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 Cynthia Cooper wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Moses Sawtrom wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Wolf wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sophia American Horse.
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 Christine Redstone, probably wearing school 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 Bessie Nick (back left), Chiltoski Nick (back right), Minnie Nick (front left), and Hattie Woodfin (front right).
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
![Jonah Penasa [?], c.1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73678.jpg?itok=NfRbtjgM "Jonah Penasa [?], c.1897")
Studio portrait of Jonah Penasa [?] wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Casper Alford.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank White Eyes and Uriah Goodcane, both wearing school uniforms.
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
Studio portrait of Melinda Porter wearing school uniform.
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 Mary Wolfe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Odell La Fleur wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Nerva wearing school uniform.
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