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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Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread. 

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 central campus with the Bandstand, the Girls' Quarters, and the Teacher's Quarters with snow-covered grounds. 

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

View of a corner of a room of a female student. A table or desk is covered with many framed photographs. There is a framed photograph of the school band hanging above the desk and there's another photograph, probably also of Carlisle students, sitting on a chair. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of a corner in a girl's room, with a large window flanked with a bookcase and a bureau. 

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."

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

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

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

Studio portrait of Anna Mason Pratt, Richard Henry Pratt's wife. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of the  football team. In the version of this image in publications, the players are identified: (L to R): Isaac Seneca (Seneca), William G. Thompson (Coach), Thaddeus Redwater (Cheyenne), Martin Wheelock (Oneida), Frank Scott (Seneca), Glenn Scoby "Pop" Warner (Coach), Jonas Metoxen (Oneida), James E. Johnson (Stockbridge), Artie Miller (Stockbrige), Joseph Scholder (Mission), Bemus Pierce (Seneca), Caleb M. Sickles (Oneida), Edwin Smith (Kallam), Frank Hudson (Pueblo), Edward Lowell Rogers (Chippewa). 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building. 

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: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of five male students and four female students posed on the steps of the court house (now known as the Old Court House) with one white man and one white woman, presumably teachers. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Two male students wearing uniforms seated at either side of a table in a student's bedroom. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student wearing a white dress. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

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

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

Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Posed studio photograph of the graduating class of 1900. They are identified as: 1. Abraham, David,  2. Allen, John,  3. Silverheels, Kittie,  4. Anderson, Pasquala,  5. Harris, Fannie,  6. Beale, Frank,  7. Lane, Constance,  8. Corson, Charles,  9. McCarthy, Alice,  10. Wolfe, Mary,  11. Horn, Jacob,  12. Jones, Guy,  13. Clarke, Amelia,  14. Poodry, Rose,  15. Lufkins, John,  16. Barada, Mary,  17. Miller, Artie,  18. Murdock, Wesson,  19. Kennedy, Sarah,  20. Pierce, Nettie,  21. Roberts, Charles,  22. Scholder, Joseph,  23. Seneca, Isaac,  24. Ryan, Mamie,  25. Doctor, Daisy,  26. Teeple, John,  27. Teeple, Frank,  28. Smith, Eliza,  29. Warren, John B.,  30. Welch, George,  31. Turkey, Jennie,  32. Ferris, Lillian,  33. Yupe, Susie,  34. Pierce, Bertha,  35. Muscoe, George,  36. Isaacs, Abram,  37. Cornelius, Nancy O.

Note: Although Eliza Smith's name is on the label for this photograph, the number next to her is not written next to anyone in the photograph. Other documentation also indicates that she actually graduated in 1899.

 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of two female students.

Format: Postcard (Real Photo)

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

View of the school's Gymnasium.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of school's Gymnasium building. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society