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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Members of the school band posed in front of male students in formation on the school grounds. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

The school band with instruments posed on an open bus with band director Claude Stauffer standing at the front of the vehicle. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

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

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

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

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

View of the campus from the northwest, showing the Le Tort Creek, trolley and trolley tracks on Pratt Avenue, as well as the entrace gates, Leupp Art Studio, staff residences, and the backs of buildings such as the dining hall, laundry, and boiler house. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the Guard House with perimeter fence and entrance gates in background.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View from Pratt Avenue, showing the entrance gates and school buildings.

 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

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

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

Seven female students posed holding six large laundry baskets between them on the sidewalk on the western side of the Laundry Building. 

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 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

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

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

Interior of a dining room with round tables and bentwood chairs. 

A caption on the reverse identifies it as "Carlisle Indian School Dining Room." A note in the Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging observes that the chandeliers appear to be gas converted to electric lights. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The Leupp Indian Art Studio. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

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

The caption reads: The TEPEE OF THE NEW INDIAN.  The home of an educated Nez Perce Indian near Kamiah, Idaho

The handwritten note at the top of the image reads: Paul Corbett - Ex-pupil.

This image of Paul Corbett's house appears in an article of the New York Daily-Tribune on January 23, 1910. 

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption reads: A NATIVE AMERICAN GENTLEMAN. Nez Perce alumnus of the Carlisle Indian School.  

The printed note attached to this image reads: Clipping from the N. Y. Tribune. January 23, 1910.  James G. Dickson -- ex-pupil.

This image appears in the New York Tribune on January 23, 1910.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View of the house of Zenobia Theresa Arminger, nee Garcia in Arlington, California with Arminger and two other unidentified individuals circa 1910.

The handwritten note reads: Mrs. Zenobia Garcia Arminger, Arlington, Cal Cal

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The caption on the front reads: Girl's Quarters and Gymnasium, Indian School, CARLISLE, Pa.

The postcard was addressed to Mr. Melford Whitehill, 2036 [?] Place Balt. Md.

The message reads: "Dear Melford-- Glad to say we are ok & having a pleasant time. Received Uncle Simon letter said papa would be home next week--Love to all will be home [?] 6 or 7, Mother"

 

Format: Postcard (Commercial)

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections