Cumberland County Historical Society

Young students standing next to their desks in a classroom. 

Cataloging for this image from the Cumberland County Historical Society speculates that they are learning "a finger song." 

In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston to document the school at Carlisle for an…

Younger male and female students posed in the Sloyd Classroom. 

Sloyd is a system of handicraft-based education thought to build character and encourage moral behavior, greater intelligence, and industriousness.  

In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer…

Portrait of student Nikefer Shoushick.  

Studio portrait of Calistro Antonio Lugo wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Caroline Helms.

Studio portrait of Charles Cusick. 

A formal portrait of the graduating class of 1902, apparently with separate images of students not present when it was taken inserted later. The students are identified as: 1. Fielder, Isaac,  2. Lewis, Anna,  3. Mooney, Thomas,  4. Baird, Genus,  5. Bender, Charles,  6. Jamison, Elnora,  7. Coleman, Charles,…

A herd of cows in an enclosure next to the school barn. 

Studio portrait of Ephriam Alexander in traditional clothing, including fur coat and fur-trimmed boots. 

Note: School administrative documents consistently use the spelling "Ephriam," but his name is spelled "Ephraim" in several articles in the school newspapers.

Studio portrait of Frank Campeau.

Studio portrait of Rose La Forge (back, center), Katie Helen Adams, Charlotte Geisdorff (down front), and three other young women. A family member has identified Pelagie Nash (second from the right, over Charlotte's left shoulder).

View of the school's Harness Shop. 

Group portrait of the school band posed in front of the band stand. James Riley Wheelock, the band director, is standing in the center with the baton.

View of the interior of the school's laundry building.

A view of the school's tin shop. 

Studio portrait of James Browndog wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Jonas Jackson.

Studio portrait of Nikefer Shoushick. 

View of the school's Printing Shop. 

Studio portrait of Salem Moses.

Studio portrait of Sherman Chadlesome.

Sewing instructor Elizabeth Searight posed outdoors with twelve female students wearing school uniforms. 

Searight worked at the school from roughtly 1901 to 1915. 

Twelve female students wearing dark uniforms with "1903" on the front and baseball-style caps. They are posed in a semicircle, the three in the middle with their feet on a basketball with "1903" written on it. 

Studio portrait of John Wizi, Thomas Saul, and Alfred Saul. All are wearing dark-colored turtleneck sweaters and dark blazers. 

Studio portrait of Lillie Cornelius.