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 in the carriage shop, with another man, probably the instructor, looking on.
This image, with the caption CARRIAGE PAINTING, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 42].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: WAGON MAKING, WOODWORK SECTION.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Male students seated at tables and sewing machines in the Tailor Shop.
The Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress contains a print of this photograph: https://www.loc.gov/item/2018661659/
This image with the caption TAILOR SHOP - COAT MAKING, HAND WORK appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 39].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: SHOE SHOP - SEWING TOPS.
This image, with the caption SHOE SHOP - SEWING TOPS, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 34].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Male students posed repairing one of the school's stone fences.
This image, with the caption REPAIRING FARM FENCES, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.32].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Six male students posed in the carpenter shop.
This image, with the caption SAWING AND PLANING, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.31].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Six male and one female student posed as if working in the school's mailing department.
This image, with the caption MAIL DEPARTMENT, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.27].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of the central school campus.
This image, with the caption BAND STAND, DINING HALL, TEACHERS' QUARTERS, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 12].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
This image with the caption CAMPUS, OFFICE, AND SCHOOL BUILDINGS appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.11].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View looking down on the school grounds where male and female students are assembled in rows.
This image, with the caption CAMPUS AND STUDENT BODY, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.10].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: COLONEL PRATT.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 7].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Calistro Antonio Lugo wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sherman Chadlesome.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nikefer Shoushick.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Cusick.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: Band Stand and Girls Quarters, Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.
The handwritten note on the front reads: Juliette Smith Carlisle Pa
The postcard is addressed to Marba Marlin in Roxbourgh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Ephriam Alexander in traditional clothing, including fur coat and fur-trimmed boots.
Note: School administrative documents consistently use the spelling "Ephriam," but his name is spelled "Ephraim" in several articles in the school newspapers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Caroline Helms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Salem Moses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jonas Jackson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James E. Johnson wearing football clothing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Campeau.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Browndog wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Rose La Forge, Katie Helen Adams, Charlotte Geisdorff and three unidentified young women.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Jollie in a uniform holding a sousaphone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society