Images

Studio portrait of Johnson Owl.

Studio portrait of Howard E. Gansworth. This photo was scanned from a program for a dinner held by the Carlisle Indian School Alumni Association held on April 2, 1908. It is not clear when this photo was taken. 

Studio portrait of Mr. Terrance with two male students and seven female students. The caption identifies Terrance and that the students were from the Mohawk nation. 

There is a Mr. Terrance mentioned in the student newspapers as being from the Mohawk nation and having three children of his own at the school. 

The headline reads: Many Indians in the City; Adopt White Man's Ways

The first caption reads: Frank A. Kennedy, Seneca, Who Has Become an Automobile Expert.

The second caption reads: Ezra L. Jacobs of Brooklyn, A Seneca Indian and Descendant of Chief Cornplanter, Who Has Served in the Regular Army and Seen Phillippine Service.

A large group of male and female students posed on the school grounds.

This image, with the caption PORTO RICAN GROUP, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 99].

This image is a later print made by the Cumberland County Historical Society from an unidentified source. 

Studio portrait of Laura Ammon.

Studio portrait of Mabel Greely. 

Studio portrait of Mary Pradt and Zenobia Garcia.

Studio portrait of Hattie Acklin. 

Studio portrait of Charlotte (here Lottie) Harris.

Studio portrait of Raleigh Jackson (left) and Elijah Wheelock (right), both wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of James Browndog. A handwritten caption written along the side of the image probably reads: James Brown Dog.

Studio portrait of Charles Bent. 

Studio portrait of Anna Buck and Cooki Glook. 

Studio portrait of Julio Fernandez wearing school uniform. 

This photo may have been taken in advance of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. Joel Bernice Ettinger, director of the band, is standing in the center holding the baton. James Riley Wheelock, future band director, is seated just to his right.

This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).

Studio portrait of the graduating class of 1901. 

The students are identified with white numbers corresponding to the typed label below the photograph. They are:1. Peters, Nellie,  2. Palmer, Jessie,  3. Johnson, Mark,  4. Johnson, Dollie,  5. Baine, John,  6. Powlas, Alice,  7. Beaver, Frank,  8. Brown, Samuel J.,  9.  Goyituey, Anna,  10. Coates, Henrietta,  11. Wasson, Jennie, 12. Ferris, George,  13. Gansworth, Alberta,  14. Gansworth, Willard,  15. Mishler, Stella,  16. Tibbetts, Luzena,  17. Johnson, James, E.,  18. LaChapelle, Joseph,  19. Parnell, Anna,  20. McIntosh, Donald,  21. Moore, Edwin,  22. Nash, Augusta,  23. Parker, Mattie,  24. Niles, Herman,  25. Palmer, Simon,  26. LaChapelle, Pearl,  27. Powlas, John,  28. Pratt, Arthur,  29. Rickard, Edgar,  30. Denny, Elnora,  31. Moore, Edwin,  32. Spieche, Alonza,  33. Swallow, Ida,  34. Tapia, Antonio,  35. Temple, Wingate,  36. Warren, Eugene,  37. Willing, Edward G.,  38 Sturm, Ella, 39.  Moses, Myron

Note: Edwin Smith, a member of this graduating class, is not included in the photo.

School band leading male students marching down Pennsylvania Avenue, with the U. S. Capital in the background, with the caption that this is the inauguration of President McKinley. 

Columns of male students exercising in unison with wands. In this image the students are standing holding the wands in front of them. 

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 of that year and took at least one hundred photographs. When the school closed in 1918, two albums of Johnston's photographs were sent to the Pennsylvania State Museum, which transferred them to the Cumberland County Historical Society in 1934. This is one of the images from those albums.

Young students standing next to their desks in a classroom. 

Cataloging for this image from the Cumberland County Historical Society speculates that they are learning "a finger song." 

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 of that year and took at least one hundred photographs. When the school closed in 1918, two albums of Johnston's photographs were sent to the Pennsylvania State Museum, which transferred them to the Cumberland County Historical Society in 1934. This is one of the images from those albums.

Female students in white dresses posed playing croquet on the school grounds next to the bandstand. A white man with a lawnmower stands watching them and other female students are posed in the background, walking and seated.

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 of that year and took at least one hundred photographs. When the school closed in 1918, two albums of Johnston's photographs were sent to the Pennsylvania State Museum, which transferred them to the Cumberland County Historical Society in 1934. This is one of the images from those albums.

The Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress also contains a print of this photograph. A copy of that print is available for download from the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/item/98503031/.

This image with the caption CROQUET appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 13].

Male students seated as audience facing a male student addressing the group from a podium. A white female teacher and four male students are seated behind the speaker. 

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 of that year and took at least one hundred photographs. When the school closed in 1918, two albums of Johnston's photographs were sent to the Pennsylvania State Museum, which transferred them to the Cumberland County Historical Society in 1934. This is one of the images from those albums.

Johnston took two very similar photographs of this classroom. The other version can be seen in Related Images.

This image with the caption Y. M. C. A. appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 55].

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 document the school at Carlisle for an exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Johnston visited the school in the spring of that year and took at least one hundred photographs. When the school closed in 1918, two albums of Johnston's photographs were sent to the Pennsylvania State Museum, which transferred them to the Cumberland County Historical Society in 1934. This is one of the images from those albums.

The Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress also contains a print of this photograph. A copy of that print is available for download from the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/item/2008675519/  

This image with the caption BOYS' BEDROOM appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 60].

Four younger male students posed seated at a table reading with two older male students standing, also reading. 

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 of that year and took at least one hundred photographs. When the school closed in 1918, two albums of Johnston's photographs were sent to the Pennsylvania State Museum, which transferred them to the Cumberland County Historical Society in 1934. This is one of the images from those albums.

The Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress also contains a print of this photograph. A copy of that print is available for download from the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/item/2003655521/.  

This image with the caption SMALL BOYS' READING ROOM appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.53]. 

Group of seated male students facing two male students seated at a desk on a dais and one male student standing as if to address the group. 

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 of that year and took at least one hundred photographs. When the school closed in 1918, two albums of Johnston's photographs were sent to the Pennsylvania State Museum, which transferred them to the Cumberland County Historical Society in 1934. This is one of the images from those albums.

The Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress also contains a print of this photograph. A copy of that print is available for download from the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/item/2008675522/.  

This image with the caption INVINCIBLE DEBATING SOCIETY appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 58].