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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Six male students posed in the carpenter shop.
This image, with the caption SAWING AND PLANING, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.31].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Six male and one female student posed as if working in the school's mailing department.
This image, with the caption MAIL DEPARTMENT, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.27].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of the central school campus.
This image, with the caption BAND STAND, DINING HALL, TEACHERS' QUARTERS, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 12].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
This image with the caption CAMPUS, OFFICE, AND SCHOOL BUILDINGS appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.11].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View looking down on the school grounds where male and female students are assembled in rows.
This image, with the caption CAMPUS AND STUDENT BODY, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.10].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: COLONEL PRATT.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 7].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Joseph Poodry
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
A formal portrait of the graduating class of 1902, apparently with separate images of students not present when it was taken inserted later.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) with the caption : GRADUATING CLASS, 1902.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Large group of male students in athletic clothing, posed on the grounds in front of a fence.
This image, with the caption TRACK TEAM, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.97].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Male students posed in the gymnasium.
This image, with the caption BOYS' WAND DRILL, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.63]
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: CORNER IN DISPENSARY.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: NORMAL ROOM.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: FOURTH GRADE, DRAWING LESSON.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: FIFTH GRADE, ADVANCED.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: SEVENTH GRADE.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: EIGHTH GRADE.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: NINTH GRADE, JUNIOR CLASS.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Seven male students posed with a white female teacher in the Sloyd classroom.
This image, with the caption SLOYD CLASS, ADVANCED, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.84].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: INDIVIDUAL LESSON IN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Students and visitors in groups on the school grounds.
This image, with the caption ARBOR DAY EXERCISES, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 89].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Male and female students posed in semi-circle watching a tree being planted, presumably as part of the Arbor Day observances.
This image, with the caption TREE PLANTING, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.90].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
A male student posed in a field with a plow drawn by two horses.
This image, with the caption FARM SCENE, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.94].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Three male students sitting on the shore of a pond, possibly fishing. There is a wooden rail fence in the left foreground and trees around the pond.
This image, with the caption SPRING AT FARM, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902). [p.95]
The Cumberland County Historical Society has a copy of this photograph: 12-09-01.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Calistro Antonio Lugo wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: Band Stand and Girls Quarters, Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.
The handwritten note on the front reads: Juliette Smith Carlisle Pa
The postcard is addressed to Marba Marlin in Roxbourgh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections