Images

Studio portrait of Thomas Flynn and John Kennedy.

Studio portrait of Harry Hutchinson, John Baptiste, and David Turkey, all probably wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Thomas Guardipee wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Samuel Gruett.

Studio portrait of Stephen Reuben wearing school uniform with a star-shaped pin.

Studio portrait of Katie Grindrod.

Portrait of twenty-one students-eleven male and ten female-posed on the steps outside a brick building, probably on the school grounds. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of the image identifies them as "Crows from the Crow Agency, Montana, who entered the Carlisle Indian School in 1890."

Previous cataloging for this image interprets part of the caption scratched on the plate as giving a date of 1897. 

Studio portrait of Richard Sanderville, William Leighton, and John Frost. Two are wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of William Johnson and William Beaulieu.

Studio portrait of Alexander Upshaw wearing a uniform.

The caption reads: RICHARD DAVIS, CHEYENNE.

The printed note reads: Born 1867 at Sand Creek, Col., entered Carlisle 1879; learned the Printers' trade.  In 1888, married Nannie Aspenall, a Pawnee girl, at Carlisle, and worked for a Penna. farmer engages in raising thoroughbred stock.  He has been in charge of the School herd of 65 thoroughbred and graded animals and the Dairying until the Summer of 1894 when he was appointed District Farmer of the Cheyenne Agency.

Studio portrait of Julia Bent, probably wearing a school uniform.

Portrait of twenty-two students-fifteen male and seven female students--posed on the steps of a brick building, presumably on the school grounds. The caption says that they are "Gros Ventres and Assiniboines, Ft. Belknap, Montana who entered Carlisle, Apr. 1890." 

Portrait of twenty-one students--eleven male and ten female students--posed on the steps outside a brick building, probably on the school grounds. The caption says that they are "Crows from the Crow Agency, Montana, who entered Carlisle Indian School in 1890." 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-079 and 13-21-01.

Studio portrait of Hugh Leider.

Studio portrait of twenty people: one male student, eighteen female students, and one teacher. The caption identifies this as "Music Class, 1891." The NAA copy of this image identifies the teacher as Miss Moore. School records show the music teacher was Annie Moore. 

Studio portrait of a male student who is probably Peter Nahmais.

Studio portrait of Felix Iron Eagle Feather. 

Studio portrait of twenty-three students, fourteen male and nine female students, identified in the caption as "Apache Group, 1891." 

Staff at the Cumberland County Historical Society have identified, based on comparison with other photgraphs, that the following students are in this group: Parker Whitney West, Ernest Hogee, Viola Zieh, Dorothy Dekhlikiseh, Naomi Merkel (Kohten), Janette Woods (Pahgostatum), Annette Suisson, Oswald Smith, Jason Betzinez, and Gail Marko. 

Studio photo of thirteen male students, identified in the caption as being "Osage group, 1891. 

A researcher at the Cumberland County Historical Society identified as the students as:

Top row, left to right: Claude Smith, Frank Penn, Amos Osage, Daniel McDougan. 

Middle row, left to right: Elias Stanton, Harry Kophay, Richard Rusk, Ben Harrison, Fred Penn

Bottom row, left to right: David Copperfield, George Connor, Amos Hamilton, Edgar McCarthy. 

There is no Claude Smith in the school records from the Osage nation. Either this is Sioux student Claude Smith or is it Osage student Chester Smith. 

Studio portrait of twenty people: one male student, eighteen female students, and one teacher. The caption identifies the group of "Miss Moore with her music class." School records show Annie Moore was the music teacher at that time. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of the image dates it to 1891.  

Studio portrait of Isaiah Wasaquam. 

Cameo photographs of seventeen Sioux chiefs, all of whom presumably had visited the school and had their portraits taken by John N. Choate. The grouping is titled "Noted Indians" and has a copyright date of 1891. Each chief is identified by a white tag applied to his lapel. They are identified as: 

Top row, left to right: Spotted Elk, Hollow Horn Bears, Big Road

Second row, left to right: Spotted Horse, Little Wound, Fire Thunder, Grass

Third row, left to right: High Hawk, Good Voice, High Pipe

Fourth row, left to right: Fire Lightening, Quick Bear, American Horse, He Dog (Pine Ridge Agency) 

Bottom row, left to right: Young Man Afraid of His Horses, Two Strikes, He Dog (Rosebud Agency). 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-024 and 12-10-01.

Studio portrait of Ida Wasee.

Studio portrait of Robert Horse.