Images

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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Portrait of Dr. Carlos Montezuma with six women in nursing uniforms seated on the steps of a school building. 

Previous cataloging for the NAA glass plate negative of this image indicates the handwritten caption contains the date September 1893.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-032b and 10B-06-02.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of Dr. Carlos Montezuma with six women in nursing uniforms seated on the steps of a school building.

Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date September 1893.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of three male and two female students. 

The caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this image identifies the group as being Alaskan students. The caption on this version identifies one of the students as Edward Marsden (standing in the back row at left), and provides a date of September 1893. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Large group of male and female students posed in front of the end of a school building. 

Previous cataloging indicates the date November 1893 is scratched into this glass plate. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Large group of male and female students posed in front of the end of a school building.

Previous cataloging indicates the date November 1893 is scratched into the National Anthropological Archives version of this image. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of male students with brass instruments and drums posed on the steps of a school building. The very large drum in the center has "Indian Industrial School. Carlisle, PA." on it. 

Previous cataloging says that the image is dated November 1893.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 35. In this brochure the caption reads:

"THE SCHOOL BAND.

In 1880 a benevolent lady of Boston presented the school with a set of band instruments. Under its present leader, a graduate of the School, it has a recognized place among the good bands of the country, and has performed acceptably before critical audiences in our large cities, notably at the parades in New York and Chicago during the Clumbian Quadra-Centennial."

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Second school building with a few students on porches and a few people in front. 

Previous cataloging provides a date of November 1893 for this image. 

This building was built in 1888, replacing the original school building. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of a large group of male and female students posed on the steps of school building with Richard Henry Pratt and a white woman, presumably a teacher. 

Previous cataloging indicates the caption has a date of November 1893. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of a large group of male and female students in school uniforms posed outside on the school grounds.

Previous cataloging indicates there is a date of November 1893 in the caption. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

A group portrait of a football team, date not known. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of twelve young male students, most in baseball uniforms with "C.C." on the front, posed with baseball equipment. 

Note: The June 15, 1894 Indian Helper states that "The C.C.'s beat a team of little town boys on Saturday by a score of 15 to 21." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of the 1894 football team. Bejamin Caswell, the captain of the team, is in the center holding a football with "94" painted on it.  

In The Red Man vol. 12 no 7 (Sept. Oct. Nov., 1894) this image was included as a supplement and the players identified. Back row: Joseph Irwin (Gros Ventre, Hidatsa), Charles Buck (Piegan), Martin Wheelock (Oneida), Bemus Pierce (Seneca), George Shelafo (Chippewa); Middle row: David McFarland (Nez Perce), Delos Lone Wolf (Kiowa), Benjamin American Horse (Sioux), Harvey Warner (Omaha), Harrison Printup (Tuscarora), Antoine Donnell (Chippewa); Front row: Thomas Schanandore (Oneida), Jonas Metoxen (Oneida), Bejamin Caswell (Chippewa), Anthony Austin (Piegan), Pressly Houk (Piegan).

This image also appears in brochure United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), page 33 with the caption: THE FOOT BALL TEAM has played games with the teams of the Naval Academy, Lehigh University, Bucknell, Dickinson and other colleges, with credit to themselves both for their playing and gentlemanly conduct.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of a large group of male and female students with a white male teacher in the center of the group. The caption identifies them as students who worked in the print shop. 

One copy of this image has the sitters identified. They are, back row, left to right: William Denomie, Robert Hudson, Leroy W. Kennedy, Leander Gansworth, Timothy Henry, W.R. Claudy (Assistnt Printer), John Sanborn, Luther Dahhah, William Dominick, William Lufkins, Sibbald Smith, Clark Gregg; middle row, left to right: Fred A. Wilson, Siceni Nori, Philp Lavatta, Levi Saint Cyr (Foreman), M. Burgess (Sup't of Printing), James Riley Wheelock, Thomas Hanbury, Brigman, John Webster; front row, left to right: George Buck, Pressly Houk, Susie McDougal, Alice Lambert, Ida LaChapelle, James Hill, Samuel Six Killer.    

W. Clandy and Marianna Burgess were staff members.

Note: The name "John" in the lower right of this image is part of a caption for a different image. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH3-057a, BS-CH-041, LE-046, and 13-18-01. 

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 49. The caption for the image is: GROUP OF PRINTERS. 

Students must be fairly well advanced in their school work before they can enter the printing office. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of five unidentified female students and two unidentified male students. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of James Kawaykla wearing uniform.

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

Studio portrait of Peter Dillon. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Mamie Blue Jacket. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Thomas Hanbury.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Effie Spencer wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Martha Sickles and Caleb Sickles.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of William Leighton wearing school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Samuel Six Killer. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Abram Hill. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of a large group of male and female students with a white male teacher in the center of the group. The caption identifies them as students who worked in the print shop.

One copy of this image has the sitters identified. They are, back row, left to right: William Denomie, Robert Hudson, Leroy W. Kennedy, Leander Gansworth, Timothy Henry, W.R. Claudy (Assistnt Printer), John Sanborn, Luther Dahhah, William Dominick, William Lufkins, Sibbald Smith, Clark Gregg; middle row, left to right: Fred A. Wilson, Siceni Nori, Philp Lavatta, Levi Saint Cyr (Foreman), M. Burgess (Sup't of Printing), James Riley Wheelock, Thomas Hanbury, Brigman, John Webster; front row, left to right: George Buck, Pressly Houk, Susie McDougal, Alice Lambert, Ida LaChapelle, James Hill, Samuel Six Killer.

W. Clandy and Marianna Burgess were staff members.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution