Images

Studio portrait of seventeen male students, some wearing school uniforms. The caption for this image identifies them as being from the Pine Ridge reservation. The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society copy identifies them as being from the Sioux nation and provides a date of 1893. 

Studio portrait of Nelson Hare.

Studio portrait of Mary Nelson.

Studio portrait of Emmeline McLane and Celinda Metoxen.

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

Studio portrait of Bunn Armstrong. 

Studio portrait of Benedict Jozhe.

Studio portrait of Celicia Metoxen probably wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of George Running Horse and Alexander Manabove.

Studio portrait of Alpha Scott.

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

Studio portrait of Artie Miller.

Studio portrait of Lizzie Hill.

Studio portrait of John Morrison, Martin Round Face, and James Waldo. Two of them are wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Joseph Spaniard (also known as Joe Spanish). 

Studio portrait of William Brewer and his sister Rachel Brewer, both probably wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Herbert Good Boy. 

Studio portrait of Mary Wilkinson wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Andrew Red Duck.

Portrait of fifteen female students and seventeen male students with two white female teachers posed on the bandstand on the school grounds.

The caption on a print of this image identifies them as the "School Choir, 1893."  

Studio portrait of three male students. 

On the reverse is written: "To Hannah Long Wolf, June 15 1893 From Cousin W. W. Bear." 

Presumably one of the students picture is William White Bear and the others are probably also people from his community. 

Studio portrait of Black Dog, an Osage chief. 

Previous cataloging interprets the handwritten caption as identifying this sitter as Ne-kah-ka-lah with a date of May 1893. 

The Carlisle Indian School exhibit titled Into Civilization and Citizenship at the World's Fair in 1893 held in Chicago, Illinois. The exhibit includes images of students, mannequins representing students, and other artifacts. 

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 38. The caption reads: THE WORLD'S FAIR EXHIBIT.

The exhibit of Carlisle School at the World's Fair compared avorably with the exhibits from other industrial schools of the country, and won for Carlisle diplomas from the Department of Liberal Arts and the Department of Agriculture. The School has also been awarded medals for exhibits made in Paris and Madrid, and other diplomas on less important occasions.

The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this image (PA-CH3-019a). 

It is possible this image was taken by student photographer John Leslie.

Studio portrait of Black Dog, an Osage chief.

Studio portrait of three visiting chiefs with one white man, four male students, and five female students. 

Previous cataloging indicates the date May 1893 is included in the handwritten caption.

Studio portrait of Jennie Tallchief taken while she was on outing with Mrs. Winifield Scott Davidson in Newville, Pennsylvania. Records show Tallchief was on outing there from April 21, 1893 to September 13, 1893. 

The information on the back of the photograph identifies her as "Mrs. Winifield Scott Davidson's Indian girl from the Carlisle Indian School."

Studio portrait of three male students and two female students. They are identified in the caption as being Alaskan. 

The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image identifies one of the people as Edward Marsen (standing in back row at left), and provides a date of September 1893.