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 Hugh Leider.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thaddeus Redwater wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of three male students and four female students posed around a staircase prop.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Thomas Mooney.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jane Murray (also known as Jane Maria).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Four male students in room-like spaces, standing and plastering on wall areas.
Note: This negative is in the Cumberland County Historical Society's A. A. Line Collection, which contains images either taken or collected by Line. At some point, either during Line's lifetime or later, images from other photographers, including apparently Everett Strong, were integrated into the Line Collection without appropriate attribution. This image is similar to those attributed to Strong. Therefore at this time we cannot be sure which photographer was responsible for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A large number of male students seated in chairs facing a raised platform on which another male student is standing, adressing them. Students with band instruments are seated at the back of the room. The group has been identified as the school's Invincible Society.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A large number of male students seated in chairs facing a raised platform on which another male student is standing, adressing them. Students with band instruments are seated at the back of the room. The group has been identified as the school's Invincible Society.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of the football team, posed with a football labeled '98 and a dog.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has a copy of this image (PA-CH3-080) and has the sitters identified as: back row (l to r): Artie Miller, Jonas Metoxen, Bemus Pierce, Edward Rogers, and Frank Hudson; middle row (l to r) Chauncey Archiquette, Thaddeus Redwater, Edwin Smith, Isaac Seneca, and [Frank] Scott, front row (l to r): Hawley Pierce and Martin Wheelock.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Candid photograph of four young women and one man. It is believed that these are four Alaskan students. Based on other photographs of, it is possible that the young women are (left to right) Tomiclock, Cooki Glook, Annie Coodlalook, and Anna Buck.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of teacher Marianna Burgess with ten unidentified male students and three unidentified female students.
Previous cataloging assigns this image a date of 1898, presumably from a caption scratched on the plate.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of the graduating class of 1898. Students are marked with white numbers that correspond to the typed caption below the image. They are:
1. Cornelius, Cora, 2. Armstrong, Ralph, 3. Odell, Nellie, 4. James, Frank, 5. Barada, Mitchell, 6. Henni, Susie, 7. Blackbear, Joseph, 8. Butler, Clarence, 9. Horn, Lottie, 10. Sickles, Martha, 11. Jamison, Jacob, 12. Complainville, Lillian, 13. Pierce, Edith, 14. Morton, Annie, 15. Flynn, Sarah, 16. McFarland, David, 17. Moore, Rienzi, 18. Peterson, Edward, 19. Thomas, Ellen, 20. Sickles, Caleb, 21. George, Annie, 22. Kamie Owl, Wahneeta, 23. Webster, John, 24. Welch, Wilson
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Fred E. Smith and Sarah Smith.
Note: If the identification of the sitters is correct, this photo must have been taken in November 1898. They only overlapped for one month.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait from December 1898 of Wolf Robe and another Cheyenne chief with seven female students and ten male students. Wolf Robe is the chief seated on the left. William Howling Wolf is standing in the back left corner. Lewis Whiteshield is standing third from the left. Reuben Tahpers is standing fifth from the left, centered between the two chiefs. John Bear Robe is standing second from the right among the young men, and Joseph Blackbear is standing the farthest right. Thaddeua Redwater is seated on the far left next to Chief Wolf Robe. Ella Romero is standing on the far right. Amelia Clark is seated just to the right of the chiefs wearing a lighter colored dress.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait from December 1898 of Wolf Robe and another Cheyenne chief with seven female students and ten male students. Wolf Robe is the chief seated on the left. William Howling Wolf is standing in the back left corner. Lewis Whiteshield is standing third from the left. Reuben Tahpers is standing fifth from the left, centered between the two chiefs. John Bear Robe is standing second from the right among the young men, and Joseph Blackbear is standing the farthest right. Thaddeus Redwater is seated on the far left next to Chief Wolf Robe. Ella Romero is standing on the far right. Amelia Clark is seated just to the right of the chiefs wearing a lighter colored dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Richard Henry Pratt in military uniform with sword, holding a helmet.
This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902). The caption reads: R. H. Pratt. COL. 15th CAVALRY. FATHER OF THE MOVEMENT IN GETTING INDIANS OUT FROM THEIR OLD LIFE INTO CITIZENSHIP.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The school band, posed on the school grounds with conductor Dennison Wheelock standing in the front. There are small inset oval images of Wheelock at top left and Major R. H. Pratt at right.
Note that although this image is annotated as "1902," Dennison Wheelock was not the band leader at that time.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Dennison Wheelock wearing a band uniform and holding a conductor's baton.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
View of the Guard House with two men in uniform standing on the porch.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of fifteen male students and nineteen female students, the graduating class of 1899. According to the label on this photo they are:
Back row: Christian Eastman, Annie Gesis, Joseph Gouge (here J. Jennings Gouge), George Hazlett, Sarah Williams, Chauncey Archiquette, Eliza Smith (here E. Lillian Smith), George Woolfe, Lydia Gardner
Second from the back row: John Limeaux (here probably John Lemieaux), Jennie Brown, Vincent Natalish (here Vincent Natailish), Seichu Atsye, Mary Moon, Jeanette Buckles (here Jeannette M. Buckles), Corbett Lawyer, Lettie Scott (here Lettie B. Scott).
Third row from the back: Clara Price (here Clara B. Price), Jonas Mitchell (here Jonas S. Mitchell), Dollie Wheelock, Louis McDonald (here Louie McDonald), Robert Emmett, Bertha Dye, Stuart Hazlett (here Stuart I. Hazlett), Nettie Horne (here Jeannette A. Horne)
Front row: Cora Wheeler, Thomas Denomie (here Thomas F. Denomie), Rose Duvernay (here Rose Duverney), Edward Peters (here Edward W. Peters), Dahney George (here Dahney Ellen George), Kendall Paul (here S. Kendall Paul), Olive Larch, Etta Catolst, Minnie Finley (here Minnie H. Finley).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Richard Henry Pratt in military uniform with sword, holding a helmet.
This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902. The caption reads: R. H. Pratt. COL. 15th CAVALRY. FATHER OF THE MOVEMENT IN GETTING INDIANS OUT FROM THEIR OLD LIFE INTO CITIZENSHIP.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Female students posed seated at a long table, reading periodicals, in the reading room in the Girls' Quarters.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Woman posed sitting with writing materials in her hands in a room with extensive decorations including Native American objects.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies this as "the Matron's Room, Girls' Department."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the Guard House with two men in uniform standing on the porch.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Reuben Jones.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society