Images

The Images section features photographs, postcards, and different types of artwork, as well as reproductions of images that appeared in newspapers, magazines, and other publications. These images all reflect the Carlisle Indian School students, facilities, and staff. Images available here are drawn from files housed at the U. S. National Archives, from collections of Carlisle Indian School materials housed at various archival repositories, and from a variety of published sources. Visitors to this website are also invited to share copies of photographs from their own personal and family collections; please contact us if you have images you would like to contribute.

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View of the Teachers' Quareters with several figures, including a male student and probably a female teacher, posed in front and on the porch. The figure on the far right may be Richard Henry Pratt. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Interior of the school chapel. The ivy decorations may indicate this photograph was taken around the holidays. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Students working in the print shop. 

Note: This image shows the left side of the print shop. NAA 73577 (see Related Images) shows the right side of the print shop. In NAA 73243 (see Related Images) prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Image of a group of young men posed on a rocky outcropping in a heavily wooded vista. 

The young men look as if they may be Carlisle students. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Group portrait of eighteen male students, dressed similarly and wearing baseball caps, one posed with a bat, taken on the school grounds. 

This is probably one of the many teams that played each other within the school. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Students working in the print shop. 

Note: This image shows the right side of the print shop. NAA 73251 (see Related Images) shows the left side of the print shop. In NAA 73243 (see Related Images) prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of the dining hall at the school, all tables filled by students. Male and female students are seated on opposite sides of the tables. There are a few adult white people standing at right. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of teacher Alice M. Seabrook.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Existing building (the South Barracks) used as the first school building. Students are posed on the balconies and lined up to enter the building. A sign attached at the near end of the building reads "Schoolrooms." 

This building was demolished in July 1888 and replaced with a new building for the same purpose.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-002, 10A-C-02, and 12-08-03. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform. 

A handwritten caption identifies this student as "Nephew of Red Cloud, Sioux." We have unable to verify which student this might have been. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

The guard house with a figure standing in the central doorway. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Students working in the print shop. 

Note: NAA 73251 (see Related Images) shows the left side of the print shop. NAA 73577 (see Related Images) shows the right side of the print shop. In this image prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop. 

This image, with the caption Printing Office - Interior, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902)  [p. 24].

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The girls' quarters with female students on the porches, with the bandstand at right and the hospital building visible between them. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of the tailor shop showing students working with an instructor.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-086a and BS-CH-047. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student. The name in the handwritten caption looks like Parnell but there is no student with a name similar to that from the time this image was taken. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a female teacher in the front of the room. One male student is standing at the blackboard next to a drawing of a horse. 

Previous cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image indicates the caption written on this image identifies this as Miss Booth's classroom. School records indicate Vicentine Booth taught at the school between 1881 and 1889.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of a Joactoras, a visiting Arapaho chief. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Studio portrait of one male student wearing school uniform with four female students.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (back row, left to right): Harriet Kyocea, Lydia Harrington, Louie Cornelius, Katie White Bird, and Julia Logan; (front row, left to right): Alice Long Pole, Jennie Black, Nellie Aspenall, and Jennie Conners.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of two unidentified male students and three unidentified female students. The seated male student has been identified as Lot Eyelash. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of students in uniforms seated at rows of desks in a school room with a white female teacher. Some students are standing in front by the chalk boards. 

The caption identifies this as Miss Fisher's class room. School records indicate Elspeth (or Effie) Fisher taught at the school from 1881 to 1892. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Four images of students and staff in the printing office. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Four identified male students. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of five unidentified male students. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of nineteen students, some in native clothing, probably taken upon arrival on the school grounds. In the back row at the far right is a male student in school uniform. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution