Arrival Group Photographs

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at right. 

This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).

The…

Group portrait of first male students at the school from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies. They arrived on October 6, 1879. Richard Henry Pratt is standing at far left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at far right. 

The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center also has a print of this image.

A group of twenty-nine male students and eight female students posed in front of one of the school buildings, identified as "'Apache Prisoners' as they arrived at the Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa., from Fort Marion, Florida. Nov. 4/1886." There are three white men standing on the porch behind the group. The one in the center is…

Group of eleven Apache students, identified as having just arrived from Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, on November 4, 1886.