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 Joshua Asher and Louis Bedell. A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Louis Bedell & Joshua Asher.
Note: Asher was three years older than Bedell. Therefore, it seems likely that it is Asher seated at left, and Bedell seated at right.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Carlisle School grounds with a view of the Chapel.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay, Lyman Kennedy, Morgan Toprock, and Ralph Naltuey, all wearing baseball uniforms with variations of "YA" on the front.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Baird and Angelina Baird.
The handwritten caption along the side of the image is probably: Angelina and William Baird.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Thomas Schanandore, Adam Metoxen, and James R. Wheelock. Two are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Zippa Metoxen.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hiram Bailey dressed in school uniform. Handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Hiram Bailey.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio picture of Francis Ortiz wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Old Eagle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Sophia Metoxen and Katie Metoxen.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of fourteen male students, some wearing uniforms with "CARLISLE" on the front. The student in the front center is holding a football, so presumably this is a football team.
Previous cataloging for this image gives it a date of 1889.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of a large group of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of fourteen male students, some wearing uniforms with "CARLISLE" on the front. The student in the front center is holding a football, so presumably this is a football team.
Note: Previous cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image gives a date of 1889 for it.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joel Tyndall.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date February 1889.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Arrow Running Horse.
Previous cataloging indicates a date of February 1889 is part of the handwritten caption.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Burdett Tsis-nah and Giles Lancy, one wearing school uniform.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes a date of March 1879. However, that date cannot be correct. Based on the students' enrollment dates, it is more likely the date is March 1889.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of three male students, two in uniform, with a white man with a large handlebar mustache. The caption identifies the man as J.M. Woodburne. The school paper notes that Dr. Woodburne "of the Rosebud Agency" visited the school in March of 1889.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Carrie Deroin probably wearing school uniform. A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Carrie Deroin, March 1889.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frederick Dangerous Eagle wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frederick Dangerous Eagle wearing school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: Fred D. Eagle, March 1889.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of seventeen unidentified male students and three unidentified female students. The caption identifies them as Miss Seabrook's class and provides a date of June 1889.
School records show Alice M. Seabrook was a teacher at the school from 1885 to 1889.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of five unidentified male students and four unidentified female students.
Cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image identifies the students as from the Chippewa nation and the date of the image as August 31, 1889.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Studio portrait of five unidentified male students and four unidentified female students.
Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Chippewa nation and provides a date of August 31, 1889 for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nina Carlisle.
Note: A faint handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Nina Carlisle Nov. 1889."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nina Carlisle.
Note: Information supplied by NAA for the image provides a date of November 1882. However, Nina was not at the school until 1889 and another image apparently taken on the same day was dated November 1889, so we believe that is also the date of this image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution