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 Luther Standing Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
![Five chiefs and two interpreters with Richard Henry Pratt [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73338.jpg?itok=na0knWG_ "Five chiefs and two interpreters with Richard Henry Pratt [version 1], c.1880")
Portrait of chiefs Brother-to-All, Like the Bear, Poor Wolf, Son-of-the-Star, and American Horse posed with interpreters John Bridgeman and John Smith, standing in front of the bandstand on the school grounds. The man in the background on the left is probably Richard Henry Pratt.
Note: Identification of the chiefs is based on Cumberland County Historical Society's CS-CH-089.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Five female students [version 1], 1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73335.jpg?itok=FRuZ1w3x "Five female students [version 1], 1880")
Studio portrait of Alice Wynn (back left), Kisetta Roosevelt (back middle), Mabel Doanmoe (back right), Rebecca Big Star (front left), and Harriet Mary Elder (front right). All are wearing school uniforms.
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
Students and staff working in the harness-making shop at the Carlisle Indian School. They are identified as, from left to right: Lorenzo Chapman (instructor), Geoffrey Chips, Cheape Ross, Curtis, Lawrence, Edward Little, William Spotted Tail, Julian, Morgan, Henry Thigh, and Andrew.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified visiting chief. A later handwritten caption reads "N.M. Apache."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_016c.jpg?itok=ZgbX2pZX "Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise, both wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Spotted Tail, a Sioux chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-018c and CS-CH-037a.1-.2.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of three unidentified male students; two are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of John Primaux.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Valentine McKenzie wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Wisecoby and Moses Nonway, both wearing school uniforms and holding hats.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of five Sioux chiefs posed with two white interpreters on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds. The chiefs are Black Crow, Two Strike, White Thunder, Spotted Tail, and Iron Wing. The interpreters are Louis Robideau and Charles Tackett.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-076c and CS-CH-086.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_121701a.jpg?itok=4cRnC9GQ "Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) wearing native dress.
There is a caption written by Mrs. Richard Henry Pratt: "She was given my name (Anna Laura) by her own request. Grand daughter of Spotted Tail, Chief, Sioux."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: 12-17-01, 12-17-01A, and PA-CH1-065b.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Visiting Sac and Fox chiefs [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_bsch044.jpg?itok=j31FoJ2I "Visiting Sac and Fox chiefs [version 1], c.1880")
Portrait of a group of visiting chiefs with some white men and one male student. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging says they are Sac and Fox chiefs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Frank Cushing, Taylor Ealy, Mary Ealy, and Jennie Hammaker [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_033a.jpg?itok=1XxIT2ep "Frank Cushing, Taylor Ealy, Mary Ealy, and Jennie Hammaker [version 2], 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 dressed in school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_022c.jpg?itok=Lq5ihXfX "Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville, all wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Zonkeuh [?], Owen Yellow Hair, Charles Kawboodle, Dan Tucker, c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2304%20%28Choate%20%2305%29%20Full%20026.jpg?itok=-Ks2aVSH "Zonkeuh [?], Owen Yellow Hair, Charles Kawboodle, Dan Tucker, c.1880")
Portrait of Zonkeuh [probably standing at left], Owen Yellow Hair, Charles Kawboodle, and Dan Tucker posed in front of a building on the school grounds. All are holding bugles.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Ernest (Knocks Off) [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73387.jpg?itok=DgZchg-H "Ernest (Knocks Off) [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Ernest (Knocks Off) wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Spotted Tail after his return from Washington [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73317.jpg?itok=lPJCsLun "Spotted Tail after his return from Washington [version 1], 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 the list of photos being sold). It is here that it is described as being "after his return from Washington."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![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
![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
Studio portrait of Mary Ealy (standing at left), Jennie Hammaker (standing at right), Frank Cushing (sitting at left), and Taylor Ealy (sitting at right), all wearing native clothing.
The printed caption on the reverse side reads:
No 20.
Teai-e-se-u-lu-ti-wa - Frank Cushing.
Tra-wa-ea-tsa-lun-kia - Saylor Ealy.
Tsai au-tit-sa - Mary Ealy.
Jan-i-uh-tit sa - Jennie Hammaker.
- Pueblos.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-044a and CS-CH-068.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Sheldon Jackson, Harvey Townsend, and John Shields [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73447.jpg?itok=iBS0cYfy "Sheldon Jackson, Harvey Townsend, and John Shields [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Sheldon Jackson (left), Harvey Townsend (center), and John Shields (right), all wearing native clothing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution