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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Richard Henry Pratt posed seated at his desk holding a document.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Photograph of a photograph of former student Stephen Reuben in a feathered headess with a horse. The photograph is lableled: "Stephen Reuben, Carlisle Student, 4th of July Celebration, Spalding Idaho."
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of seventeen male students in uniform posed with one white man.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
School laundry building with a trolley car parked alongside it. Four trolley conductors are standing beside the car.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of five female students and two male students (in uniform) posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging for this image identifies them as "teachers," so they may be student teachers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of five male students and four female students posed on the steps of the court house (now known as the Old Court House) with one white man and one white woman, presumably teachers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A large group of male and female students, some in uniform, posed with at least two white women, presumably teachers, on the steps of a school building. One male student is inside the building looking out a window.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing glasses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio photograph of an unidentified male student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna Mason Pratt, Richard Henry Pratt's wife.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
An empty schoolroom with a teacher's desk and students desks. This is identified in a label as a "Normal School Room."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of a corner of a room of a female student. A table or desk is covered with many framed photographs. There is a framed photograph of the school band hanging above the desk and there's another photograph, probably also of Carlisle students, sitting on a chair.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the rear of the Industrial Workshop Building, with a few male students in the foreground.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed working at tables in the wagonmaking shop.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed working at machines and standing at tables in the shoe shop.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male and female students posed in a wood working classroom with a white female teacher. On the blackboard at the back of the room the word "Sloyd" is visible, indicating that this was a Sloyd classroom.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Younger male and female students posed sitting at desks in what a label identifies as a "Normal Room."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of a large group of male and female students with white teachers. The Cumberland County Historical Society identifies this as the school's choir.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A view of the central campus with female students in the background and a young male student in the foreground.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's description states the label on this image is "Girls at Play."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Large group of male students lined up both in front of and behind the school's fire engine on a path with the Girls' Quarters in the background. Female students are standing on the lawn and on the porches of the building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed standing at ironing boards in a room with a large cast iron stove in the center, holding irons, and drying racks.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Interior of school dining room with tables set for a meal. Female student workers are standing at the ends of the tables around the perimeter of the room.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society