Images

View of young male and female students with a female teacher working in a Sloyd class. 

Group portrait of twelve male students, some wearing uniforms with "Carlisle" or "Y.A." on them, posed with baseball equipment.

This is probably one of the informal baseball teams organized to play other school teams. 

Though previously unidentified, a researcher has offered the following details about this photo. The sitters are all Comanche from Oklahoma. Pictured is Red Elk (seated left), Isatia (sometimes spelled Eshiti or called White Eagle, standing left), Chief Quanah Parker, Harold Parker (student and oldest son of Quanah Parker). The women pictured are Laura Parker (student and daughter of Quanah Parker), and Tonarcy (wife of Quanah Parker). The photo dates from January 1896. This photo is corroborated by the "Visiting Chiefs" article in the January 31, 1896 issue of "The Indian Helper." Also, through additional research, there are articles that appear in newspapers in various states in February 1896 about Quanah Parker, his wife, and others visiting Carlisle and Washington DC.

View of young male and female students with a female teacher working in a Sloyd class. 

A white female teacher and a female student posed seated at a piano, as if having a music lesson. A label identifies the teacher was "Mrs. Sawyer;" according to school records, Rebecca Sawyer was an assistant music teacher in 1896. 

Group portrait of thirteen male students, ten wearing baseball uniforms with "Union Reserve" on the front, three not in uniforms. Some are holding bats and there is a catcher's mitt and face mask next to the student posed in front. 

The Union Reserves were one of the school's many baseball teams. They may have been made up of some of the "small boys." 

Snapshot or unposed portrait of three unidentified male students. Two are in school uniforms. The photo looks like it was taken on the school grounds.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: 2/27 . 1896.

According to the journals of the photographer, this candid image is titled "Two Little Indian Boys - Carlisle Indian School" and was taken on February 27, 1896. The journals of the photographer, Marriott C. Morris, are located at the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt and General O. O. Howard in the center of a large group of male and female students posed in front of a school building. The caption identifies the students as being from the Sioux nation and that the photograph was taken on February 28, 1896. 

Studio photograph of the graduating class of 1896.

The caption reads: THE CARLISLE INDIAN-SCHOOL FOOTBALL ELEVEN.

Printup, Redwater, H. Pierce, Lonewolf, Wheelock, B. Pierce, Rogers, Morrison, [unidentified], Metoxen, Smith, McFarland, Miller, Jamiason, Cayou, Hudson, Shelafo, Seneca.

This image appears in Harper's Weekly vol. 41, no. 2092 (January 1897): 93.

The caption reads: THE INDIAN CENTRE.

Lone Wolf, Centre. B. Pierce, Right Guard. Wheelock, Left Guard. Hudson, Quarter-back.

This image appears in Harper's Weekly vol. 40, no. 2081 (October 1896).

The caption reads: INDIANS SCORE A TOUCH-DOWN. Captain B. Pierce about to kick Goal.

The Carlisle Indians played against Yale at Manhattan Field on October 24, 1896.

This image appears in Harper's Weekly vol. 40, no. 2081 (October 1896).

The caption reads: YALE VS. CARLISLE INDIANS, MANHATTAN FIELD, OCTOBER 24, 1896. Cayou, Indian Back, awaiting his Signal.

This image appears in Harper's Weekly vol. 40, no. 2081 (October 1896).

The caption reads: AN INDIAN MASS PLAY ON YALE TACKLE FOR FIVE YARDS GAIN.

The Carlisle Indians played against Yale at Manhattan Field on October 24, 1896.

This image appears in Harper's Weekly vol. 40, no. 2081 (October 1896).

Studio portrait of eleven male students and five female students with one white man. The caption identifies them as being from the Crow nation and provides a date of December 1896. 

Studio portrait of sixteen students, eleven male students and five female students, with one white man. The caption identifies them as "Pupils from the Crow Agency." 

The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image has a caption with the date December 1896. 

Studio portrait of Bertha Pierce. 

Studio portrait of Anna McMillon. 

Note: Although the caption identifies her as Mary McMillan there is no student by that name. 

Studio portrait of Sophia American Horse. 

Studio portrait of Cynthia Cooper wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Casper Alford.

Studio portrait of Perry Tsamanwa.

Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. The students are identified below the image. 

This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01. 

Studio portrait of Jennie Tallchief wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Laura Parker, Juanada Parker, Esther Parker (rear center), and Harold Parker.