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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View of a sidewalk on campus with the Academic Building on the left and the rear section of the Teachers's Quarters on the right.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students and instructor working in the Blacksmith Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-125 and 14B-11-02) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#22). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View looking south with the Academic Building on the right, the Guard House on the left and the Doctor's House visible in background in the gap between.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A panoramic photo postcard of the school grounds, taken from the central campus looking north.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this postcard. The front and reverse images posted here are from different cards.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the east end of the Academic Building, with many trees in front.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the front of the Girls' Quarters, showing the trees, benches, and paths of the central campus.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the side of the Girls' Quarters, taken from the central campus.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the side of the Girls' Quarters, taken from the road in front of the Laundry.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A white female nurse and a female student nurse attend three female student patients in beds in a hospital ward. Another female student, apparently a visitor, sits in a chair beside of the beds.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A white female nurse and a female student nurse attend two female students in beds on the sleeping porch of the school hospital.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two white male doctors, a white female nurse, and a female student nurse attend two male students in beds on the sleeping porch of the school hospital.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two white male doctors, one white female nurse and a female student nurse attending a patient in a room in the school hospital.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Three female student nurses attend a male student patient in a ward in the school hospital.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A white male doctor and two nurses attend a patient on a table in the operating room of the school hospital.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students posed shoeing a horse in the Blacksmith Shop.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image; two are prints (PA-CH3-126 and 14B-11-04) and one is a glass plate negative (00314A#60). It was previously attributed to the photographer A. A. Line, but because the two prints are in collections associated with the school's photographer Everett Strong, we believe it was taken by Strong. Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View showing the Hospital in the distance with the Doctor's House on the left and one of the Staff Housing buildings on the right.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View taken at an angle of the Large Boys' Quarters.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of one end of the Small Boys's Quarters.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the central campus, looking toward the side of the Girls' Quarters, the Gymnasium with the attached low building for the bowling alley, the Large Boys' Quarters and the Athletic Quarters. In the grass, nets have been set up and male students are holding rackets.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View taken looking north, with some students in front of the Girls' Quarters, the Large Boys' Quarters and the Athletic Quarters visible in the distance.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View taken looking south, showing the corner of the Teachers' Quarters, with the Academic Building and the Guard House in the distance. Several groups of people are standing on the sidewalks on the grounds.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Older and younger female students with a dog posed on the lawn of the central campus. Visible behind them, from left to right, are the Athletic Quarters, the Disciplinarian's Quarters, the Small Boys' Quarters and the Assistant Superintendent's Quarters.
Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note reads: Mr & Mrs King with their colts.
Ellen and Charles King with four colts and a dog.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: J. H. Lonestar. Shell Lake, Wis.
View of John H. Lonestar with his wife, Rebecca Hart Lonestar, and his two children around 1909.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student in school uniform.
The postcard was produced and marketed by local photographer M. J. Hoover.
Format: Postcard (Commercial), Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections