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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![Native American man with nine students [version 1], c.1882](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73229.jpg?itok=2jhYXsNl "Native American man with nine students [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of a Native American man, presumably a visiting chief or father, with three male and six female students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Native American man with nine students [version 2], c.1882](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_009a.jpg?itok=ECwAVphf "Native American man with nine students [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of a Native American man, presumably a father or chief, with three male and six female students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Ten Omaha male students [version 2], c.1882](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_043b.jpg?itok=L00tDkDY "Ten Omaha male students [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of ten male students, all wearing school uniforms. The caption identifies them as being from the Omaha nation and arriveiving in August 1882.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-043b and PA-CH2-013a.
Records show twenty male students from the Omaha nation arriving at this time. It is possible that the other ten are the sitters in another image from the National Anthropological Archives (NAA_74310; Photo Lot 81-12 06908100).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Peliza, Paul Big Horse, and Edward Chouteau [version 2], c.1882](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_037a.jpg?itok=ZIYaayQe "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
![Five young female Osage students [version 1], c.1882](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73435.jpg?itok=ByySK30_ "Five young female Osage students [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of five young female students, all wearing school uniforms with white pinafores. They are Alice Long Pole, Julia Pryor, Metopa, Josephine Pryor, and Myrtie Tallchief.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Ten Omaha male students [version 1], c.1882](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73333.jpg?itok=kCtZzQ-y "Ten Omaha male students [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of ten male students all wearing school uniforms. The caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this image states they came from the Omaha nation and arrived in August 1882.
Records show twenty male students from the Omaha nation arriving at this time. It is possible that the other ten are the sitters in another image from the National Anthropological Archives (NAA_74310; Photo Lot 81-12 06908100).
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
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students in school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of six unidentified young male students in school uniforms posed around a studio prop of a window with teacher Miss Shiverick.
School records show Harriet Hyde Shiverick was Matron of Boys from 1881 to 1882.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 seven unidentified male students and five unidentified female students with a white woman, presumably a teacher.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Joshua Given [?] and a male student, c.1882](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/73311.jpg?itok=WqQyvBKr "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
![Male student with a male visitor [?], c.1882](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73437.jpg?itok=MRgfRM4U "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 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
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
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
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
View of the Assistant Superintendent's Quarters with the family posed on the porch.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
White instructor supervising male students in the harness making shop.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Male students posed working in the tin shop.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
This caption reads: TOM TORLINO – NAVAJO. AS HE ENTERED THE SCHOOL IN 1882. AS HE APPEARED THREE YEARS LATER.
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
![Tom Torlino [version 3], 1882](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NARA_1327_b018_f0872_001.jpg?itok=mjHh9J4i "Tom Torlino [version 3], 1882")
Studio portrait of Tom Torlino wearing native clothing and ornaments.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Tom Torlino, Navajoe.
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: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Standing Bear, a Sioux chief, with his son Luther Standing Bear, and Red Fish, another Sioux chief.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: 1 Standing Bear, 2 Standing Bear’s Son Luther, 3 Red Fish. Sioux.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of White Buffalo.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: White Buffalo. Cheyenne.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this image: PA-CH2-092b.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Adam McCarty [first pose], c.1882](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-MC-005-f01.jpg?itok=D0UJoxEV "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