Images

View of students and instructors posed with wheels in front of a brick building with the sign "Blacksmith and Wagon Shop." 

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-068b, PA-CH3-013a, and BS-CH-054. 

View of the exterior of a brick building with the sign "Blacksmith and Wagon Shop," with a wagon and a white man in front and two men in the doorway. 

Studio portrait of an infant posed in a cradleboard. 

This is a photograph of a photograph with the handwritten caption "Kiowa Pappoose." This image may have been taken of page 34 of Album 2 of the "Indian School Albums" now in the collection of the Cumberland County Historical Society (PA-CH2-034b), or it may have been taken before the print was added to the album. 

This photograph was originally taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston, probably at the Hampton Institute in 1899 when Johnston was there taking photographs of the Native American students. The image in the album may be a copy of the Johnston image, included among the images of Carlisle students, or it may be a copy made by Choate of the Johnston image, copied here again by Choate. 

Version 2 of this image, linked to in Related Images, is a print produced by Choate's studio. There is no indication that Choate credited Johnston for the original image. This was one of the photographs offered as a premium beginning in 1890 to subscribers of the school's Indian Helper newspaper, as were other photographs produced by (the others originally taken by) Choate. Those advertisements refer to this image as "pretty faced pappoose in Indian cradle."

Copies of the Johnston image are held by the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98519390/) and the Museum of Modern Art (https://www.moma.org/collection/works/57142). 

Note: The National Anthropological Archives has two different negatives, both images of the same print with the handwritten caption. They are NAA 73477 (NAA INV 06825100) and NAA 73527 (NAA INV  06830100). 

Portrait of nineteen unidentified female students with a white woman, presumably a teacher, posed on the school grounds. 

Portrait of T.J. Morgan, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, posed with Richard Henry Pratt and the school's teachers on the school grounds. 

The school newspapers reported a visited by Morgan to the school in February of 1890. It's possible that this photograph was taken at that time although the weather does not appear very wintry. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-027 and 10-A-06. They identify Commissioner Morgan as being seated in the second row, fifth from the left. 

Portrait of male and female students posed on steps of a building on the school grounds, with a white man standing at left. The caption says that these are "Piegan from Blackfeet Agency, Montana, entered Carlisle in November 1889 and March 1890." 

The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of this image says that the students arrived in November 1889 and gives a date for the image of March 1890.

Portrait of male and female students posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds, with a white man standing at left. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society copy of this image states that they are "Piegan from Blackfeet Agency, Montana, entered Carlisle in November 1889 and March 1890." Previous cataloging for this copy interprets the caption as saying that these students arrived in November 1889 and that the date for this image is March 1890. 

Studio portrait of Susie Metoxen wearing school uniform.

Note: Handwritten caption along side of image: "Susie Metoxen, Mar. 1888." 

A student, wearing a hat and holding an axe or hatchet, standing in the courtyard of the workshops. 

The written caption says: "Andrew Brohme, an Apache Indian, 21 years old, learning to be a carpenter at the Indian School at Carlisle, Penn. June 10, 1890." 

It seems almost certain that this is student Matthew Broom, a member of the Apache Nation, who was at the school at this time and who would have been the right age, and whose student file says he was training in carpentry. 

Studio portrait of Lucy Cloud and Aggie Cloud. 

Lucy and Aggie were sisters. Lucy was the older sister and is probably seated on the left. 

A handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: Lucy and Aggie Cloud, Dec. 1890.

Studio portrait of Nellie Carey. 

Note: Descriptive information supplied by NAA indicates the date of this image as December, 1890. This may be contained on a caption that's not visible on the image.

Studio portrait of five male students (all wearing school uniforms) and five female students. Previous cataloging interprets the caption as identifying the students as Pawnee, and naming three of them as Rose Howell, Phoebe Howell, and Ann Townsend. Rose and Phoebe were both Pawnee students. There is no student named Ann Townsend so this may actually be Sam Townsend, referring to Pawnee student Samuel Townsend. 

Studio portrait of Joseph Evans and Peter Oscar. One is wearing a school uniform.

Studio portrait of one female and ten male students, the graduating class of 1891. 

They are, back row, left to right: Robert Matthews (seated), Martin Archiquette, John Tyler, William Froman, Charles E. Dagenett; middle row, seated, left to right: Henry Standing Bear, Etta Robertson, Levi St. Cyr, Harry Kohpay; front row, seated, Josiah Powlas and Yamie Leeds.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 18.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-024 and 15-22-01.

Studio portrait of Allen Yuzos.

Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock wearing school uniform and holding a hat. 

Studio portrait of Joseph Cobell wearing school uniform. 

Studio portrait of George Baker.

Studio portrait of Charles Buck (left) and Anthony Austin (right).

Studio portrait of Minnie Perrine.

Studio portrait of Jane Mark.

Studio portrait of Anni Medicine wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Melinda Metoxen. 

Studio portrait of Jennie Mitchell (at left) and Nellie Carey (at right). 

Studio portrait of James Phemister wearing school uniform.