Images

A group portrait of football players from the 1896 team (ball with '96 on it is in photo). 

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. 

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. 

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

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 sitters are marked with white numbers and identified in the caption below. They are: 1. Adams, Johnson, Chippewa  2. Davenport, Susie, Ottawa  3. Cayou, Frank, Omaha  4. Cornelius, Leila,Oneida  5. Gansworth, Leander, Tuscarora  6. Henry, Timothy, Tuscarora  7. Hill, Herman, N., Oneida  8. Hudson, Frank, Pueblo  9. Spotts, Edward, Puyallup  10. Snyder, Cora, Seneca  11. Kennedy, LeRoy, Seneca  12. Leslie, John, Puyallup  13. Martinez, Joseph, Crow  14. Webster, Cynthia, Oneida  15. Parker, Alice, Chippewa  16. Penoi, Mark, Pueblo  17. Simon, Elmer, Chippewa  18. Lowe, Adelia, Sioux  19. Lone Wolf, Delos, Kiowa 20. Elmore, Julia, Digger (Maidu)   21. Wheelock, James Riley, Oneida  22. Wolfe, Mark,  Cherokee  23.  Jackson, Robert, Chehalis 24. Geisdorff, Louise, Crow 25. Leighton, William, Crow.

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.

Studio portrait of Reuben Tahpeos wearing school uniform.

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 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 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 Thomas Griffin wearing school uniform.

Six Alaskan students posed on the deck of a ship, presumably taken on their journey to Carlisle. They are (from left to right) Annie Coodlalook, Cooki Glook, Anna Buck, Esenetuck, Tomiclock, and Laublock. All are wearing cloaks with fur-lined hoods.

Although this negative was included among photographer J.N. Choate's images, he could not have been present aboard the ship that brought these students from Alaska. The original photographer is unknown. 

Studio portrait of Edith Smith.

Studio portrait of Ambrose Lewis.

Studio portrait of Jonah Penasa [?] wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Odell La Fleur wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Josephine Janese.

Studio portrait of Edward Hensley.

Portrait of a visting chief shaking hands with Richard Henry Pratt posed on the school grounds with a group of thirteen female students and seventeen male students. A white woman, probably a teacher, with a parasol or umbrella can be seen in the background near a school building. 

Previous cataloging, presumably interpreting caption information scratched on the plate, indicates the chief is American Horse and the date is 1897.