Image Collection
The Image Collection 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 Persis Big Hair wearing a school uniform. Handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Persis Big Hair, February 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Meta Atsye in school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Meta Atsye, Feburary 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The handwritten note reads: Kate Irvine Kinghune and Eunice Suison
The infants in this image are also known as Katie Kinzhuna and Eunice Suison, respectively. This image is believed to have been taken in February, 1888.
This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Fanny Bird wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The top printed notes read: EDWIN SCHANANDORE, ONEIDA. Entered Carlisle 1885 Is Employed as BAKER and BAND LEADER.
The bottom printed notes read: Graduated Class 1889. At Cherokee School North Carolina.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Hector Cat with four unidentified young men. Three of them wear school uniforms, two are wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
The caption reads: THE FIRST CLASS OF GRADUATES.
The printed note reads: Frank Dorian (Iowa). Wm. F. Campbell (Chippewa). Thomas Wistar (Ottawa). Kish Hawkins (Cheyenne). Joel Tyndall (Omaha). Edwin Schanandore (Oneida). Jos. B. Harris (Gros Ventre). Eva Johnson (Wyandotte). Lilly Cornelius (Oneida). Julia Powlas (Oneida). Esther Miller (Miami). Clara Farber (Wyandotte). Katie Grindrod (Wyandotte). Cecilia Londrosh (Winnebago).
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), 16.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of William Baird and Angelina Baird dressed in non-native clothes. Handwritten 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 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, wearing non-native clothes, and Bedell seated at right, wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Paul Boynton wearing non-native clothes. A handwritten caption written along the side of the image probably reads: Paul Boynton, November 1889.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nina Carlisle wearing non-native clothing.
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 wearing non-native clothing.
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
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.
The handwritten note reads: Buildings of Government Indian School at Carlisle, Pa.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Josiah Archiquette wearing school uniform.
Note: This sitter in this image was previously identified as Joshua Archiquette. However, there is no student by that name in the school records. Therefore, we now believe this to be Josiah Archiquette.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The captions in the top row from left to right read: Small Boys' Quarters Ass't. Supt's. Quarters Superintendent's Quarters Chapel Guard House
The captions in the top midde row from left to right read: Hospital Disciplinarian's Quarters Band Stand After School School Building
The captions in the bottom middle row from left to right read: Large Boys' Quarters Christmas Dinner. School Room Office & Teachers' Quarters
The captions in the bottom row from left to right read: Gymnasium Girls' Quarters Girls' Industrial Hall and Dining-room Shops.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Benjamin Caswell wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The printed note reads: HENRY PHILLIPS, THLINKET from Alaska, Entered Carlisle 1887 from Presbyterian Mission at Sitka; learned the Printers trade, and worked for some time in a machinist's shop doing good work; returned to Alaska 1892 continuing work as a machinist in Juneau.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: 44. Bruce Patterson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
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
Studio portrait of Louis Caswell (left) and Benjamin Caswell (right) both wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note reads: Pueblos Harvey Townsend Sheldon Jackson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Jessie Bitter wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Pueblo girls, c.1890 [after]](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/Rowe_G_06a.jpg?itok=MDXOxKde "Pueblo girls, c.1890 [after]")
The caption reads: The same Pueblo girls are seen in the photograph above, six months after arrival at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: After
This image was shared courtesy of Robert R. Rowe.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Robert R. Rowe Private Collection
The caption reads: Graduating Class, 1890. Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.
William Tivis, Comanche. Jemima Wheelock, Oneida. Dennison Wheelock, Oneida. Stacy Matlack, Pawnee. Levi Levering, Omaha. Veronica Holliday, Chippewa. Benjamin Lawry, Winnebago. George Means, Sioux. Howard Logan, Winnebago. George Vallier, Quapaw. William Morgan, Pawnee. Carl Leider, Crow. Percy Zadoka, Keechi. Benjamin Thomas, Pueblo. Lawrence Smith, Winnebago. Rosa Bourassa, Chippewa. Nellie Robertson, Sioux. Julia Bent, Cheyenne.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections