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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Portrait of Edward Bracklin in football uniform standing on an athletic field. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption reads: EAGLE EYE Full Blooded Indian Raised in South Dakota, Born in 1892. The verses on the other side were written for him. SUNSHINE BORN 1898  BENJAMIN BORN 1910

The reverse side contains the verses titlted "A LONG INDIAN" which begins: A lone Indian sat in his little canoe; He sang as he sailed o'er the water so blue; He sang of the days when this land was their own, Before the pale faces among them were known.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Group portrait of eight female students and seven male students posed in front of a school building with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913. In this version of the image, the woman to the left of the banner is facing to the right. The Cumberland County Historical has another glass plate negative version of this image (00314A#70) in which the woman to the left of the banner is looking directly forward. 

In a print version of this image (CCHS 11-A-15), the students are identified. Back row: Francis Eastman, Henry Broker, Montreville Yuda, Fred Sickles, Peter Eastman, and Harrison Smith; middle row: Sylvia Moon, Estelle Bradley; front row: Cora Elm, Anna Hauser, Sadie M. Ingalls, William Garlow, Iva Metoxen, Lida Wheelock, and Lelia Waterman.  

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

School employee Mary Yoos and two Native American men (students or staff members) standing on the porch of the Guard House.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Male students seated for a meal on benches at tables in an open air pavilion with several white men, presumably staff, standing at the ends of the tables. A black male staff member, the cook, is standing at the front left.  

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Group portrait of eight female students, seven male students and one white female teacher, posed on the school grounds with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913.

Note: In the photo of this graduating class posed in front of a building, the students are identified. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Group portrait of eight female students, seven male students and one white female teacher, posed on the school grounds with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913.

Note: In the photo of this graduating class posed in front of a building, the students are identified. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society also owns a print of this image: 13-20-01.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Group portrait of eight female students and seven male students posed in front of a school building with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913. 

The students are identified as,back row: Francis Eastman, Henry Broker, Montreville Yuda, Fred Sickles, Peter Eastman, and Harrison Smith; middle row: Sylvia Moon, Estelle Bradley; front row: Cora Elm, Anna Hauser, Sadie M. Ingalls, William Garlow, Iva Metoxen, Lida Wheelock, and Lelia Waterman.    

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The handwritten note reads: Leslie William Boyd.

Leslie Boyd is James Boyd's son.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Female students Jeanette Pappin, Clemence Le Traille and Blanche Jollie with two male and two female visitors. These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.

According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper:  Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground. 

A researcher has identifed one of the people in this photo as Two Guns Whitecalf. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Female students Jeanette Pappin, Clemence Le Traille and Blanche Jollie with two male and two female visitors. These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.

According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper:  Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground. 

A researcher has identifed one of the people in this photo as Two Guns Whitecalf. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Female students Jeanette Pappin, Clemence Le Traille and Blanche Jollie with two male and two female visitors. These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.

According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper:  Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground. 

A researcher has identifed one of the people in this photo as Two Guns Whitecalf. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

The handwritten note reads: BLACK FEET INDIANS FROM GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. COMMENCEMENT WEEK. INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE. PA.

These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.

According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper:  Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground. 

 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption reads: CARLISLE STUDENT IN INDIAN DRESS

The handwritten note reads: Rose Lyons

The printed note reads: It isn't often that Indian students appear in native costume at Carlisle, but the accompanying cut is from a picture of Miss Star Eyes, who attracted much attention at this week's commencement by her pretty face and pic-turesque garb.

This image of Miss Star Eyes appears in the Harrisburg Telegraph on April 2, 1913.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Male students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Male students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds in front of the tents observing a male student playing a violin. A "Camp Sells" banner is partially visible in the background. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging notes that "in the August 1913 booklet about Camp Sells, the violin player is identified as Fred Cardin." 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A posed group at Camp Sells, with male students sitting on and standing next to a log bridge. More male students and staff are sitting and standing on the shore, some leaning on shovels, in front of tents. A banner with "Camp Sells" is strung between two trees. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Female students seated for a meal on benches at tables in an open air pavilion with female staff standing at the ends of the tables. A black male staff member is standing in the center in the background.  

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A posed group at Camp Sells, with female students sitting on a log bridge and standing in the water below. More female students and staff are sitting and standing on the shore in front of tents. A banner with "Camp Sells" is strung between two trees. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Group portrait of nineteen female students, some with long braids and some with baseball equipment, posed in an outdoor setting. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Female students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A posed group at Camp Sells, with white male and female staff on a log bridge, some carrying supplies. Some female students are sitting further back on the log bridge and standing in the water below. More female students and staff are sitting and standing on the shore in front of tents. A banner with "Camp Sells" is strung between two trees. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

White female staff members posed using a two-sided saw on a log, while other staff members, including a black man, observe. Female students can be seen in the background with tents and the edge of the dining pavilion. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Male students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Female students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society