Images

Studio portrait of Co-zed (Below). 

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, Girls’ Quarters, Girls’ Industrial Hall and Dining-room, Shops.

Studio portrait of Peter Cornelius wearing a uniform and holding a cornet. 

Studio portrait of seven unidentifield male students with one white boy. The caption for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image identifies the white boy as John Nisley. Cumberland County Historical Society cataloging identifies the students as being from the Crow nation. 

Studio portrait of seven unidentified male students. 

Studio portrait of Sarah Walker. 

Studio portrait of twelve young male students, all in school uniforms. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as "Pueblo and other Indian students." 

Studio portrait of Peter Cornelius wearing a uniform holding a cornet. 

Studio portrait of six unidentified male students. 

Previous cataloging identifies them as members of the Blackfoot nation, presumably from information in the caption. 

Studio portrait of two unidentified female students, one holding a circular fan. 

Portrait of thirteen male students, most in athletic gear. The student in the center is holding a football with a "P" on it. 

Note: Previous cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image identifies the team as the "Pirates." 

Portrait of T.J. Morgan, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, posed with Richard Henry Pratt and the school's teachers on the school grounds. 

The school newspapers reported a visited by Morgan to the school in February of 1890. It's possible that this photograph was taken at that time although the weather does not appear very wintry. 

The people and the way they are posed is almost identical to another sitting of this group in images: PA-CH2-027 and 10-A-06.

Second school building with many students on the porches and lined up to enter. 

This building was built in 1888, replacing the original school building.

Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students and seven unidentified female students with one white woman. Previous cataloging identifies this group as "Miss Adams' Class." 

There are no records for a teacher named Miss Adams. This is probably teacher Clara C. McAdam who taught between 1890 and 1893. 

View of four buildings used as workshops on the school grounds.

Students working in the print shop. 

Portrait of thirteen male students, most in athletic gear. The student in the center is holding a football with a "P" on it. 

Note: Previous cataloging for this image identifies the team as the "Pirates." 

Studio portrait of thirteen unidentified male students and five unidentified female students. Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Pawnee nation. 

Studio portrait of teacher Marianna Burgess. 

Studio portrait of seventeen unidentified male students in school uniforms with one white man in the center of the group. 

Previous cataloging has interpreted the caption to indicate the group is Cheyenne and that the date is January 1890. 

Group portrait of ten male students, nine in baseball uniforms with "Indians" on the front, some holding bats. One student is posed in the center, not in uniform.

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student. 

Studio portrait of two unidentified female students. 

The guard house with three figures, probably two men and one boy, standing in front. One man is leaning on what appears to be a tree stump. Poles for electrical wires are visible behind the building. 

Previous cataloging assigns a date of 1897 to this image but it is not clear what this is based on.

This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902). It was also used to create postcards, see Related Images below.

Studio portrait of teacher Alice M. Seabrook.