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 four unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of ten unidentified female students. All are wearing school uniforms; one, a much younger girl, is wearing a white pinafore over her uniform.
Note: In previous cataloging the handwritten caption says the students are from the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (also known as Timber Yellow Robe) wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student in a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
Another image of what is probably this student in a different pose is linked to in Related Images.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.
Another image of what is probably this student in a different pose is linked to in Related Images.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Harvey Townsend and Benjamin Thomas, both wearing school uniforms.
The caption reads: H. Townsend + B. Thomas
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of three male students in school uniforms, identified as the "Little Bear group."
The caption read: Little Bear Group
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Owen Fire and Festus Pelone, both wearing school uniforms and holding straw boater hats.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of seventeen female students, all wearing school uniforms.
The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image, written on the album page, identifies them as being from the Pueblo nation.
In another copy of this image, made by Dickinson College from an original owned by Bob Rowe, the description (see Related Images) there is a typed caption that reads "The same Pueblo girls as seen in the photograph above, six months after arrival at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School." The "photograph above" was taken when they entered in August 1884.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of seventeen female Pueblo students, all wearing school uniforms. A few are holding dolls. In Choate's 1902 Souveneir this is identfied as a portrait of Pueblo girls who arrived in 1884.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Students from the Indian Nurses Corps and medical staff posed on the front of a building. They are identified as being, from left to right: Zippa Metoxen, Rose Howell, Dr. Obadiah G. Given, Alice Seabrook, Barbara Showarumy, Clara Anthony, Katie Metoxen, Lillie Wind, and Boise Bassford. Given, Seabrook, and Anthony were school employees.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of four male students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Candelaria Quintana.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nellie Robertson, Etta Robertson, and Adelia Lowe, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Samuel Townsend wearing school uniform.
The caption reads: Samuel Townsend
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections