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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![Thomas Wistar [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-MC-005-f16_1.jpg?itok=ZN8Aq1gG "Thomas Wistar [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Thomas Wistar dressed in school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of the Assistant Superintendent's Quarters with the family posed on the porch.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Jennie Conners probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The Disciplinarians Quarters on the school grounds, with the Disciplinarian and his family posed on the front porch.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Adam McCarty [second pose], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-MC-005-f02.jpg?itok=6Pkizq0p "Adam McCarty [second pose], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Adam McCarty wearing school uniform.
The caption reads: Adam McCarthy
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of the Superintendent's Quarters with two men leaning against the fence in front of the building.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Peliza, Paul Big Horse, and Edward Chouteau [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_037a.jpg?itok=EOfEvB2j "Peliza, Paul Big Horse, and Edward Chouteau [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Peliza, Paul Big Horse, and Edward Chouteau, all wearing school uniforms.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-037a, CS-CH-056, and CS-CH-075.1-.2.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Joshua Given [?] and a male student, c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/73311.jpg?itok=3PvZg4Y- "Joshua Given [?] and a male student, c.1882")
Studio portrait of an adult man with a male student wearing school uniform. The adult man is probably Johsua Given.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of a student identified as Alfred.
The caption reads: Alfred - 3
This is probably either Alfred Brown (Cheyenne, 1879-1883) or Alfred Charko (Wichita, 1882-1883), but there is a chance it could be a student named Alfred who attended Carlisle a little later in the 1880s or 1890s.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Male students posed working in the tin shop.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Otto Zotoum [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-MC-005-f10.jpg?itok=2hncW2NE "Otto Zotoum [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Otto Zotoum wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
White instructor supervising male students in the harness making shop.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth.
The caption reads: Arnold
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of two female students. Previous cataloging by the National Anthropological Archives identified the names Mollie and Lili [?] in the handwritten caption. They are probably Arapaho students Mollie Naalta and Libbie Porter.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Tom Torlino [version 1], 1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74305.jpg?itok=dxKWARjq "Tom Torlino [version 1], 1882")
Studio portrait of Tom Torlino wearing native clothing and ornaments.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has four copies of this image: PA-CH2-004a, BS-CH-008, US-50a, and 12-26-03.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Hospital building and the Disciplinarian's Quarters. This building replaced the original hospital on the school grounds in 1881.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-008, 10A-C-05, and 12-07-05. The caption for 10A-C-05 reads "Hospital, built mainly by Indian apprentices."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Justine La Framboise.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Male student with a male visitor [?], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73437.jpg?itok=ejAwcnP4 "Male student with a male visitor [?], c.1882")
Studio portrait of a male student in uniform with a man wearing a white scarf, probably a visitor.
Previous cataloging from the National Anthropological Archives provided a date of 1894 for this image. It is not clear what this was based on.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Peter Charko.
The caption reads: Peter Cherco
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of ten unidentified male students wearing school uniforms.
Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Omaha nation.
Twenty male Omaha students arrived in August of 1882. A portrait of ten of them was taken and identified as such (see Related Images), so it is possible that this group is the other ten students who arrived at that time.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students in school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Adam McCarty [first pose], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-MC-005-f01.jpg?itok=30292FLF "Adam McCarty [first pose], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Adam McCarty wearing school uniform.
The caption reads: Adam McCarty
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Baptiste Bayhylle and his son Louis Bayhylle [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73451.jpg?itok=Fb7dTQUE "Baptiste Bayhylle and his son Louis Bayhylle [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portarit of Baptiste Bayhylle and his son, Louis Bayhylle. Louis is wearing a school uniform. There apperas to be an illegible caption written along the top of the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Baptiste Bayhylle and his son Louis Bayhylle [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_001a.jpg?itok=Z1vAwaqm "Baptiste Bayhylle and his son Louis Bayhylle [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Baptiste Bayhylle and his son Louis Bayhylle. Louis is in a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Louis Bighorse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society