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 portrait of Ota Chief Eagle wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Chauncey Yellow Robe, #2, 1883 [before]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0058.jpg?itok=G1vvVlX6 "Chauncey Yellow Robe, #2, 1883 [before]")
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Chancey Yellow Robe Sioux Indian when started to school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Frank Conroy in school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: F. Conroy.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Elizabeth Day and Katie Day, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Rose White Thunder, 1883 [before]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/scis_0008_0.jpg?itok=ZyRZQbVt "Rose White Thunder, 1883 [before]")
This caption reads: ROSE WHITE THUNDER. DAUGHTER OF A SIOUX CHIEF, WHITE THUNDER, IN ELK TOOTH DRESS – AT CARLISLE ’83-’87.
This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Samuel De Rauza wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Kent Black Bear wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of a young man in non-native clothes.
Note: There is a difficult to read handwritten caption along the side of the image which we believe says: Ellis Childers.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joshua Given wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note reads: Students at Government School at Carlisle, Pa.
Based on enrollment information and a few other photographs of the individuals pictured, we believe the students are as follows:
Younger boys seated in front, left to right - Charles Damon, George Williams. Seated, left to right - Manuelito Choni, Charlie, Tom Torlino, Manuelito Chiquito, Antoinette Williams. Standing, left to right - Saahtlie (George Watchman), Benjamin Damon, Francisco, Stailey Norcross.
This same group of Navajo students appear in a photograph with Richard Henry Pratt upon their arrival at the school on October 21, 1882. See the "Richard H. Pratt with 12 students, 1882" link below.
We believe the photo dates from the spring or early summer of 1883 since there are only 10 men pictured here, although 11 arrived together. (Antoinette Williams arrived a year earlier.) John Bitzclay died in March of 1883, and 3 of the others left Carlisle in July and August of 1883 due to poor health.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Wounded Yellow Robe, Timber Yellow Robe, and Henry Standing Bear, 1883, #2 [before]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/DKC_PC200202_f06.jpg?itok=yzp-N0Nm "Wounded Yellow Robe, Timber Yellow Robe, and Henry Standing Bear, 1883, #2 [before]")
View of Wounded Yellow Robe, Timber Yellow Robe, and Henry Standing Bear on November 15, 1883.
The handwritten note reads: Taken upon their arrival in Carlisle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Wounded Yellow Robe, Timber Yellow Robe, and Henry Standing Bear, 1883, #1 [before]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0024.jpg?itok=arab6iy3 "Wounded Yellow Robe, Timber Yellow Robe, and Henry Standing Bear, 1883, #1 [before]")
View of Wounded Yellow Robe, Timber Yellow Robe, and Henry Standing Bear the day after they entered the school on November 15, 1883.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: 1 Wounded Yellow Robe, 3 Timber Yellow Robe, and 2 Henry Standing Bear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Norman Casadore wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lena Black Bear, c. 1884 [version 1]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73401.jpg?itok=TDoPL_WG "Lena Black Bear, c.1884 [version 1]")
Studio portrait of Lena Black Bear probably wearing school uniform. Handwritten along the side of the image: Lena Black Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of George Fire Thunder wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Rose Howell wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Silas Childers wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Menual Chaves wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Susie Bond wearing non-native clothing, possibly a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lorenzo Bonito, c.1884 [version 1]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74044.jpg?itok=feoPeQVq "Lorenzo Bonitio, c.1884 [version 1]")
Studio portrait of Lorenzo Bonito wearing school uniform. A partially obscured handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Lorenzo Barnte.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Julia Dorris probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lorenzo Bonito, c.1884 [version 2]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_pach1059a.jpg?itok=ZG-JJo0- "Lorenzo Bonitio, c.1884 [version 2]")
Studio portrait of Lorenzo Bonito wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portait of Cook, seated, with his dauther, Grace Cook standing at left and Hope Blue Teeth standing at right. All are wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Isaac Cutter wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![William Fletcher and his uncle, Old Crow [version 2], 1884](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_pach1011a.jpg?itok=9SGv_EoT "William Fletcher and his uncle, Old Crow [version 2], 1884")
Studio portrait of William Fletcher (standing) and his uncle, Old Crow. Fletcher is wearing non-native clothing and his uncle is wearing a large overcoat.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society