Images

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.

Students working in the print shop. 

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.

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.

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

View of the exterior of a brick building with the sign "Blacksmith and Wagon Shop," with a wagon and a white man in front and two men in the doorway. 

Portrait of nineteen unidentified female students with a white woman, presumably a teacher, posed on the school grounds. 

View of students and instructors posed with wheels in front of a brick building with the sign "Blacksmith and Wagon Shop." 

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-068b, PA-CH3-013a, and BS-CH-054. 

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. 

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

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. 

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 Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-027 and 10-A-06. They identify Commissioner Morgan as being seated in the second row, fifth from the left. 

Portrait of male and female students posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds, with a white man standing at left. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society copy of this image states that they are "Piegan from Blackfeet Agency, Montana, entered Carlisle in November 1889 and March 1890." Previous cataloging for this copy interprets the caption as saying that these students arrived in November 1889 and that the date for this image is March 1890. 

Portrait of male and female students posed on steps of a building on the school grounds, with a white man standing at left. The caption says that these are "Piegan from Blackfeet Agency, Montana, entered Carlisle in November 1889 and March 1890." 

The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of this image says that the students arrived in November 1889 and gives a date for the image of March 1890.

Studio portrait of Susie Metoxen wearing school uniform.

Note: Handwritten caption along side of image: "Susie Metoxen, Mar. 1888." 

A student, wearing a hat and holding an axe or hatchet, standing in the courtyard of the workshops. 

The written caption says: "Andrew Brohme, an Apache Indian, 21 years old, learning to be a carpenter at the Indian School at Carlisle, Penn. June 10, 1890." 

It seems almost certain that this is student Matthew Broom, a member of the Apache Nation, who was at the school at this time and who would have been the right age, and whose student file says he was training in carpentry. 

Studio portrait of Nellie Carey. 

Note: Descriptive information supplied by NAA indicates the date of this image as December, 1890. This may be contained on a caption that's not visible on the image.

Studio portrait of Lucy Cloud and Aggie Cloud. 

Lucy and Aggie were sisters. Lucy was the older sister and is probably seated on the left. 

A handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: Lucy and Aggie Cloud, Dec. 1890.

Studio portrait of a male student who is probably Peter Nahmais.

Studio portrait of twenty people: one male student, eighteen female students, and one teacher. The caption identifies the group of "Miss Moore with her music class." School records show Annie Moore was the music teacher at that time. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of the image dates it to 1891.  

Studio portrait of fourteen male students and nine female students. The caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society identifies them as from the Apache nation and gives a date of 1891 for the image. Previous catloging for this version also says they are Apache students but says there is a date of 16 January 1892 in the caption.

Staff at the Cumberland County Historical Society have identified, based on comparison with other photographs, that the following students are in this group: Parker Whitney West, Ernest Hogee, Viola Zieh, Dorothy Dekhlikiseh, Naomi Merkel (Kohten), Janette Woods (Pahgostatum), Annette Suison, Oswald Smith, Jason Betzinez, and Gail Marko.

Studio portrait of Julia Bent, probably wearing a school uniform.

Studio portrait of Peter Oscar wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of James Riley Wheelock (right) and Martin Wheelock, both wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of twenty people: one male student, eighteen female students, and one teacher. The caption identifies this as "Music Class, 1891." The NAA copy of this image identifies the teacher as Miss Moore. School records show the music teacher was Annie Moore.