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 Howard E. Gansworth. This photo was scanned from a program for a dinner held by the Carlisle Indian School Alumni Association held on April 2, 1908. It is not clear when this photo was taken.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Julio Fernandez wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Browndog. A handwritten caption written along the side of the image probably reads: James Brown Dog.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio potrait of Johnson Owl.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Raleigh Jackson (left) and Elijah Wheelock (right), both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna Buck and Cooki Glook.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A large group of male and female students posed on the school grounds.
This image, with the caption PORTO RICAN GROUP, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 99].
This image is a later print made by the Cumberland County Historical Society from an unidentified source.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of school's Gymnasium building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the school's Gymnasium.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two female students.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Studio portrait of August Kensler, who served as quartermaster and storekeeper at the school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Browndog around 1901.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Portrait of seventeen unidentified male students and eleven unidentified female students with two white men and one white women posed outside on the school grounds.
Previous cataloging describes the caption as saying that these are students from New York and the date is 1901.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of the graduating class of 1901.
The students are identified with white numbers corresponding to the typed label below the photograph.
Note: Edwin Smith, a member of this graduating class, is not included in the photo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
School band leading male students marching down Pennsylvania Avenue, with the U. S. Capital in the background, with the caption that this is the inauguration of President McKinley.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Male student posed shoeing a horse, with white male instructor holding the horse. Two male students are in the background with blacksmithing tools.
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. When the school closed in 1918, two albums of Johnston's photographs were sent to the Pennsylvania State Museum, which transferred them to the Cumberland County Historical Society in 1934. This is one of the images from those albums.
This image with the caption BLACKSMITH SHOP – HORSESHOEING appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 46].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male and female students posed, seated and holding sheets of music, with a white female teacher standing in front, in a class room.
Johnston took two very similar photographs of this classroom. The other version can be seen in Related Images. A note on the reverse of this similar image identifies the teacher as Miss Senseney.
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/2003656208/.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Male and female students seated at tables in the dining hall.
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/2003665473/.
This image appears with the caption STUDENTS IN DINING HALL in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 21].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
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].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Female students posed ironing and working in the laundry room, with a white female teacher.
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/2006675680/
This image appears with the caption CORNER IN LAUNDRY in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 50].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Male and female students posed in a classroom with information about American government written on the blackboard. A male student is standing at the back of the room and a white female teacher is standing in the front.
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/resource/cph.3b03310/.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Male students posed in a field, kneeling on the ground planting onions. An instructor is overseeing their work, pointing.
Johnston took two very similar photographs of this scene. The other version can be seen in Related Images.
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/2004676454/.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Two male students posed shoveling coal in the Boiler House while a white man looks on.
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. When the school closed in 1918, two albums of Johnston's photographs were sent to the Pennsylvania State Museum, which transferred them to the Cumberland County Historical Society in 1934. This is one of the images from those albums.
This image with the caption BOILER HOUSE appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 16].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Four male students posed standing at work tables.
The Cumberland County Historical Society identifies this as the Boiler Shop where "students are taught cutting and threading pipes."
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. When the school closed in 1918, two albums of Johnston's photographs were sent to the Pennsylvania State Museum, which transferred them to the Cumberland County Historical Society in 1934. This is one of the images from those albums.
This image with the caption STEAMFITTING appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 47].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students seated as audience facing a male student addressing the group from a podium. A white female teacher and four male students are seated behind the speaker.
Johnston took two very similar photographs of this classroom. The other version can be seen in Related Images.
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/2004676455/
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division