Large Boys’ Quarters

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First group of male students (staggered pose) [version 1], 1879

Group portrait of the first male students at the school in front the boys' dormitory. Some are standing on the balcony of the building, others are seated or standing on the porch or in front of the building. Interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at the far left. 

These students came from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies and…

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Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
First group of male students (staggered pose) [version 2], 1879

Group portrait of the first male students at the school in front the boys' dormitory. Some are standing on the balcony of the building, others are seated or standing on the porch or in front of the building. Interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at the far left. 

These students came from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies and…

Nation:
Format:
Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Side View of the Large Boys' Quarters, c. 1880

View of the side of the Large Boys' Quarters, showing the row of trees and path in front of the building. The view was probably taken looking towards the northwest, with the fence in the background marking the boundary of the school campus. 

Format:
Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed on the balconies of their quarters [version 1], 1880

Male students in school uniforms posed on the balcony, front porch, and in front of a building on the school grounds, presumably the Boys' Quarters. 

One of the Cumberland County Historical Society's copies of this image is captioned "Indian boys in first uniforms Apr. 1880." 

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Male students posed on the balconies of their quarters [version 2], 1880

Male students posed in school uniforms on the balcony, front porch, and in front of a building on the school grounds, presumably the Boys' Quarters. 

The caption on this image identifies it as "Indian boys in first uniforms Apr. 1880." The copy of the image at the American Philosophical Society has the handwritten caption "Indian…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Boys' Quarters, c.1881

Male students posed in front of the building used as the Boys' Quarters, later known as the Large Boys' Quarters. 

This image was taken before the third floor was added. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Large Boys' Quarters, c.1881

View of the Boys' Quarters with students in uniforms posed on the porches and in the yard in front of the building. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the school grounds from the school building [version 1], c.1884

View of the school grounds looking east/northeast, probably taken from the porch of the School Building. On the left is the Teachers' Quarters, with a fence around the area behind the quarters. On the right is the Chapel. The Large Boys' Quarters is visible in the center in the distance. 

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Male students in drill formation, c. 1885

View of male studens in uniform practicing drilling on the grounds in front of the Large Boys' Quarters. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Large Boys' Quarters Under Construction, 1886

A view of the re-built Large Boys' Quarters under construction. Work on the third floor is still in progress. Workers, including students, are posed in front of the building amongst construction materials. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Large Boys' Quarters, c.1887

View of the Large Boys' Quarters, likely taken not long after construction.

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Large Boys' Dormitory, c. 1888

View of the Large Boys' Quarters, with students on the porches and in front of the building, probably taken in the winter. 

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Composite Images of the Carlisle Indian School

The handwritten note reads: CHOATE

The reverse side reads: Old Guard House    Capt. R. H. Pratt Supt.    Old Chapel.     Supt. Quarters.      Ass't Supt. Quarters     Small Boys' Quarters.  …

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Buildings at the Carlisle Indian School, #1, c.1890

A composite of 16 photographs of the school. The captions read: Small Boys’ Quarters, Ass’t. Supt’s. Quarters, Superintendent’s Quarters, Chapel, Guard House, Hospital, Disciplinarian’s Quarters, Band Stand, After School, School Building, Large Boys’ Quarters, Christmas Dinner, School Room, Office & Teachers’ Quarters, Gymnasium,…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of the school grounds from the school building [version 2], c.1884

View of the school grounds looking east/northeast, probably taken from the porch of the School Building. On the left is the Teachers' Quarters, with a fence around the area behind the quarters. On the right is the Chapel. The Large Boys' Quarters is visible in the center in the distance. 

The Dickinson College Archives and Special…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Bedroom-Large Boys' Quarters, c. 1895

Caption: BEDROOM - LARGE BOYS' QUARTERS.

These rooms, 14 x 16 feet, contain three beds each, a wardrobe with three divisions, one for each occupant, a table, chair, washstand, etc., and are decorated with such pictures and ornaments as the occupants may be able or choose to provide.

This…

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The Large Boys' Quarters, c. 1895

Caption: THE LARGE BOYS' QUARTERS.

replace an old barrack building that stood on the same site in the early days of the School, and are 292 x 38 feet.

Congress had not then faith in Indian education, and after several years of disappointment, the boys from their earnings on farms…

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Two Male Students in a Room in their Quarters, c. 1900

Two male students wearing uniforms seated at either side of a table in a student's bedroom. 

Format:
Lantern Slide
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Male Students Reading in Their Bedroom, 1901

Two male students in uniform posed seated at a table reading. They are in the corner of a room with extensive decorations hung on the walls, with a washstand and a trunk on either side of the table. 

In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston to…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
color image; view of the northwest corner of the large boys' quarters (three floors), a tree is in the foreground on the right side of the image

The printed caption on the front of the postcard reads: Boys Quarters, Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. There is also a hand written message below that caption which reads "Hello Steward, here is I am well thinmgle[?] the winter for my life, from R. B. Guystone."

The postcard was addressed to Master Stewart Hefflefinger,…

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
color image; view of the northwest corner of the large boys' quarters (three floors), a tree is in the foreground on the right side of the image

The caption of the front of the postcard reads: Boys Quarters, Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.

The postcard was sent to Mr. Chas. L. Horn, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The message (written on the front of the card reads Hello Charlie, how you was? How is the dealer? Ha! Ha! A. R. W."

 

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Carlisle Indian School campus panorama [version 1], 1909

A panorama photo (10" x 50") of the Carlisle Indian School campus, facing east.

The caption reads: U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE, PENNA.

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Central Campus with Students Playing Tennis, c. 1909

View of the central campus, looking toward the side of the Girls' Quarters, the Gymnasium with the attached low building for the bowling alley, the Large Boys' Quarters and the Athletic Quarters. In the grass, nets have been set up and male students are holding rackets. 

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

View taken at an angle of the Large Boys' Quarters. 

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