Images

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student. 

Frank Mt. Pleasant as a member of the Dickinson College Varsity Track Team.  He appears seated on the second step on the left side.

This image is from the Microcosm, yearbook of Dickinson College, for the 1909-1910 academic year.

Interior of a dining room with round tables and bentwood chairs. 

A caption on the reverse identifies it as "Carlisle Indian School Dining Room." A note in the Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging observes that the chandeliers appear to be gas converted to electric lights. 

The Leupp Indian Art Studio. 

Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock long after leaving the school. He is identified on the reverse as a "modern chief." 

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Carlisle Indian School Cross-Country Runners, All set for the yearly event of a 6 mile run. Tewanima, famous Indian runner in center (X)." 

Portrait of Joseph Libby in a football uniform. 

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Libby -- (Q.B.) 'Ponca' Star in 1910. 'Hall of Fame' Member." 

Snapshot of four white women, presumably school employees, leaning against a low wall, two holding opened umbrellas. 

They appear to be seated in the area on the north side of the Leupp Art Studio, with the view behind them of the fields to the north of the school.

Studio portrait of a large group of seated and standing male and female students, identified as the graduating class of 1910. They are identified in a label attached below the photo. They are: 1) Margaret B. Burd 2) Stella Bear 3) Stacey Beck Hardy 4) John Bastian 5) Inex Brown 6) Johnson Enos 7) Louis George 8) Adeline Greenbrier 9) Carlyle G. Charles 10) Levi Hillman 11) Raymond Hitchcok 12) Sarah Hoxie 13) Louise Kenney 14) Joseph Loudbear 15) William Nelson 16) Mary Redthunder 17) Selina Twoguns 18) Fannie Keokuk 19) Katie Wolfe, and 20) Eveyln Pierce. 

The caption reads: ENTRANCE WAY TO THE CARLISLE SCHOOL GROUNDS AND CAMPUS 

This image appears in Red Man vol. 2, no. 10 (June 1910): 23.

Members of the school band posed in front of male students in formation on the school grounds. 

The school band with instruments posed on an open bus with band director Claude Stauffer standing at the front of the vehicle. 

View of the campus from the northwest, showing the Le Tort Creek, trolley and trolley tracks on Pratt Avenue, as well as the entrace gates, Leupp Art Studio, staff residences, and the backs of buildings such as the dining hall, laundry, and boiler house. 

View of the Guard House with perimeter fence and entrance gates in background.

View from Pratt Avenue, showing the entrance gates and school buildings.

A field near the school with male students posed working in the foreground and female students in the background. 

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 apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.

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 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 apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.

Male students posed shoveling coal into boilers with white instructor or supervisor looking on. 

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 apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.

Two female students posed seated at a desk and at a table, and another female student standing next to the desk, at one end of the sewing room. Nearby is a table with piles of printed materials, probably patterns or reference works. 

The Cumberland County Historical assigned this photograph the title "Dress Designing at the Carlisle Indian School." 

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 apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.

Male students posed shoveling coal into boilers with white instructor or supervisor looking on. 

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 apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.

Two male students posed standing either putting bread into or taking it out of an oven in the school bakery. 

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 apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.

There is no printed caption on the front of the postcard. Someone has written, by hand, the words Indian Boy at Carlisle Pa. There is also an address on the front: "Van P. Ault, Wilmerding, Pa. Box 266."

On the back the card has been addressed to "W. H. Seward, Windsor N. Y., Brown Co."

A view taken in the winter looking at the far northwestern part of the school grounds, showing many people standing on the bridge over the Letort Creek and many people skating on the frozen pond created by damming the creek. 

Male and female students posed working at desks and some working with fabric on a vertical loom. On black boards are examples of Native-style design motifs. 

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 apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.

Male student posed standing on a horse-drawn wagon with hay outside two barns, with cows in an enclosure next to one of the barns. 

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 apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.