Images

Portrait of male and female Native Americans posed on the steps of a building. The caption says that they are "Apaches from Fort Marion, Florida, as they arrived April 30, 1887." 

The Cumberland County Historicial Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-052 and 12-18-01.

Group of Chiricahua Apache as they arrived from Fort Marion in Florida on April 30, 1887.

Studio portrait of Preston Three Bears (at left) and Nicholas Ruleau (at right).

Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date May 1887.

Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt with a group of white adults and students posed on the porch of a building on the school grounds. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's version of this image identifies the other white man as Inspector Morris A. Thomas and one of the white women as Mrs. Osgood (Sarah E. Osgood). The school newspaper for May 1887 reports separate visits from both Thomas and Osgood. 

Version #1 of this image has two small white children (a boy and a girl) in the front right in front of the male students in school uniforms. These two children are not in this version. 

Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt with a group of white adults and students posed on the porch of a building on the school grounds. 

This print of this image identifies the other white man as Inspector Morris A. Thomas and one of the white women as Mrs. Osgood (Sarah E. Osgood). The school newspaper for May 1887 reports separate visits from both Thomas and Osgood. 

Pose 1 of this image has two small white children (a boy and a girl) in the front right in front of the male students in school uniforms. These two children are not in this version. 

Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt with a group of white adults and students posed on the porch of a building on the school grounds. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's version of this image identifies the other white man as Inspector Morris A. Thomas and one of the white women as Mrs. Osgood (Sarah E. Osgood). The school newspaper for May 1887 reports separate visits from both Thomas and Osgood. 

This image has two small white children (a boy and a girl) in the front right in front of the male students in school uniforms. These two children are not in other versions of this image. 

Studio portrait of Phillip White (Phillips Bob Tail) in school uniform. 

Studio portrait of Rudolph Esenday and Knox Nostlin, both wearing school uniforms.

Note: Earlier cataloging indicates a date of June 1887 is part of the caption written on this image.

Studio portrait of Paul Black Bear wearing non-native clothing, dated July 11, 1887. 

The caption reads: #596 Paul Black Bear 7 11/87

Studio portrait of nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (front row, left to right): Etta Robertson, Rose Howell, Jessie Spread Hands, Jennie Mitchell, and Elizabeth Wind; (back row, left to right): Nellie Carey, Phoebe Howell, Annie Thomas, and Lillie Wind.

The caption for this image gives a date of 8/1887 and identifies them as students of Dr. Norcoss.

Studio portrait of nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (front row, left to right): Etta Robertson, Rose Howell, Jessie Spread Hands, Jennie Mitchell, and Elizabeth Wind; (back row, left to right): Nellie Carey, Phobebe Howell, Annie Thomas, and Lillie Wind.

The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of this image provides a date of 8/1887 and identifies them as students of Dr. Norcross. 

Note: Dr. George Norcross was the pastor at Carlisle Second Presbyterian Church from December 1868 to January 1909.

Studio portrait of Reuben Wolf. 

Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date August 1887.

Studio portrait of Charles Smith (Charles Red Hawk) with two unidentified young men in native dress. 

Note: Previous cataloging indicates a date of August 1887 in the handwritten caption. Smith arrived on August 12, 1887 so this image may have been taken shortly after his arrival.

A parade down Market Street in Philadelphia, with Indian chiefs on horseback in the middle and a group of Carlisle students in the distance, with crowds and buildings on both sides of the street. The photograph was probably taken on September 15, 1887 when the band and students marched in a parade in Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the adoption of the Constitution. Press reaction to the school's representation in the parade is quoted in The Indian Helper Vol. 3, No. 7, September 23, 1887.

A parade down Market Street in Philadelphia, with the school band leading a group of Carlisle students on floats in the distance, with crowds and buildings on both sides of the street. The photograph was probably taken on September 15, 1887 when the band and students marched in a parade in Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the adoption of the Constitution. Press reaction to the school's representation in the parade is quoted in The Indian Helper Vol. 3, No. 7, September 23, 1887.

School band and formation of students marching in a parade down Market Street in Philadelphia, showing crowds and buildings on both sides of the street. The photograph was probably taken on September 15, 1887 when the band and students marched in a parade in Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the adoption of the Constitution. Press reaction to the school's representation in the parade is quoted in The Indian Helper Vol. 3, No. 7, September 23, 1887.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has another very similar image (10-B-28). 

The caption reads: THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION – THE CARLISLE INDIANS PASSING UNDER THE MAIN ARCH – INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION. DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.

This hand-colored engraving is from a Supplement to Harper’s Weekly vol. 31, no. 1605 (September 24, 1887): pgs. 698.

The caption reads: THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION – THE CARLISLE INDIANS PASSING UNDER THE MAIN ARCH – INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION. DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.

This engraving is from a Supplement to Harper’s Weekly  vol. 31, no. 1605 (September 24, 1887): pgs. 698.

The caption reads: THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION – THE CARLISLE INDIANS PASSING UNDER THE MAIN ARCH – INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION. DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.

This hand-colored engraving is from a Supplement to Harper’s Weekly  vol. 31, no. 1605 (September 24, 1887): pgs. 698.

The caption reads: THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION – THE CARLISLE INDIANS PASSING UNDER THE MAIN ARCH – INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION. DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.

This hand-colored engraving is from a Supplement to Harper’s Weekly  vol. 31, no. 1605 (September 24, 1887): pgs. 698.

Studio portrait of six male students and five female students. 

Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Pawnee nation and provides a date of October 1887 for the image. 

The AHEC print of this image has the sitters identified (see Related Images).

Studio portrait of Felix Iron Eagle Feather wearing school uniform. 

Note: The handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads in part "10 / 1887" . 

Studio portrait of Harvey Warner (standing at left) and William Brown (seated at right). 

Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date November 1887.

Studio portrait of Phillip White (Phillips Bob Tail). 

Studio portrait of Katie Metoxen [?]. 

Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date November 1887.