Carlisle, PA

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Panoramic View of the Carlisle Indian School, #1, c.1914

The caption reads: Panoramic View of Indian School and Campus, Carlisle, PA.

The reverse side contains a note sent to Marie Belbeck sent from Carlisle, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1914.

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Panoramic View of the Carlisle Indian School, #2, c.1914

The caption reads: Panoramic View of Indian School and Campus, Carlisle, Pa.

The reverse side includes a note to Lillian Simons in Mashpee, Massachusetts from Billie. The note is sent from Carlisle, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1914.

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
West Street A. M. E. Zion Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1914

The caption reads: WEST ST. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, CARLISLE, PA.

The reverse side includes a note from Mary Chief to Mrs. Brennan at Pine Ridge, SD, sent from Carlisle on October 15, 1914.

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Meroney French and Lucy West, 1916

The caption reads: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (Meroney French and Lucy West).

This image appears in The Carlisle Arrow vol. 13, no. 1 (July 1916): 4.

Format:
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Carlisle's Sewing Room, 1918

The caption reads: SEWING ROOM, INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE, PA.

The reverse side includes a note from Charles Littlechief to John Francis Jr. sent from Solen, North Dakota, dated February 18, 1918.

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
black and white image; in the foreground a group of young women are posed playing croquet, in the middle ground other young women sit on a bench by the band stand or walk, there is also a man with a lawnmower to the right, in the background is the bandstand, girls' quarters and just visible are the gymnasium and large boy's quarters

The caption on this postcard reads: Band Stand and Girls Quarters, Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.

The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.

 

Format:
Postcard (Commercial)
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Indian School Cemetery [view 1], c.1990

A photograph from around 1990 of several rows of headstones belonging to Carlisle Indian School students in the School cemetery.

Format:
Film Negative
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Indian School Cemetery [view 2], c.1990

A photograph from around 1990 of several rows of headstones belonging to Carlisle Indian School students in the School cemetery. 

Format:
Film Negative
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Hand-written letter on onion-skin paper
September 30, 1879

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra A. Hayt's reply to a James E. Rhoades, a man who requested that two Shawnee boys who he is looking after "be sent to school at Hampton, Va." Hayt lets Rhoades know that he can arrange to have the boys be educated at Hampton Institute or Carlisle Indian School. Hayt describes Pratt's plan to go to Indian…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Hand-written letter on onion-skin paper
October 16, 1879

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra E. Hayt's suggests that letters sent by the children cannot be classed under the head of official correspondence, and therefore those letters should not use "official" stamps." Hayt does encourage letter writing and tells Pratt to provide an estimate for the purchase of U.S. postage stamps.

 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
First page of typed transcript of Peter Eastman
February 6, 1914

A typed transcript of Peter Eastman's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Eastman was a student at Carlisle.

Eastman discusses unjust punishment, the strained relationship between Superintendent Friedman and the student body, and the removal of Dr. James W. W. Walker as Y.M.C.A. advisor at the…

Format:
Legal and Government Documents
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration