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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Students in the shoe shop with white instructor standing in rear of the room. 

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-087e and BS-CH-048.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the chapel with added bell tower over front door but before additions were put on the sides. Three male students, one in uniform, are posed in front of the building. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of the chapel with added bell tower over front door but before the additons were put on the sides. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of students in uniforms seated at rows of desks in a school room with a white female teacher. Some students are standing in front by the chalk boards. 

The caption identifies this as Miss Fisher's class room. School records indicate Elspeth (or Effie) Fisher taught at the school from 1881 to 1892. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the dining hall at the school, all tables filled by students. Male and female students are seated on opposite sides of the tables. There are a few adult white people standing at right. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a female teacher in the front of the room. One male student is standing at the blackboard next to a drawing of a horse. 

Previous cataloging indicates the caption written on this image identifies this as Miss Booth's classroom. School records indicate Vicentine Booth taught at the school between 1881 and 1889.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Existing building (the South Barracks) used as the first school building. Students are posed on the balconies and lined up to enter the building. A sign attached at the near end of the building reads "Schoolrooms." 

This building was demolished in July 1888 and replaced with a new building for the same purpose.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-002, 10A-C-02, and 12-08-03. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The guard house with a figure standing in the central doorway. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of a Joactoras, a visiting Arapaho chief. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Studo portrait of an unidentified male student in school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Studio portrait of a visitor to the school, presumably a chief. He is identified on the reverse as Roan Horse from the Apache nation. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's version of this image identifies him as Ai-sia-tiw-me or Comanche John. 

Note: A researcher has indicated that Comanche John was actually Comanche, but that he had run away to Mescalero Apache in 1879.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Studio portrait of teacher Alice M. Seabrook.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (back row, left to right): Harriet Kyocea, Lydia Harrington, Louie Cornelius, Katie White Bird, and Julia Logan; (front row, left to right): Alice Long Pole, Jennie Black, Nellie Aspenall, and Jennie Conners.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of two unidentified male students and three unidentified female students. The seated male student has been identified as Lot Eyelash. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Students working in the print shop. 

Note: This image shows the left side of the print shop. NAA 73577 (see Related Images) shows the right side of the print shop. In NAA 73243 (see Related Images) prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Formation of students on the northeastern end of the school grounds, near the enclosing fence with a farm in the distance. They are all male students in uniform, in rows with the band in the front. The location seems to be roughly where the athletic field was later laid out, to the east of the industrial workshops.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Four identified male students. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of five unidentified male students. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of nineteen students, some in native clothing, probably taken upon arrival on the school grounds. In the back row at the far right is a male student in school uniform. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of two men, seated in the center, wearing hats and white scarves, probably visitors, with five male students (one wearing a uniform), and a young girl. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of one male student wearing school uniform with four female students.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The girls' quarters with female students visible on the porches, with the bandstand at right and the hospital building visible between them. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-058B and 10A-C-03. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The girls' quarters with female students on the porches, with the bandstand at right and the hospital building visible between them. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Students working in the print shop. 

Note: NAA 73251 (see Related Images) shows the left side of the print shop. NAA 73577 (see Related Images) shows the right side of the print shop. In this image prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop. 

This image, with the caption Printing Office - Interior, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902)  [p. 24].

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of a students wearing uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a white female teacher and some students near the board at the front of the room. 

The caption identifies this as Miss Cutter's classroom. School records show Emma Cutter taught at the school from 1881 to 1896. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society