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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Caption THE SEWING ROOM.
In this department from twenty to sixty girls are daily employed in cutting, making and repairing all the clothing by the girls of the School, and the boys' shirts and underclothing.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 51. No prints of this image have yet been located.
Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably taken by student photographer John Leslie.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Caption: THE IRONING ROOM.
The Laundry is provided with three steam washers, stationary tubs, a centrifugal wringer, a mangle, and a steam drying room.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 50. No prints of this image have yet been located.
Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably taken by student photographer John Leslie.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Caption: PRINTING OFFICE - MAILING DEPARTMENT.
The School publishes two papers, "The Indian Helper," weekly, with a circulation of about 10,000 ; subscriptions price 10 cents a year ; and "The Red Man," monthly, at 50 cents a year, which is especially devoted to the discussion of different opinions and phases of the Indian question.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 48. No prints of this image have yet been located.
Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably taken by student photographer John Leslie.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten label on the slide reads: Laundry
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Caption: VIEW OF THE CAMPUS.
One feature of the School is the beauty of the grounds and their special adaptability to the purposes of a school. During the recreation periods the students spend many happy hours on the campus in playing croquet, tennis, ball and other games, or in quietly promenading, reading and chatting.
The photograph was taken looking south. Moving from left to right the buildings visible are: the Superintendent's Quarters, the Administration Building, the Guard House, the Academic Building, and the back of the Girls' Quarters. Male students are visible in the foreground where a tennis court is laid out, and females students can be seen in the background.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 6.
A print of this image credited to photographer John H. Andrews is in Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections. However, it is possible that the image was originally taken by student photographer John Leslie, who is credited with many of the images in the pamphlet.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Matthew Brown.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten label on the slide reads: Art Class at Work. Printed on the label is the manufacturer of the slide C. T. Milligan, 728 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 12. No prints of this image have yet been located.
Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably taken by student photographer John Leslie.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Robert Elige Crow.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten label on the slide reads: The Dining Hall
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten label on the slide reads: Gymnasium at Play
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Mary Miller, Lily Miller, and Nettie Miller, all probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten label on the slide reads: Girls Industrial Room.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Caption: ENTRANCE AVENUE.
The School adjoins the borough of Carlisle on the northeast, and is reached by a public road leading into this avenue on the School grounds.
The photograph was taken looking north, showing the Adminstration Building behind the trees and the Girl's Quarters in the distance behind the Band Stand.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 5. No prints of this image have yet been located.
Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably taken by student photographer John Leslie.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten label on the slide reads: Campus. Evening. Printed on the label is the manufacturer of the slide C. T. Milligan, 728 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA.
The photograph was taken looking south. Moving from left to right the buildings visible are: the Superintendent's Quarters, the Administration Building, the Guard House, the Academic Building, and the back of the Girls' Quarters. Male students are visible in the foreground where a tennis court is laid out, and females students can be seen in the background.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 6.
A print of this image credited to photographer John H. Andrews is in Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections. However, it is possible that the image was originally taken by student photographer John Leslie, who is credited with many of the images in the pamphlet.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Angelina Chippewa.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of six young students. Based on their clothing, they all would appear to be girls but some of the faces appear to be male. No further information is available.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of a large group of male and female students with some female teachers posed next to the south side of the Administration Building.
The name written on the reverse (Hattie Norman) is not a student, so presumably it was the name of the Carlisle resident who owned the photograph.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of sixteen male students from the 1895 football team.
In his 1951 book, Fabulous Redmen, John Steckbeck identifies the sitters as: top row (l to r), Lone Wolf, McFarland, Smith, H. Pierce, and Nori; middle row (l to r), Redwater, Cayou, Metoxen, B. Pierce, Seneca and Printup; bottom row (l to r), Unidentified, Wheelock, Hudson, Miller, and Unidentified. Interestingly, some of these names do not appear on Steckbeck's roster for the 1895 team in the same book. The CCHS print of the image does not appear to be labeled so it is not clear what Steckbeck's identification is based on, presumably another copy of the image.
See Cumberland County Historical Society image PA-CH3-093 (in Related Images) for a larger group of the same team.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
This image also appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 40.
Caption: THE CARPENTER SHOP.
One of the most useful and popular trades taught is that of carpentering. The Master Carpenter with his Indian boys is able to undertake any job of building required at the School.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of eleven male students wearing baseball uniforms with "Carlisle Indians" on the front, posed with baseball equipment outside the entrace to the gymnasium.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Group portrait of the school band posed in front of the band stand.
The Cumberland County Historical Society identifies the band leader as Dennison Wheelock.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Posed picture of the interior of the gymnasium with male students.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 32.
This image was probably originally taken by student photographer John Leslie, who is credited with many of the images in the pamphlet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Group portrait of twelve male students, some wearing uniforms with "Carlisle," "Indians," or "Y.A." on them, posed with baseball equipment.
This is probably one of the informal baseball teams organized to play other school teams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of twenty-six male students and one white man, presumably a coach or advisor--the 1895 football team.
See Cumberland County Historical Society image PA-CH1-084d (in Related Images) for a smaller group photo of the team and more information about those students who may be included.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the farmhouse on the school grounds.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society