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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Caption: THE SUSAN LONGSTRETH LITERARY SOCIETY.
This society, bearing the name of one of the first and most honored friends of the School, has existed for more than ten years. Including, as it does, the best character and talent from some 300 girls, with a comfortable and tastefully decorated room for its meetings, it is an influence for good, mentally and morally, which cannot well be measured. All the societies emulate each other in furnishing the School most pleasing entertainments.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 57. No prints of this image have yet been located.
Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably taken by student photographer John Leslie.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Portrait of six unidentified male students posed outside on the school grounds.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Caption: VIEW OF THE CAMPUS.
One feature of the School is the beauty of the grounds and their special adaptability to the purposes of a school. During the recreation periods the students spend many happy hours on the campus in playing croquet, tennis, ball and other games, or in quietly promenading, reading and chatting.
The photograph was taken looking south. Moving from left to right the buildings visible are: the Superintendent's Quarters, the Administration Building, the Guard House, the Academic Building, and the back of the Girls' Quarters. Male students are visible in the foreground where a tennis court is laid out, and females students can be seen in the background.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 6.
A print of this image credited to photographer John H. Andrews is in Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections. However, it is possible that the image was originally taken by student photographer John Leslie, who is credited with many of the images in the pamphlet.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Frank Campeau and Matthew Johnson (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Collage of six photographs.
Caption: INDIAN GIRLS AS PROFESSIONAL NURSES.
This picture represents former Carlisle pupils who, having received preliminary training in the School hospital, and having completed heir training in Philadelphia, New Haven and Hartford nurse schools, are now profitably employed in independent practice in the cities named. In this direction our Indian girls have been especially successful.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 64.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Eva Rogers, Rosalie Doctor, and Jeanette Rice.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Caption: ENTRANCE AVENUE.
The School adjoins the borough of Carlisle on the northeast, and is reached by a public road leading into this avenue on the School grounds.
The photograph was taken looking north, showing the Adminstration Building behind the trees and the Girl's Quarters in the distance behind the Band Stand.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 5. No prints of this image have yet been located.
Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably taken by student photographer John Leslie.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Ernest Roe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Susie Baker and Mamie Ryan, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Dahnola Jassan and John Jassan, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Jassan wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benedict Jozhe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Goliath Bigjim.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Isaac Seneca.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Reuben Jones.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Red Kettle wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lambert Istone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Bent.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Red Kettle and George Bacon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Kawi.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten label on the slide reads: The Dining Hall
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Portrait of a large group of male students with one white man in the center of the group posed in front of a school building. The caption identifies them as the Invincible Debating Society.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 56. It is captioned there: THE INVINCIBLE SOCIETY.
This society is an offshoot of the Standard and airly equals the parent society in equals the parent society in all departments of literary work, and is distinguished as the musical society.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Harold Parker, Laura Parker, and Juanada Parker.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of male students in uniforms with instruments posed on a stage. They are identified by the caption as being the Indian School Band in 1895. The band leader at this time was Dennison Wheelock (standing in center), an Indian School graduate.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of eleven male students, three Native American men, and one white man. The caption identifies them as from the Osage nation.
A researcher gave the Cumberland County Historical Society partial identifications for the sitters in this photo. According to this information, back row, left to right: Unidentified, Unidentified, Ben Harrison, Elias Stanton, Amos Osage, and Harry Kohpay; middle row, left to right: Black Dog, Fred Penn, Edgar McCarthy, William Connor, Peter Big Heart, and Unidentified; bottom row, left to right: Ernest Roe, Richard Rusk, and George Conner.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
