boys' Quarters. 

The caption on this image identifies it as "Indian boys in first uniforms Apr. 1880." The copy of the image at the American Philosophical Society has the handwritten caption "Indian boys (…

Male students posed in front of the building used as the Boys' Quarters, later known as the Large Boys' Quarters. 

This image was taken before the third floor was added. 

View of the Boys' Quarters with students in uniforms posed on the porches and in the yard in front of the building. 

View of the school grounds looking east/northeast, probably taken from the porch of the School Building. On the left is the Teachers' Quarters, with a fence apparently around the area behind the quarters. On the right is the Chapel. The Large Boys' Quarters is visible in the center in the distance. 

View of the Large Boys' Quarters. 

View of the Large Boys' Quarters, with students on the porches and in front of the building, probably taken in the winter. 

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,…

Caption: BEDROOM - LARGE BOYS' QUARTERS.

These rooms, 14 x 16 feet, contain three beds each, a wardrobe with three divisions, one for each occupant, a table, chair, washstand, etc., and are decorated with such pictures and ornaments as the occupants may be able or choose to provide.

This…

Caption: THE LARGE BOYS' QUARTERS.

replace an old barrack building that stood on the same site in the early days of the School, and are 292 x 38 feet.

Congress had not then faith in Indian education, and after several years of disappointment, the boys from their earnings on farms…

Two male students wearing uniforms seated at either side of a table in a student's bedroom. 

Two male students in uniform posed seated at a table reading. They are in the corner of a room with extensive decorations hung on the walls, with a washstand and a trunk on either side of the table. 

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

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 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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View taken at an angle of the Large Boys' Quarters. 

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

View taken from beside the Large Boys' Quarters, showing them on the right, the Gymnasium at left and the Boiler House in the center in the distance. 

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

View taken looking north, with some students in front of the Girls' Quarters, the Large Boys' Quarters and the Athletic Quarters visible in the distance. 

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

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.…

Richard Henry Pratt requests to purchase 11,000 feet of yellow pine flooring and 4,300 feet of hemlock joints amounting to $442 to repair and replace flooring in the school building and the boys' quarters. Pratt adds that student apprentices will be able to do the work.

Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm…

Richard Henry Pratt writes to the Office of Indian Affairs that when the Carlisle Indian School built the large and small boys quarters in 1887 they did not white coat the sides of the building to save money. Over time, Pratt notes, the buildings have settled and the walls are dark in color making the light inadequate on dark days. As a result…

Captain Richard H. Pratt requests to spend $122.84 on the purchase of wire screens to protect windows in the academic building and boys' quarters.