Images

The Images section features photographs, postcards, and different types of artwork, as well as reproductions of images that appeared in newspapers, magazines, and other publications. These images all reflect the Carlisle Indian School students, facilities, and staff. Images available here are drawn from files housed at the U. S. National Archives, from collections of Carlisle Indian School materials housed at various archival repositories, and from a variety of published sources. Visitors to this website are also invited to share copies of photographs from their own personal and family collections; please contact us if you have images you would like to contribute.

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Studio portrait of George Ladeaux.

Note: Previous cataloging indicated the student's name in the hand written caption is George Laden.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF 1900.

This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

A large group of male students, most not in uniforms, posed, with one white man in the center of the bottom row, standing and sitting in front of one of the school buildings. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as members of the YMCA.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

School laundry building with a trolley car parked alongside it. Four trolley conductors are standing beside the car. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Group portrait of seventeen male students in uniform posed with one white man. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A large group of male students, most not in uniforms, posed, with one white man in the center of the bottom row, standing and sitting in front of one of the school buildings. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as members of the YMCA.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student wearing a white dress. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Richard Henry Pratt posed seated at his desk holding a document. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of five female students and two male students (in uniform) posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging for this image identifies them as "teachers," so they may be student teachers. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A class room with smaller male and female students, some standing and writing on the blackboard. A white female teacher sits at a desk in the front. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of five male students and four female students posed on the steps of the court house (now known as the Old Court House) with one white man and one white woman, presumably teachers. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Four female teachers seated on the grass on the school grounds. One is holding open some sheet music. They are identified on the reverse of the photo as Anne H. Stewart, Jessie L. McIntire, Annie B. Moore and Jeannette Senseney. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the school grounds showing the teachers' quarters and the band stand. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A large group of male and female students, some in uniform, posed with at least two white women, presumably teachers, on the steps of a school building. One male student is inside the building looking out a window. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing glasses.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Anna Mason Pratt, Richard Henry Pratt's wife. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio photograph of an unidentified male student. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption on this postcard reads: Carlisle, Pa., Bakery and Bakers, Indian School.

This postcard was sent to Mr. John P. Miller, Burnham, Pa. Mifflin Co. The message reads: "Dear Son, I am still looking for that letter now write to me at once as I am anxious to hear from you. Mother"

 

Format: Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

This postcard has the caption Taps Indian School Carlisle, Pa.

Although this postcard was never sent, there is a message written on the back: "To Donald from Catharine. We had an indian boy take us all through the Indian school."

 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Photograph of a photograph of former student Stephen Reuben in a feathered headess with a horse. The photograph is lableled: "Stephen Reuben, Carlisle Student, 4th of July Celebration, Spalding Idaho." 

Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of a corner of a room of a female student. A table or desk is covered with many framed photographs. There is a framed photograph of the school band hanging above the desk and there's another photograph, probably also of Carlisle students, sitting on a chair. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the rear of the Industrial Workshop Building, with a few male students in the foreground. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Male students posed working at tables in the wagonmaking shop. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society