View of the tailor shop showing students working with an instructor.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-086a and BS-CH-047.
Tailor Shop
Caption: THE TAILOR SHOP.
Here the uniforms and outer garments for 450 boys are made annually.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 44. No prints of this image have yet been located.
Because no prints or…
Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Three male students posed with a white male instructor at tables covered with fabric in the tailor shop.
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.…
Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Five male students posed working at tables in the tailor shop.
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…
Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students seated at tables and sewing machines in the Tailor Shop.
The Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress contains a print of this photograph: https://www.loc.gov/item/2018661659/…
Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on this postcard reads: CARPENTER SHOP AND TAILORING DEPT, INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.
The postcard was addressed to Miss Gillie M. Atherton, Greencastle, Pa.
The message reads: "Reach home safe and sound. I am well hoping you are the same. got done about 8 o'clock. Sunday being work hard on Monday…
Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Students Working in the Tailor Shop [view 2], c.1909](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/00314A%2373%20OR%2014B-13-03.jpg?itok=0_AROfH4 "Students Working in the Tailor Shop [view 2], c.1909")
View of the tailor shop showing students working at long tables.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-135 and 14B-13-03) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#73). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the…
Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
![Tailor Shop [view 1], c.1909](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/14B-13-2.jpg?itok=UnEoJrjo "Tailor Shop [view 1], c.1909")
View of the tailor shop showing long work tables. An instructor and students are working at the rear of the room.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image (14B-13-02 and PA-CH3-134). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because both the prints…
Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
May 22, 1906
William A. Mercer requests authority to purchase on the open market a stove with extra grate for the tailor shop.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration