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 Joseph Murdock, likely taken during one of his times on outing in Columbia County, near Bloomsburg, PA, between 1900 and 1903.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Libbie Archiquette.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten label on the slide reads: School Assembled
This image is similar to other earlier photographs where the entire student body was gathered on the school grounds and arranged in a careful formation.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Nannie Sturm and Ella Sturm.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Maud Sampson
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Pupils bedroom
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF 1900.
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 Katie Creager (left) and Seichu Atsye (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Ladeaux.
Note: Previous cataloging indicated the student's name in the hand written caption is George Laden.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: CARLYLE COLLEGE
First Indian College for Women
Aunt Pearl
Note: Image donated by Claudia Washburn.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Sosipatra Suvoroff and Irene Suvoroff.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Electa Hill.
Note: It is not known if this is Electa C. Hill or Electa D. Hill, who both attended the school at the same time and were of similar age.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Roan, Raymond Buffalo Meat, and Thomas Perrier.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption on the front of the postcard reads: ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE PA
The only words on the back are standard instructions for placement of the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Richard Henry Pratt posed seated at his desk holding a document.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students in uniform, posed in a row.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View taken from the center of campus showing the Girls' Quarters and the Bandstand, with female students on the grounds.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of the football team. In the version of this image in publications, the players are identified: (L to R): Isaac Seneca (Seneca), William G. Thompson (Coach), Thaddeus Redwater (Cheyenne), Martin Wheelock (Oneida), Frank Scott (Seneca), Glenn Scoby "Pop" Warner (Coach), Jonas Metoxen (Oneida), James E. Johnson (Stockbridge), Artie Miller (Stockbrige), Joseph Scholder (Mission), Bemus Pierce (Seneca), Caleb M. Sickles (Oneida), Edwin Smith (Kallam), Frank Hudson (Pueblo), Edward Lowell Rogers (Chippewa).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
View looking north of what is presumably the entire student body assembled in neat rows on the central campus. Groups of spectators, probably teachers and staff, are standing or sitting around the nearby buildings.
This glass negative appears with a collection of other negatives attributed to photographer M. J. Hoover, but he most likely either made a fresh copy from the original negative, or else he simply acquired the original negative and incorporated into his own collection since the image definitely dates from a time before he was operating as a photographer in the town of Carlisle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
There is no caption on the front of the postcard nor is there anything written on the back. (The back has remnants of glue though.)
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption on the front reads: CAMPUS IN WINTER, U.S. INDIAN SCHOOL CARLISLE PA.
The only words on the back are standardized directions for where to write the address.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
