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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Studio portrait of two unidentified female students.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Hawley Pierce.

The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a glass plate negative of this image (00327B). 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The handwritten note reads: C. Dillon

View of Charles Dillon in his Carlisle football uniform around 1900.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Studio portrait of King Nephew and Solomon Scrogg.

Note: There is a listing of King Nephew enrolling at the school in 1897, but the only mentions of him have been found in school ledgers. However, we believe he may also be known as Kingsley Nephew, the person listed as the "home address" of Seneca students Della John, Lyford John, and Oliver John, who each enrolled several years after King Nephew's departure.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of four unidentified male students.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

 The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Jos. Payawesa Sr. & Jr.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Studio portrait of Hawley Pierce.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The printed note reads: Thompson, Redwater, Wheelock, Scott, Warner, Seneca, Miller, Scholder, Pierce, Roberts, Warren, Metoxen, Johnson, Smith, Hudson, Rogers, Sickles.

This image with the caption FOOTBALL TEAM OF 1900 appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).

This image, with the caption FOOTBALL TEAM,  also appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.98].

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Reuben Jones. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Sosipatra Suvoroff and Irene Suvoroff. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Pasquala Anderson and Ida Swallow.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student wearing a hat. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Felicita Romero. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Juan B. Vavages and Thomas Kenay. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Pupils bedroom

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Maud Sampson

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student in school uniform. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Angeline View. 

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-071g and 14A-10-02.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption reads: Final 220 yds. Dash Between Carlisle Indians and Mercersburg Academy.

The handwritten note reads: Easter Greetings. Can you find the sender? A boy snapped this some years ago. W. A. McLaughlin. Mercersburg, Pa. 03/30/1907.

This image is from a track and field event between the Carlisle Indian School and Mercersburg Academy.

This image was shared courtesy of Robert R. Rowe.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: Robert R. Rowe Private Collection

Studio portrait of George Ladeaux.

Note: Previous cataloging indicated the student's name in the hand written caption is George Laden.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF 1900.

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

A class room with smaller male and female students, some standing and writing on the blackboard. A white female teacher sits at a desk in the front. 

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

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

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