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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Studio portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students. 

The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF ’97. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

Samuel Gruett, Chippewa. Rob’t. Depoe, Siletz. Clarence Whitethunder, Sioux. Edw. Rogers, Chippewa. Brigman Cornelius, Oneida. Mary Miller, Chippewa. Frank Jones, Sac & Fox. Wm Sherrill, Cherokee. Chas. Mishler, Chippewa. Henry Redkettle, Sioux. Lizzie Hill, Sioux. Grace Redeagle, Quapaw. Mabel Buck, Sioux. Julia Williams, Chippewa. Martha Owl, Cherokee. Annie Kowuni, Pueblo. Alexander Upshaw, Crow. Nancy Seneca, Seneca. Clark Smith, Klamath. Edith M. Smith, Tuscarora. Albert Nash, Winnebago. Sara Smith, Oneida. Frank S. Shively, Crow. Olive Miller, Stockbridge. Christine Wirth, Assinaboine. Louis Mishler, Chippewa.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has a copy of this image: 11-A-07. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Samuel Ortley wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Joseph Schuyler.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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 Moses Sawtrom wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption reads: ESKIMO GROUP. AS THEY ENTERED CARLISLE IN 1897. AS THEY APPEAR IN SCHOOL DRESS. 

They are Annie Coodlalook, Cooki Glook, Anna Buck, Esenetuck, Tomiclock, and Laublock. All are wearing cloaks with fur-lined hoods.  

This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Mark Hopkins.

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 Louisa Provost. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a visting chief shaking hands with Richard Henry Pratt posed on the school grounds with a group of thirteen female students and seventeen male students. A white woman, probably a teacher, with a parasol or umbrella can be seen in the background near a school building. 

Previous cataloging, presumably interpreting caption information scratched on the plate, indicates the chief is American Horse and the date is 1897. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Juanita Bibancos. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of William Howling Wolf (right) and Lewis Whiteshield (left). Whiteshield is wearing a school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Louisa Ance, Annie Carl, and Jane Mark.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Amy Dolphus and Clara Price.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Nettie Horne, Lottie Horne, and Jacob Horne. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Rose DuVernay wearing a floral corsage or accessory. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Jane Mark (on left) and Josie Mark (on right).

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of five unidentified male students. The handwritten caption identifies them as being from the Chippewa nation. 

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

Group portrait of a large group of male and female students with white teachers. The Cumberland County Historical Society identifies this as the school's choir. 

Dennison Wheelock is in the back row, third from the left. Albert Nash is in the third row from the back, second from the right, with his hat in his left hand. Augusta Nash is believed to be in the second row from the front, fourth from the right, in the center.

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of fourteen unidentified male students and seven unidentified female students with a white woman, presumbaly a teacher. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

A white man posed shoveling coal into a boiler in the boiler room. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of five unidentified young female students, one unidentified young male student, and an unidentified white woman, probably a teacher. The boy is wearing a uniform and the girls are all wearing dressed made from a striped fabric.

Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date August 1897.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The handwritten note reads: ALASKAN INDIANS.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Pupils from Alaska   AS THEY ARRIVED AT CARLISLE IN THE FALL OF 1897     SEE REDMAN, JUNE 1899.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption reads: COACHING THE CARLISLE INDIANS AT FOOT-BALL.

Bemis Pierce, captain and right guard. Smith, centre. Redwater, left guard.

This image appears in Leslie's Weekly Illustrated vol. 85, no. 2199 (November 4, 1897).

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections