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 photograph of an unidentified male student. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

This postcard has the caption Taps Indian School Carlisle, Pa.

Although this postcard was never sent, there is a message written on the back: "To Donald from Catharine. We had an indian boy take us all through the Indian school."

 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Portrait of five female students and two male students (in uniform) posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging for this image identifies them as "teachers," so they may be student teachers. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of five male students and four female students posed on the steps of the court house (now known as the Old Court House) with one white man and one white woman, presumably teachers. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Group portrait of seventeen male students in uniform posed with one white man. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A large group of female students posed on the steps of a school building with one older white woman. Some students in the front row hold a banner that says "YWCA."\

The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a print of this image (13-15-01).

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A large group of female students posed on the steps of a school building with one older white woman. Some students in the front row hold a banner that says "YWCA."

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing glasses.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of a snowy campus with a man near the flag pole on a path cleared from the Girls' Quarters to the pole. The Girls' Quarters is in the background. 

The image is somewhat damaged. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Two male students wearing uniforms seated at either side of a table in a student's bedroom. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Several younger male students wearing uniforms posed reading newspapers at a table with many piles of newspapers--the Reading Room in the Small Boys' Quarters. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of a corner in a girl's room, with a large window flanked with a bookcase and a bureau. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of a corner of a room of a female student. A table or desk is covered with many framed photographs. There is a framed photograph of the school band hanging above the desk and there's another photograph, probably also of Carlisle students, sitting on a chair. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View taken from the center of campus showing the Girls' Quarters and the Bandstand, with female students on the grounds. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the central campus with the Bandstand, the Girls' Quarters, and the Teacher's Quarters with snow-covered grounds. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Posed studio photograph of the graduating class of 1900.

Note: Although Eliza Smith's name is on the label for this photograph, the number next to her is not written next to anyone in the photograph. Other documentation also indicates that she actually graduated in 1899.

 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the school's Gymnasium.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of August Kensler, who served as quartermaster and storekeeper at the school.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of seventeen unidentified male students and eleven unidentified female students with two white men and one white women posed outside on the school grounds. 

Previous cataloging describes the caption as saying that these are students from New York and the date is 1901. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of James Browndog around 1901.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Studio portrait of two female students.

Format: Postcard

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

View of school's Gymnasium building. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society