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

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Siceni Nori. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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 two unidentified male students wearing uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of two unidentified young male students.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Teachers club with tables set with table clothes. Radiator in the background along with exposed light bulb hanging from the ceiling.

 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Lydia Gardner.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of nine students and three female students. The caption identifies them as being from the Cheyenne nation.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms. A handwritten caption identifies them as "Apache girls." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of sixteen male students and four female students, all wearing school uniforms. 

The handwritten caption on this album page, located between PA-CH-014a and this image (PA-CH2-14c) reads "Crow groups," so it is presumed that both of these groups of students are from the Crow nation. The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image also identifies them as Crow students.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Robert Tome [?] in school uniform.

Note: This student was previous identified as Robert Thomas. There are no records of a student with that name so it seems likely that he is Robert Tome. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of sixteen male students and four female students, all wearing school uniforms. Previous cataloging interprets the caption for this image, scratched into the plate, as saying they are from the Crow nation. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of thirteen male and five female students, the second graduating class in 1890. 

They are, back row, left to right: William Tivis, Jemima Wheelock, Dennison Wheelock, Stacy Matlock, Levi Levering, Veronica Holliday, Benjamin Lawry; middle row, left to right: George Means, Howard Logan, George Vallier (standing), William Morgan (standing), Carl Leider, Percy Zadoka, Benjamin Thomas; front row, left to right: Lawrence Smith, Rosa Bourassa, Nellie Robertson, Julia Bent. 

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 17 and the Cumberland County Historical Society has four prints: PA-CH2-083, 10B-07-01, 11-A-01, and 15-21-01. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

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 Benjamin American Horse wearing a school uniform. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The handwritten note reads: Capt Pratt. Supt of Indian School Carlisle Pa.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Leila Cornelius.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of nine male student and three female students. The caption identifies them as being from the Cheyenne nation. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Louis Caswell (left) and Benjamin Caswell (right).  

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution