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Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. – Antique Wall Art

Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. — historic photograph
Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.

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The caption card's subject tags point to music, bands, and a bandstand, so this view likely records the musical life of the school rather than its classrooms. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, founded in Pennsylvania in 1879 by Army officer Richard Henry Pratt, was a federal boarding school that took in Native American children from many tribes and pressed them to adopt English, Christian customs, and trades. Bands were a visible part of that routine, performing for visitors and at school events. The cyanotype process gives the print its blue tone, but the card records no date, so the exact year is unknown.

Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Music...--Bandstands; Music...--Bands; Pa.; Ind. & white man--Educat.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,118 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129756

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