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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A view of the central campus with female students in the background and a young male student in the foreground. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's description states the label on this image is "Girls at Play." 

Format: Lantern Slide

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

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

Format: Lantern Slide

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

Male students posed working at machines and standing at tables in the shoe shop. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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 family member has identified Pelagie Nash near the back just to the left of the right-side column, with the furthest back student standing behind her with her hand on her right shoulder.

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

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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 family member has identified Pelagie Nash near the back just to the left of the right-side column, with the furthest back student standing behind her with her hand on her right shoulder.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of male and female students with a white woman posed on the school grounds.

In the front row of standing students, the third person from the left has been identified as Edwin Smith, and James E. Johnson is believed to be in the back right corner.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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.

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

Format: Lantern Slide

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

Format: Lantern Slide

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

Studio portrait of the  football team. In the version of this image in publications, the players are identified: (L to R): Isaac Seneca (Seneca), William G. Thompson (Coach), Thaddeus Redwater (Cheyenne), Martin Wheelock (Oneida), Frank Scott (Seneca), Glenn Scoby "Pop" Warner (Coach), Jonas Metoxen (Oneida), James E. Johnson (Stockbridge), Artie Miller (Stockbrige), Joseph Scholder (Mission), Bemus Pierce (Seneca), Caleb M. Sickles (Oneida), Edwin Smith (Kallam), Frank Hudson (Pueblo), Edward Lowell Rogers (Chippewa). 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

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

View looking north of what is presumably the entire student body assembled in neat rows on the central campus. Groups of spectators, probably teachers and staff, are standing or sitting around the nearby buildings. 

This glass negative appears with a collection of other negatives attributed to photographer M. J. Hoover, but he most likely either made a fresh copy from the original negative, or else he simply acquired the original negative and incorporated into his own collection since the image definitely dates from a time before he was operating as a photographer in the town of Carlisle.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society