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 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.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Studio portrait of thirteen unidentified female students.

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

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Annie Gesis.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Susan Gibson. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Julia Given.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of seven unidentifield male students with one white boy. The caption for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image identifies the white boy as John Nisley. Cumberland County Historical Society cataloging identifies the students as being from the Crow nation. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Emma Bull Bonnet and Sallie Face both probably wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of George Ell (left) and Anthony Austin (right). 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of a large group of male students, some holding instruments, with a white man in the center of the bottom row. They are posed on the front steps of a building on the school grounds. The caption states that this is the student group, "Invincible Society, 1890." 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-008 and 10-B-32. The latter copy identifies this group as the Invincible Literary Society. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of male students, some in school uniforms and some not, posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds. There is a white man standing at the far right of the group. The caption states that this is the student group "Standard Society, 1890."

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-009 and 10-B-20. In the latter, the group is identified as the Standard Literary Society. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of male students, some in uniform, some not, posed on the school grounds with fence and trees in background. There is a white man in the center of the group. The caption states that this is the student group, "Standard Society, 1890." 

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 55. It is captioned there:  THE STANDARD DEBATING SOCIETY.

The Standards represent the oldest Literary Society of the School and have had under various names twelve years of life. From a very crude beginning, through much coaching and fostering, its members have developed a society of debaters in which live questions of national and international policy, as well as grave ethical questions, are discussed, much to the benefit of the students and the School.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of William Ellis (left) and George Ell (right).

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Mark Evarts. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Joseph Ezhuna. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Eustace Esapoyhet, Frank Everett, and two unidentified young men. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Frank Everett in school uniform. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Colonel Elk Horn. 

A handwritten caption along the top of the image probably reads: Colonel Horn.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of male and female students posed on steps of a building on the school grounds. The caption says that they are "Assiniboine and Yankton Sioux from Fort Peck, Montana." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Minnie Finley. 

Note: This image also contains partial caption information for another photograph.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A composite of 16 photographs of the school. The captions read: Small Boys’ Quarters, Ass’t. Supt’s. Quarters, Superintendent’s Quarters, Chapel, Guard House, Hospital, Disciplinarian’s Quarters, Band Stand, After School, School Building, Large Boys’ Quarters, Christmas Dinner, School Room, Office & Teachers’ Quarters, Gymnasium, Girls’ Quarters, Girls’ Industrial Hall and Dining-room, Shops.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Portrait of a large group of female students with one white woman in the center, posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the Endeavor Society and dates the image to 1890. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-007 and 10-B-21. The caption for the latter copy names the group as the Endeavor Literary Society. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society