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 SUSAN LONGSTRETH LITERARY SOCIETY.
This society, bearing the name of one of the first and most honored friends of the School, has existed for more than ten years. Including, as it does, the best character and talent from some 300 girls, with a comfortable and tastefully decorated room for its meetings, it is an influence for good, mentally and morally, which cannot well be measured. All the societies emulate each other in furnishing the School most pleasing entertainments.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 57. 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 SHOE SHOP.
makes all the shoes used by the pupils except such as are bought from their own unds and kept for Sunday best. Since the beginning of the School not a pair of shoes or boots has been sent off the premises to be repaired.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 41. 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
A collage of four photographs.
Caption: INDIAN GIRLS IN THE COUNTRY.
illustrates the home life and occupations of the girls during their Summer outing; also a public school attended by a number girls during the Winter.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 61.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Collage of four photographs.
Caption: SOME CARLISLE INDIAN GIRLS IN THEIR COUNTRY HOMES.
The socially elevating side of the outing is shown by the refined homes and families into which the pupils are received.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 62.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Frank Campeau and Matthew Johnson (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View looking north of what is presumably the entire student body assembled in neat rows on the central campus. Groups of spectators, probably teachers and staff, are standing or sitting around the nearby buildings.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
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
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
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
View of the farmhouse on the school grounds.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
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 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
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
View of the YMCA Building.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Twenty members of the school band, posed in groups on a rocky hill. They have their instruments but are not in uniform.
Dated March 1895.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of eleven male students, three Native American men, and one white man. The caption identifies them as from the Osage nation.
A researcher gave the Cumberland County Historical Society partial identifications for the sitters in this photo. According to this information, back row, left to right: Unidentified, Unidentified, Ben Harrison, Elias Stanton, Amos Osage, and Harry Kohpay; middle row, left to right: Black Dog, Fred Penn, Edgar McCarthy, William Connor, Peter Big Heart, and Unidentified; bottom row, left to right: Ernest Roe, Richard Rusk, and George Conner.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Black Dog, an Osage chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of a group of unidentified male and female students, dressed formally, posed in front the brick archway of the gymnasium building.
Previous cataloging indicates the students are from the Cherokee nation and provides a date of March 1895.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Black Dog, an Osage chief, with two unidentified male students.
Identification of Black Dog is based on comparison with other images. No caption information is available. Student newspapers reported that Black Dog visited the school for commenencement in March 1895, therefore this image has been assigned that date.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Johnson Adams.
A note on the back of the photo provides a date of March 18, 1895 and identifies the photographer as John H. Andrews, Carlisle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Johnson Adams.
Note: This image is a cropped version of CCHS 13-31-01. That image has a date of March 18, 1895 provided on the reverse and the photographer is identified as John H. Andrews.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society