Images

View of the exterior of a brick building with the sign "Blacksmith and Wagon Shop," with a wagon and a white man in front and two men in the doorway. 

View of four buildings used as workshops on the school grounds.

Students working in the print shop. 

The guard house with three figures, probably two men and one boy, standing in front. One man is leaning on what appears to be a tree stump. Poles for electrical wires are visible behind the building. 

Previous cataloging assigns a date of 1897 to this image but it is not clear what this is based on.

This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902). It was also used to create postcards, see Related Images below.

Second school building with many students on the porches and lined up to enter. 

This building was built in 1888, replacing the original school building.

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.

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 Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-027 and 10-A-06. They identify Commissioner Morgan as being seated in the second row, fifth from the left. 

Portrait of male and female students posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds, with a white man standing at left. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society copy of this image states that they are "Piegan from Blackfeet Agency, Montana, entered Carlisle in November 1889 and March 1890." Previous cataloging for this copy interprets the caption as saying that these students arrived in November 1889 and that the date for this image is March 1890. 

Portrait of male and female students posed on steps of a building on the school grounds, with a white man standing at left. The caption says that these are "Piegan from Blackfeet Agency, Montana, entered Carlisle in November 1889 and March 1890." 

The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of this image says that the students arrived in November 1889 and gives a date for the image of March 1890.

Studio portrait of Susie Metoxen wearing school uniform.

Note: Handwritten caption along side of image: "Susie Metoxen, Mar. 1888." 

A student, wearing a hat and holding an axe or hatchet, standing in the courtyard of the workshops. 

The written caption says: "Andrew Brohme, an Apache Indian, 21 years old, learning to be a carpenter at the Indian School at Carlisle, Penn. June 10, 1890." 

It seems almost certain that this is student Matthew Broom, a member of the Apache Nation, who was at the school at this time and who would have been the right age, and whose student file says he was training in carpentry. 

Studio portrait of Lucy Cloud and Aggie Cloud. 

Lucy and Aggie were sisters. Lucy was the older sister and is probably seated on the left. 

A handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: Lucy and Aggie Cloud, Dec. 1890.

Studio portrait of Nellie Carey. 

Note: Descriptive information supplied by NAA indicates the date of this image as December, 1890. This may be contained on a caption that's not visible on the image.

Studio portrait of five male students (all wearing school uniforms) and five female students. Previous cataloging interprets the caption as identifying the students as Pawnee, and naming three of them as Rose Howell, Phoebe Howell, and Ann Townsend. Rose and Phoebe were both Pawnee students. There is no student named Ann Townsend so this may actually be Sam Townsend, referring to Pawnee student Samuel Townsend. 

Studio portrait of Albert White Wolf. 

Studio portrait of Otto Wells. 

Studio photo of thirteen male students. They are identified in the caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society copy of this image as being "Osage group, 1891."

A researcher at the Cumberland County Historical Society identified the students in their copy of this image as, top row, left to right: Claude Smith, Frank Penn, Amos Osage, Daniel McDougan; middle row, left to right: Elias Stanton, Harry Kophay, Richard Rusk, Ben Harrison, Fred Penn; bottom row, left to right: David Copperfield, George Conner, Amos Hamilton, Edgar McCarthy.

There is no Claude Smith in the school records from the Osage nation. Either this is Sioux student Claude Smith or it is Osage student Chester Smith.

Studio portrait of George Baker.

Studio portrait of Alice Long Pole.

Studio portrait of eleven unidentified male students and two unidentified female students. 

Previous cataloging indicates the students are from the Osage nation and provides a date of 1891 for this image. George Conner is seated right in the center of the photo, and Amos Hamilton appears standing, third male student from the left.

Studio portrait of Paul Good Bear and Joseph Spaniard. 

Studio portrait of twelve male students. Caption information for the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image states that they are from the Piegan nation and entered on March 26, 1890. 

Studio portrait of Dennison Wheelock wearing a band uniform, holding a cornet and a conductor's baton.

Studio portrait of Jane Mark.

Portrait of twenty-one students-eleven male and ten female-posed on the steps outside a brick building, probably on the school grounds. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of the image identifies them as "Crows from the Crow Agency, Montana, who entered the Carlisle Indian School in 1890."

Previous cataloging for this image interprets part of the caption scratched on the plate as giving a date of 1897.