The Images section features photographs, postcards, and different types of artwork, as well as reproductions of images that appeared in newspapers, magazines, and other publications. These images all reflect the Carlisle Indian School students, facilities, and staff. Images available here are drawn from files housed at the U. S. National Archives, from collections of Carlisle Indian School materials housed at various archival repositories, and from a variety of published sources. Visitors to this website are also invited to share copies of photographs from their own personal and family collections; please contact us if you have images you would like to contribute.
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View of students posed in the paint shop with carriage wheel frames.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-123 and 14B-12-01) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#55). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. 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 students painting the exterior of a building on the school grounds.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-121 and 14B-12-05) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#38). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students posted with sets of carriage wheels in the Paint Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-120 and 14B-12-02) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#56). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. 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
Frank Mt. Pleasant as a junior at Dickinson College.
This image is from the Microcosm, the yearbook of Dickinson College, for the 1908-09 academic year.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of students working in the Paint Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-122 and 14B-12-04) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#64). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. 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 students and instructor working in the Blacksmith Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-125 and 14B-11-02) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#22). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the front of the Girls' Quarters, showing the trees, benches, and paths of the central campus.
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 students posed working in the Carpenter Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-130 and 14B-14-01) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#85). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students working in the Paint Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-119 and 14B-12-03) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#80). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students and instructor working in the Blacksmith Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-124 and 14B-11-03) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#23). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. 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
The caption on this postcard reads: Educated Eskimos, of Alaska, Graduates of Carlisle University.
This postcard has not been sent. A symbol on the back indicates that it was connected to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, 1909.
This postcard is reproduced and colorized from a photograph of former Carlisle students Anna Buck (standing) and Mollie Dalilak (seated).
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of a large group of seated and standing male and female students, identified as the graduating class of 1909. They are identified in a label attached below the photo. They are: 1) Alonzo Patton 2) Michael Balenti 3) Cecilia Baronovitch 4) Savannah Beck 5) Bennett, Georgia 6) Olga Reinkin 7) Alonzo G. Brown 8) Irene Brown 9) Robert Davenport 10) Martha Day 11) Margaret D. King 12) George Gardner 13) Josephine Gates 14) Charles HIll 15) Elmira Jerome 16) Orlando Johnson 17) Helen Lane Wolf 18) Marie Lewis 19) Samuel McLean 20) Charles M. Henderson 21) Myrtle Peters 22) Thomas Saul 23) Patrick Verney 24) Elizabeth Webster 25) John White, and 26) William Weeks.
Charles M. Henderson is also known as Charles Mitchell.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this photo: FB04-05 and FB04-12.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students posed shoeing a horse in the Blacksmith Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-126 and 14B-11-04) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#60). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the shoe shop showing machinery and students working.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-136 and 14B-13-01) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#02). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students posed working in the Carpenter Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-128 and 14B-14-02) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#84). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two male students posed working in the tin shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-143 and 14B-13-04) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#65). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the mechanical drafting classroom showing students working at rows of desks.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-138 and 14B-10-04) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#08). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students posed working in the Carpenter Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-129 and 14B-14-03) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#74). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption: Carlisle Graduate 1910, World War Veteran, Football Coach Uni. of Ariz.
Lyons . . . (R.H.B.) (Chippewa) Captain Football Team 1909
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the mechanical drafting classroom showing the top of a staircase at left and students working at desks at right.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-139 and 14B-10-05) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#09). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the shoe shop showing tables with shoes on them, machinery, and students at work.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image (14B-12-06 and PA-CH3-137). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because both the prints (and others in the series) are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. 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 tailor shop showing long work tables. An instructor and students are working at the rear of the room.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image (14B-13-02 and PA-CH3-134). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because both the prints (and others in the series) are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. 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 tailor shop showing students working at long tables.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-135 and 14B-13-03) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#73). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students at work in the masonry department.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-132 and 14B-10-02) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#42). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Eleven male students posed on the field in football uniforms. They are all looking down and so their faces are not visible.
They are identified as the 1909 Varsity Line-Up.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society