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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Male student posed standing on a horse-drawn wagon with hay outside two barns, with cows in an enclosure next to one of the barns.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students, backs to the photographer, posed on milking stools, milking a row of cows in a barn.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Several cows eating hay beside their stalls in a barn.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View looking down the center of a barn with rows of cows in stalls on either side.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed standing and ironing in a large open room.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
CCHS has two glass plate negatives of this image: 00314A#14 and 00314A#68.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male and female students posed working at desks and some working with fabric on a vertical loom. On a bulletin board and black board are examples of Native-style design motifs.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View showing Girls' Quarters, the Band Stand, and the Dining Hall with snow-covered grounds.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed seated working at sewing machines, with a few posed standing at work tables, and one fitting a dress on another student in the front of the room.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption on the front of the postcard reads: BOYS AT HEAVY GYMNASTICS AT INDIAN SCHOOL Carlisle, Pa.
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
There is no caption on the front of this postcard nor has anyone written something on the reverse side.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption of this postcard reads: BOYS AT HEAVY GYMNASTICS AT INDIAN SCHOOL Carlisle, Pa
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
There is no caption on the front of this postcard, which is from a collection of materials belonging to Naomi Greensky.
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Postcard photo of Naomi Greensky.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
There is no caption on the front of this postcard, and the back is completely blank. The right end gives the appearance of possibly having been folded and torn along a crease, perhaps having been half of a larger panoramic image.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
There is no printed caption on the front of the postcard. Someone has written, by hand, the words Indian Boy at Carlisle Pa. There is also an address on the front: "Van P. Ault, Wilmerding, Pa. Box 266."
On the back the card has been addressed to "W. H. Seward, Windsor N. Y., Brown Co."
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
A view taken in the winter looking at the far northwestern part of the school grounds, showing many people standing on the bridge over the Letort Creek and many people skating on the frozen pond created by damming the creek.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two female students posed seated at a desk and at a table, and another female student standing next to the desk, at one end of the sewing room. Nearby is a table with piles of printed materials, probably patterns or reference works.
The Cumberland County Historical assigned this photograph the title "Dress Designing at the Carlisle Indian School."
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption on the front reads: GYMNASIUM, ALL INDIANS EXCEPT INSTRUCTOR Carlisle, Pa.
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write a message and where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Female students posed seated working at sewing machines, with a few posed standing at work tables.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed in the Sewing Room, some fitting dresses, some standing at tables, others seated at sewing machines.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed standing wearing dresses while others work to fit the dresses for them. The room is furnished with a dress form and a long mirror as well as the tables and chairs being used by the students.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A view of fields with male and female students posed working.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the northwestern side of the school campus, taken from the far side of the bridge over the Letort Creek, showing Pratt Avenue with entrance gates, the Leupp Art Studio, staff houses, and the back of the Dining Hall.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A view of the southwestern part of the school grounds with male and female students posed working in a field. Various school buildings including the Boiler House can be seen in the background.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the back of the school barn and out buildings, with a view of the front of the farmhouse.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society