Images

Group portrait of thirty-seven women, presumably all female students, wearing large hats, posed on the school grounds in front of the flag pole.

This portrait may have taken as they were gathered to return home (a "home party"). 

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. 

The caption on the front of the postcard reads: ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE PA

The only words on the back are standard instructions for placement of the address.

Several younger male students wearing uniforms posed reading newspapers at a table with many piles of newspapers--the Reading Room in the Small Boys' Quarters. 

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

View of a snowy campus with a man near the flag pole on a path cleared from the Girls' Quarters to the pole. The Girls' Quarters is in the background. 

The image is somewhat damaged. 

A large group of female students posed on the steps of a school building with one older white woman. Some students in the front row hold a banner that says "YWCA."

A large group of female students posed on the steps of a school building with one older white woman. Some students in the front row hold a banner that says "YWCA."\

The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a print of this image (13-15-01).

Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread. 

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

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

View of a corner in a girl's room, with a large window flanked with a bookcase and a bureau. 

The caption on the front reads: CAMPUS IN WINTER, U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE PA.

The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write the address.

Male students in uniform, including what appears to be a small group of the school band at left, posed at the edge of the school grounds in front of a fence. The handwritten caption states "showing farm buildings in the distance." 

There is no caption on the front of the postcard nor is there anything written on the back. (The back has remnants of glue though.)

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"

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. 

Studio photograph of an unidentified male student. 

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

Younger male and female students posed sitting at desks in what a label identifies as a "Normal Room." 

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. 

View taken from the center of campus showing the Girls' Quarters and the Bandstand, with female students on the grounds. 

View of the central campus with the Bandstand, the Girls' Quarters, and the Teacher's Quarters with snow-covered grounds. 

Interior of school dining room with tables set for a meal. Female student workers are standing at the ends of the tables around the perimeter of the room. 

Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread.