Images

Portrait of the Indian School band posed on the school grounds. The date October 1892 is part of the caption written on the plate. 

Portrait of thirty-one female students, with one white woman in the center, posed in front of the flag pole on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the What-so-ever Circle, the white woman as Miss Shaffner, and provides a date of October 1892.

The What-So-Evers were a "circle" or a subgroup of the female student group the King's Daughters. Miss Lillie Ruth Shaffner was a teacher at the school in 1892 and was identified in the school newspapers as the leader of the What-So-Evers.

Portrait of twenty-two female students, with one white teacher in center of the group, posed on the school grounds. One student in the front row is holding a cat.

The caption identifies them as the student group the King's Daughters Circle and also as the Wayside Gleaners. The school newspapers describe that the student group the King's Daughters, had four subgroups or "circles." One of them was known as the Wayside Gleaners. The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image identifies the white woman as Mrs. Dixon, who the school paper confirms was chosen as the "lead" of the Wayside Gleaners. She was the wife of school physician C. Dixon from 1891 to 1892. That copy of the image also has the date October 1892. 

Portrait of twenty-two female students, with one white teacher in center of the group, posed on the school grounds. One student in the front row is holding a cat.

The caption identifies them as the student group the King's Daughters Circle and also as the Wayside Gleaners. The school newspapers describe that the student group the King's Daughters, had four subgroups or "circles." One of them was known as the Wayside Gleaners. The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image identifies the white woman as Mrs. Dixon, who the school paper confirms was chosen as the "lead" of the Wayside Gleaners. She was the wife of school physician C. Dixon from 1891 to 1892. That copy of the image also has the date October 1892. 

Portrait of thirty-one female students, with one white woman in the center, posed in front of the flag pole on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the What-so-ever Circle. The National Anthrpological Archives copy of this image also identifies the name of the group, and also the white woman as Miss Shaffner, and provides a date of October 1892. 

The What-So-Evers were a "circle" or a subgroup of the female student group the King's Daughters. Miss Lillie Ruth Shaffner was a teacher at the school in 1892 and was identified in the school newspapers as the leader of the What-So-Evers. 

Portrait of eighteen female students, with one white woman in center, posed on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the King's Daughters and also as the Sunshine Scatters. The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of the image also identifies them as the Sunshine Scatters, but also names the white woman as Miss. Fisher and provides a date of October 1892. 

The school newspapers say that the student group the King's Daughters had four subgroups or "circles," and that one of them was the Sunshine Scatterers. Miss Effie (or Elspeth) Fisher was a employee of the school from 1881 to 1892, and would have been the "lead" of this circle. 

Portrait of a large group of female student with one white teacher in the center posed in front of the flagpole on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the Endeavor Literary Society and dates the photo to October 1892. 

Studio portrait of Cynthia Webster. 

Studio portrait of Nellie Barada. 

Studio portrait of eleven unidentified female students. The caption identifies them as The What-So-Ever circle.

The What-So-Evers were a "circle" or a subgroup of the female student group the King's Daughters. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-085 and 10-B-22. Caption on the back of the latter copy says that the photograph was taken for the leader of the group, Miss Shaffner. 

Studio portrait of eleven students, six male students and five female students, identified in the caption as being the "Wood-cutting class." 

The wood cutting class is referenced in the school paper in January 1893. 

Studio portrait of an unidentified man. 

Studio portrait of Sarah Kennedy (left), Helen Patterson (right), and Ely Parker (center).

Portrait of fifteen female students and seventeen male students with two white female teachers posed on the bandstand on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the "School Choir, 1893."  

Studio portrait of seventeen male students, some wearing uniforms, some not. The caption identifies them as from the Sioux nation. 

Studio portrait of Fred Penn wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of two small children with an infant. There is a caption written at a later date, probably by Cumberland County Historical Society staff, that identifies them as the children of Indian School staff members (and former students) Richard Davis and Nellie Aspenall Davis. That makes the two small children Richenda and Mary Davis, who also appear in other photographs. The infant is probably Esther Davis, who was born in 1892.

Richenda and Mary were not enrolled as students.

Studio portrait of Bemus Pierce.

Studio portrait of Louisa Pinkham wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of five female students and six male students identified in the caption as being the wood cutting class. 

The school newspaper referenced the wood cutting class in January 1893. 

Studio portrait of seventeen male students, some wearing school uniforms. The caption for this image identifies them as being from the Pine Ridge reservation. The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society copy identifies them as being from the Sioux nation and provides a date of 1893. 

Studio portrait of five male and one female students, the graduating class of 1893. 

They are, back row, standing, left to right: Malcolm Clark, Fred Big Horse, Arthur Johnson; front row, sitting, left to right: John Baptiste, Emily Peake, John G. Morrison.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 20.

 The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH3-002, 11-A-03 and 15-26-01.  

Studio portrait of Melinda Porter.

Studio portrait of Antoine Donnell.

Studio portrait of Howard Gansworth, Leander Gansworth, Alberta Gansworth, and Willard Gansworth.