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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Outdoor portrait of Marshall Bad Milk (Little Wolf), Alvan (One That Kills Horse), Austin Holy Bear (Wind Blows), and Horace (White Whirlwind) posed in front of the bandstand on the school grounds.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Five Sioux students [version 1], c.1879](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2321%20%28Choate%20%2326%29%20Full%20019.jpg?itok=r4Bny3lk "Five Sioux students [version 1], c.1879")
Group of five Sioux students posed on the bandstand on the school grounds. They are Conrad (Thunder), Gilbert (Short Leg), Arnold (Runs After the Moon), Dora (Her Pipe), and Ruth (Looking Woman).
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of one female and three male students in front of a building on the school grounds. Annotations on the image state they they were relatives of Black Crow. Based on that information they are probably Emma (Plenty Aunt), Rufus (Strikes the Enemy), Theron Two Strike, and Arthur Two Strike.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of Henry Thigh, Frank Twiss, Morgan (Young Bird), and Rebecca Big Star posed on the steps of a building, presumably on the school grounds.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society had previously identified the female sitter as Maud (Little Girl) based on interpretation of the caption. However, since Maud was seventeen years old on arrival, it seems more likely that this is Rebecca Big Star.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of Samuel High Bear, Herbert (Yellow Sack), Maurice (Yellow Hair), and Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) posed on the bandstand on the school grounds.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of George Walker, John Renville, Edward Upright, Nancy Renville, and Justine La Framboise posed on the bandstand on the school grounds.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Cecil (Red Man), Walter Bullman, Zonie McKenzie, and Ruth (Looking Woman) [version 2], c.1879](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_sg0315.jpg?itok=sYuDNrnP "Cecil (Red Man), Walter Bullman, Zonie McKenzie, and Ruth (Looking Woman) [version 2], c.1879")
Portrait of Cecil (Red Man), Walter Bullman, Zonie McKenzie, and Ruth (Looking Woman) posed on the staircase of the bandstand on the school grounds.
Format: Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
This caption reads: FIRST SIOUX GIRLS – AS THEY CAME TO CARLISLE OCT. 6TH, 1879.
This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
This stereoscope shows the first group of women and girls to be enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School, arriving from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux Reservations in October 1879.
Format: Stereograph
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: FIRST PARTY EIGHTY TWO SIOUX ARRIVED AT CARLISLE OCT. 6, 1879.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School Carlisle, PA: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Portrait of White Bear, Zonkeuh, Koba, Henry Roman Nose, Little Chief, Charles Oheltoint, Etadleuh Doanmoe, and White Man posed on the grounds of the school.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society notes the identification of these people is based on a copy of the image posted for sale on eBay. That copy was identitied as "No. 27, Flordida Boys."
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Thomas Carlisle and Bob Bent [version 1], c.1879](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74309.jpg?itok=g68s9gMw "Thomas Carlisle and Bob Bent [version 1], c.1879")
Studio portrait of Thomas Carlisle, seated, in school uniform, and Bob Bent, an interpreter, standing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Thomas Carlisle and Bob Bent [version 2], c.1879](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_029a.jpg?itok=AjN3-lXE "Thomas Carlisle and Bob Bent [version 2], c.1879")
Studio portrait of Thomas Carlisle wearing school uniform, seated, and Bob Bent, an interpreter, standing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Fanny and Dora both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Five chiefs and two interpreters [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch089.jpg?itok=DkDAqStR "Five chiefs and two interpreters [version 2], c.1880")
Portrait of chiefs Brother-to-All, Like the Bear, Poor Wolf, Son-of-the-Star, and American Horse posed with interpreters John Bridgeman and John Smith, standing in front of the bandstand on the school grounds.
Note: The other version of this image (Related Images), is the uncropped version which also has Richard Henry Pratt in the background.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Five Sioux girls [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_023a.jpg?itok=y6shVv1W "Five Sioux girls [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Ruth (Looking Woman), Hattie Long Wolf, Anna Laura, Grace Cook, and Stella Berht.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: CS-CH-066, PA-CH1-023a, and 10-B-12.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Chief Big Horse and his son, Hubbell Big Horse. Chief Big Horse wears traditional clothes and Hubbell is in a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Left Hand and his son, U.S. Grant (Grant Left Hand) [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_064a.jpg?itok=dv6UN2Tv "Left Hand and his son, U.S. Grant (Grant Left Hand) [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Left Hand, an Arapaho chief, with his son, U.S. Grant also known as Grant Left Hand.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-064a and CS-CH-044.1-.3.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Wounded Yellow Robe, Chauncey Yellow Robe, and Henry Standing Bear [version 1] [after], 1886](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73420.jpg?itok=fmdEZGnV "Wounded Yellow Robe, Chauncey Yellow Robe, and Henry Standing Bear [version 1] [after], 1886")
Studio portrait of Wounded Yellow Robe (also known as Richard Yellow Robe), Chauncey Yellow Robe (also known as Timber Yellow Robe), and Henry Standing Bear, all wearing school uniforms.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of the print photo. According to their information, Chauncey Yellow robe is seated at left, Henry Standing Bear is standing in the middle, and Wounded Yellow Robe is seated at right.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Walter Matches [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_034a.jpg?itok=-5Hn9BS1 "Walter Matches [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Walter Matches.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-034a and CS-CH-015.1-.2.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Five Sioux girls [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74321.jpg?itok=ugh13bmd "Five Sioux girls [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Ruth (Looking Woman), Hattie Long Wolf, Anna Laura, Grace Cook, and Stella Berht.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Five male Sioux students [version 1], 1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73380.jpg?itok=SYKqPX0j "Five male Sioux students [version 1], 1880")
Studio portrait of Bernard (Hawk Charging Daylight) (standing at left), Horace (Horse) (standing at right), Reuben Quick Bear (Kills the Enemy) (seated at left), John Renville (seated at center), and Rufus (Strikes the Enemy) (seated at right). All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lucy Black Shortnose, Ella Hippy, Fanny (Knife Holder), Mabel Doanmoe, and Laura Doanmoe [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73821.jpg?itok=ef-u-KiO "Lucy Black Shortnose, Ella Hippy, Fanny (Knife Holder), Mabel Doanmoe, and Laura Doanmoe [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose, Ella Hippy, Fanny (Knife Holder), Mabel Doanmoe, and Laura Doanmoe.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Iron Wing, a Sioux chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-011b and CS-CH-036.1-.3.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society