Image Collection
The Image Collection 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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The printed description on the reverse side reads: 87. 2 Shoshonee and 13 Northern Arapahoe children as they arrived.
This image features a group of Northern Arapaho and Shoshone children who arrived at Carlisle on March 11, 1881.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Ellis Childers wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Silas Childers wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: Noted Indian Chiefs.
The printed note on the reverse side reads: NOTED INDIAN CHIEFS Who have visited the Indian Training School, Carlisle, Pa.
1. Spotted Tail, Sioux Chief, Rosebud Agency, Dakota.
2. Iron Wing, Sioux Chief, Rosebud Agency, Dakota.
3. American Horse, Sioux Chief, Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota.
4. Red Shirt, Sioux Chief, Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota.
5. White Eagle, Ponca Chief, Indian Territory.
6. Standing Buffalo, Ponca Chief, Indian Territory.
7. Poor Wolf, Mandan Chief, Fort Berthold, Dakota.
8. Son of the Star. Arickaree Chief, Fort Berthold, Dakota.
9. White Man, Apache Chief, Indian Territory.
10. Stumbling Bear, Kiowa Chief, Indian Territory.
11. Tso-de-ar-ko, Wichita Chief, Indian Territory.
12. Big Horse, Cheyenne Chief, Indian Territory.
13. Bob Tail, Cheyenne Chief, Indian Territory.
14. Man-on-the-Cloud, Cheyenne, Indian Territory.
15. Mad Wolf, Cheyenne, Indian Territory.
16. Little Raven, Arapahoe Chief, Indian Territory.
17. Yellow Bear, Arapahoe Chief, Indian Territory.
18. Left Hand, Arapahoe Chief, Indian Territory.
19. Ouray, Ute Chief, Colorado.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Mary R. Hyde, a teacher, and Grace Cook (Sioux nation). Grace is in non-native clothing. The Cumberland County Historical Society dates this image to July 1881, presumably because of an inscription on the original.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![George Baker, c.1882 [version 1]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74400.jpg?itok=zmrj3cix "George Baker, c.1882 [version 1]")
Studio portrait of George Baker wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Rachel Checote [version 2], c.1882](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_pach2090c.jpg?itok=_BnQ2f6j "Rachel Checote [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Rachel Checote possibly wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Rachel Checote [version 1], c.1882](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73411.jpg?itok=1DY4-dDG "Rachel Checote [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Rachel Checote possibly wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Ernie Black wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jennie Conners probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Baptiste and Louis Bayhylle, c.1882 [version2]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_pach001a.jpg?itok=NbB9P98H "Baptiste and Louis Bayhylle, c.1882 [version 2]")
Studio portrait of Baptiste Bayhylle and his son Louis Bayhylle. Baptiste is wearing non-native clothes and Louis is in a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Baptiste and Louis Bayhylle, c.1882 [version 1]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73451.jpg?itok=L8jaP8C1 "Baptiste and Louis Bayhylle, c.1882 [version 1]")
Studio portarit of Baptiste Bayhylle and his son, Louis Bayhylle. Baptiste is wearing non-native clothes and Louis is wearing a school uniform. There apperas to be an illegible caption written along the top of the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Tom Torlino, 1882 [before]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NARA_1327_b018_f0872_001.jpg?itok=mjHh9J4i "Tom Torlino, 1882 [before]")
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Tom Torlino, Navajoe.
This iconic image of Tom Torlino coming to Carlisle in 1882 was taken by John N. Choate of Carlisle, PA. It is often used in before-and-after photographs of Torlino to demonstrate assimilation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Glass plate negative image of Adam McCarty, a member of the Modoc Nation.
The caption reads: Adam McCarty
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Michael Burns wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Glass plate negative image of Adam McCarty, a member of the Modoc Nation.
The caption reads: Adam McCarthy
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Louis Bighorse wearing non-native clothes.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
This caption reads: TOM TORLINO – NAVAJO. AS HE ENTERED THE SCHOOL IN 1882. AS HE APPEARED THREE YEARS LATER.
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
![George Baker, c.1882 [version 2]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_pach1092c.jpg?itok=qQjBg4hh "George Baker, c.1882 [version 2]")
Studio portrait of Geoge Baker wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
This image shows Richard Henry Pratt (seated on the bandstand) with a group of Navajo students upon their arrival at Carlisle on October 21, 1882. Based on enrollment information and a few other photographs of the individuals pictured, we believe the students are as follows:
Seated, left to right - Tom Torlino, George Williams, Stailey Norcross, Antoinette Williams, Charles Damon. Standing, left to right - Manuelito Chiquito, Manuelito Choni, Charlie, John Bitzclay, Francisco, Saahtlie (George Watchman), Benjamin Damon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Manuelito Chiquito [version 1], 1882](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73354.jpg?itok=HsvtMVpF "Manuelito Chiquito [version 1], 1882")
Studio portrait of Manuelito Chiquito in native dress.
Note: Chiquito arrived on October 21, 1882 and this photograph was probably taken on that date or very soon after.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Manuelito Chiquito [version 2], 1882](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_bsch010.jpg?itok=B-8A2t5z "Manuelito Chiquito [version 2], 1882")
Studio portrait of Manuelio Chiquito wearing native clothing.
Note: Chiquito arrived on October 21, 1882 and this photograph was probably taken on that day or very soon after.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Manuelito Chiquito [version 3], 1882](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/Rowe_G_08a.jpg?itok=PnauSYME "Manuelito Chiquito [version 3], 1882")
Studio portrait of Manuelito Chiquito wearing native clothing.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: No. 111. Manilito Chiquito Navajoe from New Mexico
Chiquito arrived on October 21, 1882 and this photograph was probably taken on that day or very soon after.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Manuelito Choni [version 2], 1882](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_122201.jpg?itok=q1svFzor "Manuelito Choni [version 2], 1882")
Studio portrait of Manuelito Choni wearing native clothing.
This photograph was proabably taken on or very close to Choni's date of arrival, October 21, 1882.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Manuelito Choni [version 1], 1882](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73563.jpg?itok=-jjcZZKY "Manuelito Choni [version 1], 1882")
Studio portrait of Manuelio Choni wearing native clothes.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution