Images



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 IRONING ROOM.

The Laundry is provided with three steam washers, stationary tubs, a centrifugal wringer, a mangle, and a steam drying room.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 50. 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 Amelia Clark and Susan Gibbs.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Julia Long.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Caption: THE BLACKSMITH SHOP INTERIOR.

has five forges, each one requiring two hands for morning and two for afternoon work. The principal work is building wagons of which the Government is the chief purchaser. Last year one wagon was shipped to a Negro mission school in Africa, the missionary, Mr. Stuart, having seen the wagon at the World's Fair. There are also purchasers among the Indians.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 46. 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 Paul Hayne. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

This image was published in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 47 with the caption:

PRINTING OFFICE.

This department can hardly be surpassed as an educational factor and is open to both sexes. The office is equipped with one oscillating Campbell press and two eclipse, as well as smaller job presses, all run by steam

 Many of the photographs in that publication were taken by student photographer John Leslie.  Because this print is pasted into an album, we cannot confirm if this one was or not.  

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

A collage of six photographs.

Caption: INDIAN BOYS IN THE COUNTRY.

illustrates the outing system, which is the practical side of Carlisle training. The Indian under the same opportunities becomes just as good a hand at all the varied employments of the farm as the white man.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 60.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Charles Low Cloud.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Lucy Enter Lodge.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Caption: PRINTING OFFICE - MAILING DEPARTMENT.

The School publishes two papers, "The Indian Helper," weekly, with a circulation of about 10,000 ; subscriptions price 10 cents a year ; and "The Red Man," monthly, at 50 cents a year, which is especially devoted to the discussion of different opinions and phases of the Indian question.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 48. 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

Caption: THE ASSEMBLY HALL AND CHAPEL.

is in the central part of the School building. It is light and airy and seats 800 persons.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 59. 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

Caption: THE BLACKSMITH SHOP.

The Indian boys soon become adepts in this trade, forging the horseshoe and setting it, learning to fashion the iron to any desired shape, working bar steel into tools with skill and readiness hardly credible unless witnessed.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 45. 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 Eva Rogers, Rosalie Doctor, and Jeanette Rice.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Annie Marmon and Effie Marmon, both probably wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Caption: THE Y. M. C. A.

This Association, started in 1884 with a small membership, has now about 150 members, with a neat hall, 54 x 29 feet, comfortably furnished. It is in full membership in the state and national organizations, sending regular delegates and reports to their conventions.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 54. 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

Caption THE SEWING ROOM.

In this department from twenty to sixty girls are daily employed in cutting, making and repairing all the clothing by the girls of the School, and the boys' shirts and underclothing.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 51. 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 three male and four female students. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of six unidentified male students posed outside on the school grounds.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Susie Baker and Mamie Ryan, both wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Caption: THE HOSPITAL.

This necessary adjunct of the School is officered with a resident physician, a trained nurse in charge and an Indian girl assistant who is also a trained nurse. It has its own kitchen and special diet table. The rooms are well heated and lighted and all usual appliances for the proper care of the sick are provided.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 52. 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

Caption: THE FARM HOUSE.

On the School farm of 109 acres is a very pretty, old-fashioned homestead. The arm has a beautiful, never failing spring, and good buildings, the barn being 120 x 72 feet and complete in every respect. The School also owns another farm of 157 acres and rents other land, so that in all it has about 300 acres. Dairying is a distinctive part of the farm work.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 53. 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

View of Robert B. Johnson as a student at the Carlisle Indian School around 1895.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

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