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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![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
![White Man and Stumbling Bear, visiting chiefs [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0054.jpg?itok=VAw6OPpm "White Man and Stumbling Bear, visiting chiefs [version 1], c.1880")
The caption reads: White Man Apache Chief Stumbling Bear Kiowa Chief
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73594.jpg?itok=BR0p09xu "Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) wearing native dress.
Note: This is an example of Choate taking a photograph of another photograph. Previous cataloging says she is wearing an elk-tooth dress, blanket, and dentalium shell earrings.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Stella Berht.
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/NAA_73345.jpg?itok=oLCpah2t "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 copy of this image says that they are chiefs from the Sac and Fox nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
![Grace Cook with her father [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0055.jpg?itok=OfAzvH8K "Grace Cook with her father [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Cook and his daughter, student Grace Cook.
The handwritten caption reads: Cook - and. Daughter -
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-017b and CS-CH-045.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Ernest (Knocks Off) [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_017a.jpg?itok=CUCEQQ1C "Ernest (Knocks Off) [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Ernest (Knocks Off) wearing school uniform.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-017a and CS-CH-019.
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
![Lucy Black Shortnose [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74268.jpg?itok=GHjF8Cfv "Lucy Black Shortnose [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose wearing a school-issued print dress.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The caption reads: Cheyenne Chief (Manemic) one of Florida prisoners
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Minimic Chief of Comanche Indians from a painting by J. Wells Champney, at Ft Marion, Florida
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![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
![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
![Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74254.jpg?itok=2us6viAI "Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise, both wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![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
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
Portrait of a large group of visiting Sioux chiefs posed in front of the bandstand on the school grounds with some white men including Richard Henry Pratt.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-028a, BS-CH-028, and 12-15-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Big Bow [version 1], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73482.jpg?itok=73q6NZZ7 "Big Bow [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Big Bow, a Kiowa chief.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Big Bow [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_012b.jpg?itok=FeQx1vwd "Big Bow [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Big Bow, a Kiowa chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Five young male Sioux students [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_021c.jpg?itok=1BsVmdsF "Five young male Sioux students [version 2], 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
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-021c, 10-B-07, and CS-CH-065.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lucy Black Shortnose [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_017c.jpg?itok=UG0JyW1l "Lucy Black Shortnose [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose wearing a school-issued print dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![White Man and Stumbling Bear, visiting chiefs [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/0321.f.0016.jpg?itok=aCGItw8_ "White Man and Stumbling Bear, visiting chiefs [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of two visiting chiefs holding folding fans.
They are identified in Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections version of this image as White Man, Apache Chief (at left) and Stumbling Bear, Kiowa Chief (at right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
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
Studio portrait of visiting chief Little Raven with his daughter, student Anna Raven.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail [version 2], c.1880](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_082b.jpg?itok=Gh_auogw "Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Bob Tail with his son Joseph Bobtail, who is dressed in a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society