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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A large group of male and female students, some in uniform, posed with at least two white women, presumably teachers, on the steps of a school building. One male student is inside the building looking out a window.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the school grounds showing the teachers' quarters and the band stand.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A class room with smaller male and female students, some standing and writing on the blackboard. A white female teacher sits at a desk in the front.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Four female teachers seated on the grass on the school grounds. One is holding open some sheet music. They are identified on the reverse of the photo as Anne H. Stewart, Jessie L. McIntire, Annie B. Moore and Jeannette Senseney.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Younger male and female students posed sitting at desks in what a label identifies as a "Normal Room."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Interior of school dining room with tables set for a meal. Female student workers are standing at the ends of the tables around the perimeter of the room.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the rear of the Industrial Workshop Building, with a few male students in the foreground.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed working at tables in the wagonmaking shop.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed working at machines and standing at tables in the shoe shop.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students in uniform, including what appears to be a small group of the school band at left, posed at the edge of the school grounds in front of a fence. The handwritten caption states "showing farm buildings in the distance."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male and female students posed in a wood working classroom with a white female teacher. On the blackboard at the back of the room the word "Sloyd" is visible, indicating that this was a Sloyd classroom.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed standing at ironing boards in a room with a large cast iron stove in the center, holding irons, and drying racks.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Large group of male students lined up both in front of and behind the school's fire engine on a path with the Girls' Quarters in the background. Female students are standing on the lawn and on the porches of the building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A view of the central campus with female students in the background and a young male student in the foreground.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's description states the label on this image is "Girls at Play."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A large group of female students posed on the steps of a school building with one older white woman. Some students in the front row hold a banner that says "YWCA."\
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a print of this image (13-15-01).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of a large group of male and female students with white teachers. The Cumberland County Historical Society identifies this as the school's choir.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View taken from the center of campus showing the Girls' Quarters and the Bandstand, with female students on the grounds.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna Mason Pratt, Richard Henry Pratt's wife.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption on this postcard reads: Carlisle, Pa., Bakery and Bakers, Indian School.
This postcard was sent to Mr. John P. Miller, Burnham, Pa. Mifflin Co. The message reads: "Dear Son, I am still looking for that letter now write to me at once as I am anxious to hear from you. Mother"
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
There is no caption on the front of the postcard nor is there anything written on the back. (The back has remnants of glue though.)
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on the front reads: CAMPUS IN WINTER, U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE PA.
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on the front of the postcard reads: ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE PA
The only words on the back are standard instructions for placement of the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections