Images

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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Portrait of a large group of male and female students with a white woman posed on the school grounds.

In the front row of standing students, the third person from the left has been identified as Edwin Smith, and James E. Johnson is believed to be in the back right corner.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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

Six male students in uniform, posed in a row. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of five female students and two male students (in uniform) posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging for this image identifies them as "teachers," so they may be student teachers. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio photograph of an unidentified male student. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing glasses.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View looking north of what is presumably the entire student body assembled in neat rows on the central campus. Groups of spectators, probably teachers and staff, are standing or sitting around the nearby buildings. 

This glass negative appears with a collection of other negatives attributed to photographer M. J. Hoover, but he most likely either made a fresh copy from the original negative, or else he simply acquired the original negative and incorporated into his own collection since the image definitely dates from a time before he was operating as a photographer in the town of Carlisle.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Richard Henry Pratt posed seated at his desk holding a document. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

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

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

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

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

An empty schoolroom with a teacher's desk and students desks. This is identified in a label as a "Normal School Room." 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Group portrait of seventeen male students in uniform posed with one white man. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

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 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

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

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student. 

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

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

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