Cumberland County Historical Society

A corner of a room set up as a store with products, including prominently displayed Uneeda Biscuits from the National Biscuit Company, and scales and a roll on a glass-topped counter. There are banners and penants hanging on the wall.  

Studio portrait of George Gardner wearing football uniform.

Six female students seated around the flag pole on the school grounds, with a woman identified as Blanche Dum, their Sunday school teacher from the Allison Methodist Church. 

Studio portrait of a large group of seated and standing male and female students, identified as the graduating class of 1907. They are identified in a label attached below the photo.

Studio portrait of Howard Jones. 

Note: This student was previously identified as Joe Howard. However, there is no known student by that name. We believe it to be Howard Jones.

Studio portrait of Richard Kesetta wearing uniform. 

Note: Caption on image reads: Richard Kissitti / Age 4 years / Tribe Apache / Baby of the Indian School, Carlisle, pa.

Studio portrait of Richard Kesetta wearing uniform. 

Caption on image: Richard Kissitti / Tribe Apache / Carlisle's Baby 

Six female students standing posed in a row on the school grounds. 

In a related photo they are identified as a Sunday school class under instruction by the Allison Methodist Church in Carlisle. 

Studio of William Dietz, also known as Lone Star Dietz.

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption: A Staunch and A Most Sincere Friend Of The Red Race . . . . Major Wm. A. Mercer Held In The Highest Esteem In the Heart Of The Red Man. 

Female students and student nurses posed in a hospital room with beds and other furnishings. 

Studio portrait of a large group of seated and standing male and female students, identified as the graduating class of 1908. They are identified in a label attached below the photo.

View of the Gymnasium after the addition of the bowling alley, showing the connection to the Girls' Quarters.

Studio portrait of Manus Screamer and Nannie Saunooke. Screamer is wearing a uniform. They were married at the school in 1908 and this photo may have been taken at that time.

A typed label on the reverse of the image identifies it as an "'open air' summer trolley" on Pratt Avenue. The Leupp Art Studio is visible in the background. 

Two white men, presumably doctors, and six women, presumably nurses or nursing staff, standing on the porch and steps of the hospital. Five of the women are wearing nursing uniforms. One, not so dressed, is Native American. 

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption: One Of The Chief Causes Of The Government Inspection Into Corrupted Management Of Carlisle's Appropriations. 

What Was The Outcome of That Gov. Inspection? This "Grafter" Was Fired . . . 

Photo of Moses Friedman, a native of Cincinnati…

A white male doctor, a white female nurse, two female and one male student nurses are posed in an operating room with a male student patient. 

A white male doctor, a white female nurse, two female and one male student nurses are posed in an operating room with a male student patient. 

A white male doctor, a white female nurse, two female and one male student nurses are posed in an operating room with a male student patient. 

View of the east end of the Academic Building, with many trees in front. 

Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909. 

View of the Adminstration Building, with leafy trees and shrubs in front, and with a boy on the front staircase. 

Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909. 

View of a corner of the central campus with the Athletic Quarters at left and the Disciplinarian's Quarters at right. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies "fire hydrants in the foreground and a hand-operated water pump from an underground cistern at left." 

Everett Strong…

View of the Boiler House with a water tower behind it. A group of male students in standing in front, and the Store House can be seen in the background. 

Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909. 

A view of the central campus, obscured by tree branches. This photograph was probably taken from the Academic Building. 

Everett Strong was a photographer employed by the school starting in May 1908; he had left before December 1909.