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Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.

Student portrait of an unidentified male student.

Studio portrait of Clay Domieah. 

The Mishler family sits for a portrait around 1890. Two members of the Mishler family, Louis Jr. and Charles, would attend the Carlisle Indian School.

Standing, left to right: Charles Mishler, Louis Mishler Jr.

Sitting, left to right: Louis Mishler Sr., [unidentified], Margaret McCarthy Mishler

This image was digitized from the private collection of Pat Monroe, descendant of Louis Mishler.

Studio portrait of three unidentified male students.

Studio portrait of Joseph H. Hamilton.

Studio portrait of two unidentified female students, one holding a circular fan. 

Studio portrait of Leila Cornelius.

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." 

Studio portrait of Benjamin Caswell 

Handwritten caption along side of image probably reads: Benjamin Caswell.

A composite of different Carlisle Indian School images from around 1890.

Studio portrait of seven unidentified male students with one white boy. The caption for this image identifies the white boy as John Nisley. The Cumberland County Historical Society identifies the students as Crow in their copy of this image. 

Studio portrait of David Abraham dressed in a uniform, probably a band uniform.

A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: David Abraham

Studio portrait of Rose Aubrey and Alice Aubrey.

Handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Rose and Alice Aubrey.

Note: Rose was one year younger than Alice, and so is probably the girl on the left. 

Studio portrait of seven unidentified male students. 

Studio portrait of Carrie Cornelius.

Studio portrait of Margaret Yates.

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 on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image states that this is the student group Invincible Society, 1890.

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 an unidentified female student.

Studio portrait of Peter Cornelius wearing a uniform holding a cornet. 

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student. 

Studio portrait of Charles Buck. 

Note: This image also contains partial caption information for other photographs.

Studio portrait of Peter Cornelius wearing a uniform and holding a cornet. 

Studio portrait of sixteen male students and three female students. The caption identifies them as from the Arapaho tribe.