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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Posed group of a doctor, staff nurse, and student nurses demonstrating how to use ether on a patient. This image was taken in the operating suite of the newer school hospital, construction of which was completed in 1908.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
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
Two female students posed sitting at a table in a student bedroom.
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
Three female students posed sitting around a table in a student's bedroom.
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
Three female students working, bending over at sinks, with other female students and white female instructor posed standing, in the school's Laundry.
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
View showing Girls' Quarters, the Band Stand, and the Dining Hall with snow-covered grounds.
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
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
Male students posed in one of the Industrial Shops, identified by the Historical Society as the Machine Shop.
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 posed in one of the Industrial Shops, identified by the Historical Society as the Machine Shop.
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 in one of the industrial shops, identifed by the Historical Society as the Plumbing and Heating Training Shop.
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 posed sitting and standing at machines in the Printing Office.
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 interior of the Print Shop with male students working, standing at tables, setting up type.
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 school's wood shop with students standing working at 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
View of the boiler room with students and staff at work.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the interior of the dairy barn with a row of cows in their stalls at left, eating big piles of hay.
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
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
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
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
Snapshot of four white women, presumably school employees, leaning against a low wall, two holding opened umbrellas.
They appear to be seated in the area on the north side of the Leupp Art Studio, with the view behind them of the fields to the north of the school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
The caption reads: ENTRANCE WAY TO THE CARLISLE SCHOOL GROUNDS AND CAMPUS
This image appears in Red Man vol. 2, no. 10 (June 1910): 23.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
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