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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![Seven Sioux students [version 1], c.1879](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2317%20%28Choate%20%2321%29%20Full%20039.jpg?itok=CmWPLPXU "Seven Sioux students [version 1], c.1879")
Seven Sioux students posed on the bandstand on the school grounds shortly after their arrival. They are: Guy (Bear Don't Scare), Amos Lone Hill, Bennett (Singer), Frank Twiss, Lizzie Glode (also known as Daisy Glode), Lucy Day, and Mary (Lulu) Bridgeman.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of Stephen Murray (Makes Trouble in Front), Geoffrey Chips (Runs in the Clouds), Grace Cook (Crockery Face), and Nellie (Yellow Lodge) posed in front of one of the school buildings.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a a stereograph of this image in their collections (SG03-12).
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of nine Sioux students posed next to one of the school buildings. The students are Edward Little (Behind), James (White Man), George Hollow Horned Bear (Little Man), George Hollow Horned Bear (Little Man), Bernard (Hawk Charging Daylight), David (Kills Without Warning), Horace (White Whirlwind), Hope Blue Teeth, Ida (Shoes), and Stella Berht (White Mare).
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
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
![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 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
View of the Chapel being built in December of 1879.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a straw hat and a bandana. Previous cataloging interprets a date of 1880 in the caption.
Note: This appears to be a photograph of a photograph. The original photograph appears to be of a Carlisle student taken in Choate's studio.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photograph, Reproduction
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
![Justine La Framboise [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0050.jpg?itok=Q7hnA2he "Justine La Framboise [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Justine La Framboise.
The handwritten note reads: Justine. The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: No 48 Justine La Framboise from Sisseton Agency Dakota
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Five young male Sioux students [version 3], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/0321.f.0006_alt.jpg?itok=c6FZLK3g "Five young male Sioux students [version 3], c.1880")
Studio portrait of (back row, left to right): David (Kills Without Wounding), Nathan (Ear), Pollock Spotted Tail; and (front row, left to right): Marshall (Marshall Bad Milk), and Hugh (Running Horse). All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
![Benjamin Thomas, Mary Perry, and John Menual Chaves [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch052.jpg?itok=sAtXQIrr "Benjamin Thomas, Mary Perry, and John Menual Chaves [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Benjamin Thomas (standing at left), Mary Perry (seated in center), and John Menual Chaves (standing at right). The boys are both wearing school uniforms. Perry is in a school-issued print dress.
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
Posed portrait of eight female students, presumably kitchen staff, and one staff member in the dining room with set tables.
Note: Three of these students are identified as Eva Pickard, Anna Laura, and Anna Raven.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two men in native clothing, probably visiting chiefs, and a third wearing a suit.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Luther Standing Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution