Greenhouse

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Carlisle Indian School Green House, c.1910

The caption reads Green House at Indian School, Carlisle, PA.

This image appears in Souvenir Views of Carlisle, PA (New York, NY: The Valentine Souvenir Company, c.1910).

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Male Students Tending a Garden Beside the Greenhouse, c. 1910

Male students posed with hoes tending a garden area next to the school greenhouse, with the rear of the Academic Building in the background. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's description notes that the white male observing the students may be William Smith George, an instructor. 

Note: This negative is in the…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Working in the Greenhouse [version 1], c. 1910

A white man and a male student posed with flowering plants in the greenhouse. 

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, including…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Working in the Greenhouse [version 2], c. 1910

A white man and a male student posed with flowering plants in the greenhouse. 

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, including…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
color image; a view of the interior of one of the greenhouses, in the foreground is a bed of flowering plants (white, yellow and pink flowers), in the background are raised beds of greenery, the poles which support the roof are visible to the right and run from foreground to background

The caption on the front reads: GREEN HOUSE AT INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

The postcard was sent to Wm. Gutbhall[?] Band 8th Rgt. 3rd Brigade Pa. U. G. U. S. Camp Steward, El Paso Texas. The message reads "Carlisle Pa. Aug. 27 -16 Brother Wm. Sorry to hear you are broke Yors G. A. Sollenly"

 

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
color image; view of the interior of the greenhouse, a bed of pink, white and yellow flowers takes up most of the left side of the photograph, on the right is a path between beds, the poles holding up the roof, and another bed of greenery

The caption on the front of this postcard reads: GREEN HOUSE AT INDIAN SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.

 

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Request to Establish Department of Horticulture at Carlisle
December 9, 1904

William A. Mercer requests authority to establish a horticulture department at the Carlisle Indian School. As a result he requests to purchase materials to build a greenhouse and establish a position of horticulturist.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Mercer Further Discusses his Plan to Build Greenhouse and Hire Staff
February 18, 1905

William A. Mercer further discusses his plan to build a greenhouse and to establish the position of florist or horticulturist.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration