Boiler House

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The Boiler House Interior, c. 1895

Caption: THE BOILER HOUSE INTERIOR.

The buildings are all heated by steam from this central plant consisting of three 100-horse-power water tube boilers. All the work of digging the trenches, laying the pipes and fitting up the buildings for the system was done by the Indian boys under the direction of a skilled…

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Man Shoveling Coal into a Boiler, c. 1897

A white man posed shoveling coal into a boiler in the boiler room. 

Format:
Lantern Slide
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Students Working in the Boiler House [version 1], 1901

Two male students posed shoveling coal in the Boiler House while a white man looks on. 

In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston to document the school at Carlisle for an exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Johnston…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Students Working in the Boiler House [version 2], 1901

Two male students posed shoveling coal in the Boiler House while a white man looks on. 

In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston to document the school at Carlisle for an exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Johnston visited the school in the spring…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Boiler House with Water Tower, c. 1909

View of the Boiler House with a water tower behind it. A group of male students in standing in front, and the Store House can be seen in the background. 

Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the Large Boys' Quarters and the Boiler House, c.1909

View taken from beside the Large Boys' Quarters, showing them on the right, the Gymnasium at left and the Boiler House in the center in the distance. 

Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Boiler Room with Students Working, c. 1910

View of the boiler room with students and staff at work. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Students Shoveling Coal in the Boiler Room [version 1], c. 1910

Male students posed shoveling coal into boilers with white instructor or supervisor looking on. 

Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers,…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Students Shoveling Coal in the Boiler Room [version 2], c. 1910

Male students posed shoveling coal into boilers with white instructor or supervisor looking on. 

Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers,…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Response to Office Letters Regarding Boiler House and Nellie Carey
December 3, 1891

Richard Henry Pratt replies to two Office of Indian Affairs letters regarding the construction of the Boiler House and the pay of student Nellie Carey as a matron.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Purchase Supplies Connected to Heating Plant
July 5, 1900

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase various supplies and materials connected to the new heating plant including iron pipes and fittings.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Renew Authority to Build Brick Stack for Boiler House
July 5, 1900

Richard Henry Pratt requests renewal of the authority for building the brick stack to enlarge the boiler house.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Details Damage Caused by Cyclone to Various Buildings
July 4, 1902

Richard Henry Pratt follows up his telegram providing greater detail on the damage caused by a cyclone to various school buildings.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Funds to Replace the Roof on the Boiler House
September 23 - October, 7 1909

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests $495 for 2,000 square yards of slag roofing to replace the tin roofing on the boilerhouse. Friedman later calls attention to his request.

Format:
Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration