Students Studying Anatomy, 1901

Male and female students posed seated and standing in classroom with diagrams of the human body in the front of the room. 

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 one hundred photographs. Johnston donated her personal papers, including 103 prints of the photographs taken at Carlisle, to the Library of Congress.  

A copy of this print is available for download from the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/item/2003665480/.  

This image appears with the caption FIFTH GRADE, ADVANCED in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 76].

Time Period
Campus Spaces
Location
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection LC-USZ62-72449
Photographer
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Washington, DC