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 Walter Lee Kennedy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jeanette Rice wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of ten unidentified male students in school uniforms.
Previous cataloging identifies the students as from the Flathead or Salish nation and provides a date of January 189[?]. A group of Flathead students arrived in November 1893, so this is probably that group, taken in January 1894.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Christine (also known as Tenie) Wirth.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Decora and Bedford Forest.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Melinda Metoxen.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Kennedy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Cora Snyder wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ella Rickert and Mary Wilkinson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Julia Ladeaux wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lavinia Adams.
Note: A caption identifies this sitter as Zenia Adams, however that name does not appear in the school records. Therefore, we believe this to be an image of student Lavinia Adams
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Baptiste Marengo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Susie McDougal and Alice Lambert.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David McFarland wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Lufkins.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David Abraham dressed in a uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Perry Tsamanwa.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Annie Lockwood.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two female students.
Note: The caption written on this photo identifies the sitters as Maggie and Kate and provides a date of 1894. It is possible that these are students Maggie Simpson and Kate Stocker, who are shown together in another photograph (Cumberland County Historical Society PA-CH3-020a).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Amy Johnson and Lucy Lowin.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Myron Moses wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Peter Oscar.
The caption written on this image is "Peter Oscar Carpenter." Oscar's file shows that he was trained as and later worked as a carpenter, so this is not part of his name.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Daniel Osage West posed with a bicycle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Wesson Murdock.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David Copperfield (seated at left) and Samuel Barker (standing at right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society