Images

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

Studio portrait of Nina Carlisle.

Note: A faint handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Nina Carlisle Nov. 1889." 

Studio portrait of Levi St. Cyr holding a hat. 

The caption reads: LEVI ST CYR, WINNEBAGO. Entered Carlisle 1887, aged 16. Graduated 1891; learned the Printer's trade, and is now Assistant Printer in the Carlisle School Office - Is also a member of the band.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: [Nellie Robertson] (5248) (16)

Studio portrait of seven visiting chiefs with two older Native American men (possibly also chiefs) and three male students. 

Studio portrait of five unidentified male students: three younger boys wearing school uniforms, and two older male students. 

Previous cataloging interprets part of the caption as reading James. 

Studio portrait of Paul Good Bear (standing) with Thomas W. Potter (seated). 

Note: Potter was employed first as a teacher at the school from Oct. 1889 to Jan. 1890, and then as storekeeper from Feb. to Apr. 1890. 

Studio portrait of Lydia Gardner.

Studio portrait of nine male students, identified by the caption as being from the Nez Perce nation.

Studio portrait of Rose Howell possibly wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Sarah Walker. 

Note: In the Descriptive Statement of Pupils from Omaha and Winnebago Agency, September 19, 1890, a check mark appears next to the entry for Sarah Walker. Sarah Walker is the only student listed on this document who is not also listed in the admissions ledger, so it seems likely that, for whatever reason, Sarah Walker did not actually enroll at Carlisle.

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing glasses and a suit and tie.

Studio portrait of Morgan Toprock (left) and Jonas Place (right).

Studio portrait of Malpass Cloud and an unidentified young man, both wearing school uniforms. 

Studio portrait of an infant posed in a cradleboard. 

Version 1 of this image (linked to in Related Images) is a glass plate negative of a photograph of a photograph with the handwritten caption "Kiowa Pappoose." This image may have been taken of page 34 of Album 2 of the "Indian School Albums" now in the collection of the Cumberland County Historical Society (PA-CH2-034b), or it may have been taken before the print was added to the album. 

This photograph was originally taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston, probably at the Hampton Institute in 1899 when Johnston was there taking photographs of the Native American students. The image in the album may be a copy of the Johnston image, included among the images of Carlisle students, or it may be a copy made by Choate of the Johnston image, copied here again by Choate. 

This version is a print produced by Choate's studio. There is no indication that Choate credited Johnston for the original image. This was one of the photographs offered as a premium beginning in 1890 to subscribers of the school's Indian Helper newspaper, as were other photographs produced by (the others originally taken by) Choate. Those advertisements refer to this image as "pretty faced pappoose in Indian cradle."

Copies of the Johnston image are held by the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98519390/) and the Museum of Modern Art (https://www.moma.org/collection/works/57142). 

Studio portrait of thirteen unidentified female students.

Note: Previous cataloging states the handwritten caption says they are from the La Pointe reservation. 

Studio portrait of Chapo Geronimo and an unidentified young man, both with decorative beaded canes. 

Portrait of thirteen unidentified male students and twelve unidentified female students dressed formally and posed on the school grounds. 

Studio portrait of Annie Gesis.

Studio portrait of sixteen male students and three female students. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as from the Arapaho nation. No date is provided. 

Studio portrait of twelve male students. The caption says they are "Pine Ridge Sioux" and identifies them as: 

Front row, seated: Thomas Black Bear, Alexander Man Above, Charles Smith, Andrew Beard, Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, and Phillip White.

Back row, standing: Samuel C. Deon, James One Star, Howard Slow Bull, Charles Brave, and Willis Black Bear. 

Studio portrait of twelve young male students, all in school uniforms. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as "Pueblo and other Indian students."