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 Josiah Redwolf, Lewis Williams, Samuel Tilden, Stephen Reuben, Charles White, and David McFarland. All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Albert Silas wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George No-coch-luke wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_051b.jpg?itok=X3SOkMya "Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Ben Harrison, John Morrison, Charles Dubray, and Martin Round Face [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_000va.jpg?itok=dbuHTZKU "Ben Harrison, John Morrison, Charles Dubray, and Martin Round Face [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of John Morrison, Martin Round Face, Charles Dubray, and Ben Harrison posed holding "Indian club" exercise equipment. One (probably John Morrison) is wearing a shirt with the monogram "C.I.T.S."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bunn Armstrong.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Emmeline McLane.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Maggie Simpson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jonas Mitchell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sarah Nelson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Running Horse and George Ladeaux.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Officers group [version 1], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73472.jpg?itok=V7TbHG8v "Officers group [version 1], 1892")
Portrait of a large group of male students in uniforms, accompanied by a white man in the center of the bottom row, posed on the steps of one of the student quarters on the school grounds.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image has a caption identifying the students as an Officers Group and providing a date of 1892. This plate also has 1892 scratched into it.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Albert Sitting Eagle [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_030C.jpg?itok=f0wrencL "Albert Sitting Eagle [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Albert Sitting Eagle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73804.jpg?itok=KVs93UC_ "Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Rachel Tsikahda Morgan and Melinda Porter, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Charlotte Wilson [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74099.jpg?itok=Z5BTYm7h "Charlotte Wilson [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Charlotte Wilson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Joseph Morrison and James R. Wheelock [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74083.jpg?itok=fDeC5VQe "Joseph Morrison and James R. Wheelock [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Joseph Morrison (left) and James R. Wheelock (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Darwin Hayes, Wesson Murdock, Jacob Little Man, and Philip Pratt. Three are in school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nancy Wheelock and Elijah Wheelock. Elijah is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of eight female students. The caption identifies them as "Pupil teachers, 1892."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 2], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_040.jpg?itok=1W76-9vR "Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 2], 1892")
Portrait of a large group of male students in front of YMCA building, presumably the members of the YMCA. The date 1892 is written along the side of this image.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 1], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73475.jpg?itok=p_rx8dP2 "Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 1], 1892")
Portrait of a large group of male students in front of YMCA building, presumably the members of the YMCA.
On the Cumberland County Historical Society's print of this image the date 1892 is written along the side.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![James Waldo [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74206.jpg?itok=_u1PVDkE "James Waldo [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of James Waldo.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Martino Vallo.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Albert Sitting Eagle [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74089.jpg?itok=AohdPh5i "Albert Sitting Eagle [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Albert Sitting Eagle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution