Images

Studio portrait of Rosa Bourassa. A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Rose Baunassa.

Studio portrait of Co-zed (Below). 

Studio portrait of Co-zed (Below). 

Handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Below Cozed.

Studio portrait of Daniel Jackson.

Studio portrait of Esther Johnson.

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student in a school uniform. 

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student. 

Studio portrait of Esther Johnson.

Studio portrait of Eliza Johnson. 

Studio portrait of Luther Dah-hah. 

A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Luther Dah-hah. 

Portrait of thirteen unidentified male students and twelve unidentified female students dressed formally and posed on the school grounds. 

Studio portrait of Mary Johnson.

Note: There are two students named Mary Johnson. This is probably the Mary Johnson from the Stockbridge nation who arrived in 1888 when she was 15 years old and departed in 1892. The other Mary Johnson was from the Onondaga nation, arrived in November 1883 and departed in June 1884. No age was given for her.  

Studio portrait of Peter Cornelius wearing a uniform and holding a cornet. 

Studio portrait of Benjamin Doxtator (seated at left) and Hugh James (standing at right).

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.

Studio portrait of Louis Caswell (left) and Benjamin Caswell (right).  

Studio portrait of teacher Marianna Burgess. 

Studio portrait of teacher Alice M. Seabrook. 

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student. 

Studio portrait of two unidentified female students. 

Portrait of ten unidentified male students and thirteen unidentified female students posed with two white women, presumably teachers, on the steps outside a brick building. 

Group portrait of ten male students, nine in baseball uniforms with "Indians" on the front, some holding bats. One student is posed in the center, not in uniform.

Studio portrait of an infant posed in a cradleboard. 

This is a photograph of a photograph with the handwritten caption "Kiowa Pappoose." This image may have been taken of page 34 of Album 2 of the "Indian School Albums" now in the collection of the Cumberland County Historical Society (PA-CH2-034b), or it may have been taken before the print was added to the album. 

This photograph was originally taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston, probably at the Hampton Institute in 1899 when Johnston was there taking photographs of the Native American students. The image in the album may be a copy of the Johnston image, included among the images of Carlisle students, or it may be a copy made by Choate of the Johnston image, copied here again by Choate. 

Version 2 of this image, linked to in Related Images, is a print produced by Choate's studio. There is no indication that Choate credited Johnston for the original image. This was one of the photographs offered as a premium beginning in 1890 to subscribers of the school's Indian Helper newspaper, as were other photographs produced by (the others originally taken by) Choate. Those advertisements refer to this image as "pretty faced pappoose in Indian cradle."

Copies of the Johnston image are held by the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98519390/) and the Museum of Modern Art (https://www.moma.org/collection/works/57142). 

Note: The National Anthropological Archives has two different negatives, both images of the same print with the handwritten caption. They are NAA 73477 (NAA INV 06825100) and NAA 73527 (NAA INV  06830100). 

Portrait of T.J. Morgan, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, posed with Richard Henry Pratt and the school's teachers on the school grounds. 

The school newspapers reported a visited by Morgan to the school in February of 1890. It's possible that this photograph was taken at that time although the weather does not appear very wintry. 

The people and the way they are posed is almost identical to another sitting of this group in images: PA-CH2-027 and 10-A-06.