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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![Seventeen print shop workers [version 1], 1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73642.jpg?itok=G1EAdl6- "Seventeen print shop workers [version 1], 1890")
Studio portrait of seventeen male students, identified as "printer boys."
The National Anthropological Archives has two negatives of this image: NAA 73642 and NAA 73382.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image has the date 1890 in the caption.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of thirteen unidentified male students and twelve unidentified female students dressed formally and posed on the school grounds.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms. A handwritten caption identifies them as "Apache girls."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Seventeen print shop workers [version 2], 1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_058d.jpg?itok=e1Ik2JJ0 "Seventeen print shop workers [version 2], 1890")
Studio portrait of seventeen male students, identified as "printer boys."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-058d and CS-CH-084.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Sarah Walker [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch010.jpg?itok=vPY2NvWR "Sarah Walker [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Sarah Walker.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified young male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Seven male Crow students with John Nisely [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch081.jpg?itok=Wvgix2sd "Seven male Crow students with John Nisely [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of seven unidentifield male students with one white boy. The caption for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image identifies the white boy as John Nisley. Cumberland County Historical Society cataloging identifies the students as being from the Crow nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Julia Given.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Susan Gibson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of twelve young male students, all in school uniforms. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as "Pueblo and other Indian students."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note reads: Capt Pratt. Supt of Indian School Carlisle Pa.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Emily Guitar and Lucy Guitar.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Otto Zotoum, Levi St. Cyr, Chauncey Yellow Robe, and John Tyler [version 1], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74233.jpg?itok=fJ7oe6ef "Otto Zotoum, Levi St. Cyr, Chauncey Yellow Robe, and John Tyler [version 1], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Otto Zotoum, Levi St. Cyr, Chauncey Yellow Robe (also known as Timber Yellow Robe), and John Tyler.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of a Native American man. A later caption identifies him as "Na-chi-si, New Mexico Apache." Presumably he was a chief visiting the school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Otto Zotoum, Levi St. Cyr, Chauncey Yellow Robe, and John Tyler [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch057.jpg?itok=X5Ucohzw "Otto Zotoum, Levi St. Cyr, Chauncey Yellow Robe, and John Tyler [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Otto Zotoum, Levi St. Cyr, Chauncey Yellow Robe (also known as Timber Yellow Robe), and John Tyler.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Wounded Yellow Robe (also known as Richard Yellow Robe), Henry Standing Bear, and Chauncey Yellow Robe (also known as Timber Yellow Robe).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Carefelle wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lydia Gardner, Nannie Little Robe, and Ethel Black Wolf [version 1], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73400.jpg?itok=NpzZdKna "Lydia Gardner, Nannie Little Robe, and Ethel Black Wolf [version 1], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Lydia Gardner, Nannie Little Robe, and Ethel Black Wolf.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Peter Cornelius (on left) and William Baird (on right).
A partially illegible handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Peter Cornelius and William Baird.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Nineteen Arapaho students [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_bsch035.jpg?itok=MxaCUE52 "Nineteen Arapaho students [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of sixteen male students and three female students. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as from the Arapaho nation. No date is provided.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students wearing uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Teachers club with tables set with table clothes. Radiator in the background along with exposed light bulb hanging from the ceiling.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of four unidentified male students and five unidentified female students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution