Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center

The Carlisle Indian School Project is a database built by Dickinson College with resources related to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and the students that were enrolled there. The school, which was founded by Richard Henry Pratt and operated between 1879 and 1918, was the first of its kind and served as a model for other non-reservation boarding schools across the country. The completion of the project is ongoing, and resources from several repositories are being added as they are digitized, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections, the Cumberland County Historical Society, and the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C. Materials found on the site include individual student files, images, and printed materials published by the school. This database is meant to be equally useful for both scholars and genealogists.