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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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
![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
The printed caption reads: ETADLEUH DOANMOE, KIOWA. Taken prisoner in 1875 and sent to Ft. Marion, Fla.; was released in /1878; spent one year at Hampton Institute, Va.; entered Carlisle 1879. In 1882 married Tone-adle-mah, an educated girl of his own tribe, and reentered to the Indian Territory. Served as Helper in the School an Interpreter. In 1888 was appointed by the Presbyterian Board as a missionary among the Kiowas, but died soon after, having lived an exemplary life and exerted a good influence ence among his associates.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
![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
Glass plate negative image of Etadleuh Doanmoe, a member of the Kiowa Nation.
The caption reads: Etahdleuh
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![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
![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
Studio portrait of Ernie Black wearing non-native clothing.
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
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
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
The caption reads: WOUNDED YELLOW ROBE. HENRY STANDING BEAR. CHAUNCY YELLOW ROBE.
SIOUX BOYS AS THEY ENTERED THE SCHOOL IN 1883. 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
Studio portrait of Phillips Bob Tail wearing non-native clothing. A handwritten caption written along the side of the image probably reads: Philips Bobtail.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Rose White Thunder, c.1883 [after]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/DKC_PC200804_f15.jpg?itok=Tb4bT6GG "Rose White Thunder, c.1883 [after]")
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Rose White Thunder. Sioux.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Susie Martinez & Doll. Delaware.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Martha Bordeaux wearing non-native clothes.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Elizabeth Black Moon probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Chauncey Yellow Robe, #1, 1883 [before]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NARA_1327_b135_f5297_0032.jpg?itok=hQaU9NtN "Chauncey Yellow Robe, #1, 1883 [before]")
Chauncey Yellow Robe as he entered the school in 1883.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
![Chauncey Yellow Robe, #2, 1883 [before]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0058.jpg?itok=G1vvVlX6 "Chauncey Yellow Robe, #2, 1883 [before]")
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Chancey Yellow Robe Sioux Indian when started to school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Kent Black Bear wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Rose White Thunder, c.1883 [before]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/scis_0008_0.jpg?itok=ZyRZQbVt "Rose White Thunder, c.1883 [before]")
This caption reads: ROSE WHITE THUNDER. DAUGHTER OF A SIOUX CHIEF, WHITE THUNDER, IN ELK TOOTH DRESS – AT CARLISLE ’83-’87.
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
The handwritten note reads: Students at Government School at Carlisle, Pa.
Based on enrollment information and a few other photographs of the individuals pictured, we believe the students are as follows:
Younger boys seated in front, left to right - Charles Damon, George Williams. Seated, left to right - Manuelito Choni, Charlie, Tom Torlino, Manuelito Chiquito, Antoinette Williams. Standing, left to right - Saahtlie (George Watchman), Benjamin Damon, Francisco, Stailey Norcross.
This same group of Navajo students appear in a photograph with Richard Henry Pratt upon their arrival at the school on October 21, 1882. See the "Richard H. Pratt with 12 students, 1882" link below.
We believe the photo dates from the spring or early summer of 1883 since there are only 10 men pictured here, although 11 arrived together. (Antoinette Williams arrived a year earlier.) John Bitzclay died in March of 1883, and 3 of the others left Carlisle in July and August of 1883 due to poor health.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections