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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![Grace Cook with her father [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73669.jpg?itok=3nlSQjPI "Grace Cook with her father [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Cook with his daughter, student Grace Cook.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Frank Cushing, Taylor Ealy, Mary Ealy, and Jennie Hammaker [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73336.jpg?itok=gjL28s7t "Frank Cushing, Taylor Ealy, Mary Ealy, and Jennie Hammaker [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Frank Cushing (standing at left), Taylor Ealy (standing at right), Mary Ealy (seated in swing at left), and Jennie Hammaker (seated at right), all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Marcus Poko and Otto Wells [?], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2331%20Full%20048.jpg?itok=Ohwb4TsG "Marcus Poko and Otto Wells [?], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Marcus Poko and Otto Wells [?], both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The individual in this carte de visite has not been identified.
This image was shared courtesy of Robert R. Rowe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Robert R. Rowe Private Collection
![Teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_021b.jpg?itok=QkfSyrAS "Teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students. The students are: Ann Laura (back left), Hattie Long Wolf (back middle), Rebecca Big Star (back right), Alice Wynn (middle row left), Grace Cook (middle row right), Mabel Doanmoe (bottom left), Stella Berht (bottom center), and Ruth (Looking Woman) (bottom right). The girls all appear to be wearing school uniforms.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: CS-CH-076, PA-CH1-021b, and 13-14-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Darlington [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74269.jpg?itok=T19Nh0wR "Darlington [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Darlington wearing school uniform.
Handwritten caption along bottom edge of image probably reads: Darlington.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Male and female students posed in rows on the school grounds in front of the superintendent's house.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Indian School students Amos Lone Hill, Joseph Gun, Philip (Kills), Ellwood Dorian, Carlos, Walter Matches, Oscar Bull Bear, and Ralph Iron Eagle Feather and staff members Samuel Wetzel and E.B. Strait working on the roof of one of the school buildings.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: CS-CH-096 and 14-07-02.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73381.jpg?itok=X0vv5K4S "Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville, all wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Red Shirt [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73697.jpg?itok=cZTMLbp- "Red Shirt [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Red Shirt, a Sioux chief.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Assistant Superintendent's Quarters with a man, woman, and two children (one in a baby carriage) posed on the porch. The man is probably A.J. Standing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of a studio portrait, identified as "Friday, a visitor to the Indian school."
This photograph was taken by J.N. Choate, but the photographer of the original portrait is unknown. It may have also been Choate.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Darlington [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_032b.jpg?itok=v4gJtYkd "Darlington [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Darlington wearing school uniform.
Note: CCHS has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-032b and CS-CH-003.1-.2.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Red Shirt [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_019c.jpg?itok=G1GlyhXe "Red Shirt [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Red Shirt, a Sioux chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-019c and CS-CH-108.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Spotted Tail after his return from Washington [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch037b.jpg?itok=y6gmUFJe "Spotted Tail after his return from Washington [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Spotted Tail, a Sioux chief, described as being "after his return from Washington."
Note: This image was sold by photographer J.N. Choate (#23 on his list of photos being sold). It is there that it is described as "after his return from Washington."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David Blue Teeth (standing) and his sister Hope Blue Teeth (seated). David is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73319.jpg?itok=-ksfgx6t "Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Bob Tail and his son, Joseph Bobtail, who is wearing school uniform. There is an illegible handwritten caption along the side of the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Sheldon Jackson, Harvey Townsend, and John Shields [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/Rowe_G_10a.jpg?itok=FTMliPSX "Sheldon Jackson, Harvey Townsend, and John Shields [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Sheldon Jackson (left), Harvey Townsend (center), and John Shields (right), all wearing native clothing.
The handwritten note reads: Pueblos Harvey Townsend Sheldon Jackson.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-19b, 10-B-35A, CS-CH-74, and 12-26-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Five young male Sioux students [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73375.jpg?itok=UNLzJ-gO "Five young male Sioux students [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of (back row, left to right): David (Kills Without Wounding), Nathan (Ear), Pollock Spotted Tail; and (front row, left to right): Marshall (Marshall Bad Milk), and Hugh (Running Horse). All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Students Samuel High Bear and Guy (Bear Don't Scare) working at the bakery. This is a posed photo of them loading loaves of bread on a wheelbarrow outside the bakery.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-084c and CS-CH-099.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73368.jpg?itok=K5fx0RWT "Teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students. The students are: Ann Laura (back left), Hattie Long Wolf (back middle), Rebecca Big Star (back right), Alice Wynn (middle row left), Grace Cook (middle row right), Mabel Doanmoe (bottom left), Stella Berht (bottom center), and Ruth (Looking Woman) (bottom right). The girls all appear to be wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Valentine McKenzie.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Slate showing student work with name Luther Otakte [version 1], c. 1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/73366.jpg?itok=Wjy4bkJF "Slate showing student work with name Luther Otakte [version 1], c. 1880")
Image of a slate such as those used by students. This slate shows a drawing of a man shooting an arrow at a bird next to a tree, math problems, the name "Luther Otakte," and an example of writing referring to teacher Miss Burgess. Along the side is written "Choate Photographer."
It is probable but not certain that all the work on this slate was done by student Luther Standing Bear (Sioux nation) who was also known by the name Ota Kte. This slate is not dated, but in another image, almost certainly taken at the same date, the slate has a copy of a letter dated June 25, 1880, so this slate has been dated to 1880 also.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Iron Wing, a Sioux chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-011b and CS-CH-036.1-.3.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Existing building (the South Barracks) used as the first school building in which classes were taught.
This building was demolished in July 1888 and replaced with a new building for the same purpose.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution