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The headline reads: Many Indians in the City; Adopt White Man's Ways

The first caption reads: Frank A. Kennedy, Seneca, Who Has Become an Automobile Expert.

The second caption reads: Ezra L. Jacobs of Brooklyn, A Seneca Indian and Descendant of Chief Cornplanter, Who Has Served in the Regular Army and Seen Phillippine Service.

Studio portrait of Johnson Owl.

Studio portrait of Mr. Terrance with two male students and seven female students. The caption identifies Terrance and that the students were from the Mohawk nation. 

There is a Mr. Terrance mentioned in the student newspapers as being from the Mohawk nation and having three children of his own at the school. 

Studio portrait of Hattie Acklin. 

Studio portrait of Mary Pradt and Zenobia Garcia.

Studio portrait of Maud Snyder.

Studio portrait of Julio Fernandez wearing school uniform. 

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. 

Studio portrait of Charles Bent. 

Studio portrait of Anna Buck and Cooki Glook. 

Studio portrait of Raleigh Jackson (left) and Elijah Wheelock (right), both wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Charlotte (here Lottie) Harris.

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. 

Studio portrait of Laura Ammon.

Studio portrait of James Browndog. A handwritten caption written along the side of the image probably reads: James Brown Dog.

Studio portrait of Mabel Greely. 

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Laundry.

This photo may have been taken in advance of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. Joel Bernice Ettinger, director of the band, is standing in the center holding the baton. James Riley Wheelock, future band director, is seated just to his right.

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

Studio portrait of the graduating class of 1901. 

The students are identified with white numbers corresponding to the typed label below the photograph. They are:1. Peters, Nellie,  2. Palmer, Jessie,  3. Johnson, Mark,  4. Johnson, Dollie,  5. Baine, John,  6. Powlas, Alice,  7. Beaver, Frank,  8. Brown, Samuel J.,  9.  Goyituey, Anna,  10. Coates, Henrietta,  11. Wasson, Jennie, 12. Ferris, George,  13. Gansworth, Alberta,  14. Gansworth, Willard,  15. Mishler, Stella,  16. Tibbetts, Luzena,  17. Johnson, James, E.,  18. LaChapelle, Joseph,  19. Parnell, Anna,  20. McIntosh, Donald,  21. Moore, Edwin,  22. Nash, Augusta,  23. Parker, Mattie,  24. Niles, Herman,  25. Palmer, Simon,  26. LaChapelle, Pearl,  27. Powlas, John,  28. Pratt, Arthur,  29. Rickard, Edgar,  30. Denny, Elnora,  31. Moore, Edwin,  32. Spieche, Alonza,  33. Swallow, Ida,  34. Tapia, Antonio,  35. Temple, Wingate,  36. Warren, Eugene,  37. Willing, Edward G.,  38 Sturm, Ella, 39.  Moses, Myron

Note: Edwin Smith, a member of this graduating class, is not included in the photo.

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. 

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. 

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.

Johnston took two very similar photographs of this classroom. The other version can be seen in Related Images.

This image with the caption Y. M. C. A. appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 55].

Male and female students posed in a classroom with a white female teacher. On the blackboard at the rear of the room at left is a drawing of a teepee and at right is another drawing. Hanging against the blackboard are Native American textiles, possibly clothing. Native American baskets or pots are sitting on the desks of the students in the front row. The students are reading from small books, and may be studying the poem "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 

Johnston took three similar photographs of this classroom. One other version can be seen in Related Images. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging of the other image identifies this as a "Ninth Grade Class School Room." The third version has slight differences from this one and is also held by the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2008675528/.  

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 image can be downloaded from the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/item/98503023/

Male students posed standing and kneeling weeding a field with a white man seated looking 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 WEEDING DETAIL appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 92].

Five male students posed working with saws and hammers on the top of a stone wall with a white man looking 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 COPING STONE FENCES appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 33].

Two female students standing at a laundry bucket and male students posed at tables in the laundry room. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging specifies they are starching clothes. 

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.

The Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress also contains a print of this photograph. A copy of that print is available for download from the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/item/98503026/.