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 Melinda Porter wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Ortley wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Pontiac.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Newton Pierce (left) and Willie Parker, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Linas Pierce.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Edith Pierce (left) and Nettie Horne (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martha Owl.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Russell Whitebear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lapolio Cheago probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Eugene Cheago.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Rooks.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of John Webster, Delia Webster, Cynthia Webster, and Lewis Webster.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bert Charles.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Cayou wearing a football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Christine Redstone and Olive Larch, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Wolfe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Marshall.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two visiting chiefs with two female students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 2], 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_101.jpg?itok=4e4ntfH0 "Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 2], 1897")
Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. They are: Back Row, Left to Right: Gruett, Samuel, Chippewa /Depoe, Robert, Siletz/Whitethunder, Clarence, Sioux, /Roger, Edward, Chippewa, /Brigman, Cornelius, Oneida, /Miller, Mary, Chippewa, /Jones, Frank, Sac and Fox, /Sherrill, William, Cherokee, /Mishler, Charles, Charles,
Second Row: Hill, Lizzie, Sioux, /Red Eagle, Grace, Quapaw, /Buck, Mabel, Sioux; Third Row: Red Kettle, Henry, Sioux, /Owl, Martha, Cherokee, /Kowuni, Annie, Pueblo, /Upshaw, Alexander, Crow, /Seneca, Nancy, Seneca, /Smith, Clark, Klamath, /Smith, Edith M., Tuscarora, /Williams, Julia, Chippewa; Front Row: Smith, Sarah, Oneida, /Shively, Frank S., Crow, /Miller, Olive, Stockbridge, /Wirth, Tenie, Assiniboin, /Mishler, Louis, Chippewa, /Nash, Albert, Winnebago/
This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-101, 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Laura Parker, Juanada Parker, Esther Parker (rear center), and Harold Parker.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Wolfe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: A. H. Nash.
Albert Henry Nash in a Carlisle sweater.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Christine Redstone, probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Jassan.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-048f and PA-CH3-031i.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society