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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![School Choir [version 2], 1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_003.jpg?itok=YnF2muTr "School Choir [version 2], 1893")
Portrait of fifteen female students and seventeen male students with two white female teachers posed on the bandstand on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the "School Choir, 1893."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Cloud and Sarah Williams, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Edith Smith wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Elmore Red Eyes and Benjamin American Horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Peter Cadot and David [?], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_043j.jpg?itok=fNK1NnV5 "Peter Cadot and David [?], c.1893")
Studio portrait of Peter Cadot and David [?].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Myron Moses, Hiram Blackchief, and an unidentified young man, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Richard Grant wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hayes Williams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Sanborn and Victor S. Bear. One is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Jerome Kennerly [version 2], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_048a.jpg?itok=x8JHR-Mu "Jerome Kennerly [version 2], c.1893")
Studio portrait of Jerome Kennerly.
Note: Kennerly was six years old when he arrived at the school in 1893.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Johnson Adams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sarah Kennedy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Peter Oscar and Joseph Evans.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David McFarland and Ben Harrison, both in band uniforms, holding musical instruments--one a saxophone and the other a cornet. McFarland is probably on the left holding a saxophone, and Harrison is probably on the right holding a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ella Rickert probably wearing school uniform.
Note: This image also contains caption information for a different photograph.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Amos Osage.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Donald McIntosh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joel Moore and Cora Moore.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jesse Kenjockety.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of a student who is probably George Buck wearing a uniform.
Note: This person was previously identified as George Bull, but we believe he is George Buck.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph American Horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified man.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Robert Hamilton.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Wood-cutting class [version 1], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73414.jpg?itok=Ensfboa7 "Wood-cutting class [version 1], c.1893")
Studio portrait of five female students and six male students identified in the caption as being the wood cutting class.
The school newspaper referenced the wood cutting class in January 1893.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Julia Jonas.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society