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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Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Photograph of a photograph of former student Stephen Reuben in a feathered headess with a horse. The photograph is lableled: "Stephen Reuben, Carlisle Student, 4th of July Celebration, Spalding Idaho."
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photographic Print, B&W
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
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."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
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
School laundry building with a trolley car parked alongside it. Four trolley conductors are standing beside the car.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
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
A large group of male students, most not in uniforms, posed, with one white man in the center of the bottom row, standing and sitting in front of one of the school buildings.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as members of the YMCA.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed working at tables in the wagonmaking shop.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 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 thirty-seven women, presumably all female students, wearing large hats, posed on the school grounds in front of the flag pole.
This portrait may have taken as they were gathered to return home (a "home party").
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student wearing a white dress.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Lantern Slide
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
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
View of a snowy campus with a man near the flag pole on a path cleared from the Girls' Quarters to the pole. The Girls' Quarters is in the background.
The image is somewhat damaged.
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
Group portrait of seventeen male students in uniform posed with one white man.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society