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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Female students posed standing at ironing boards in a room with a large cast iron stove in the center, holding irons, and drying racks.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Large group of male students lined up both in front of and behind the school's fire engine on a path with the Girls' Quarters in the background. Female students are standing on the lawn and on the porches of the building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A view of the central campus with female students in the background and a young male student in the foreground.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's description states the label on this image is "Girls at Play."
Format: Lantern Slide
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.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male and female students posed in a wood working classroom with a white female teacher. On the blackboard at the back of the room the word "Sloyd" is visible, indicating that this was a Sloyd classroom.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed working at machines and standing at tables in the shoe shop.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed working at tables in the wagonmaking shop.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the rear of the Industrial Workshop Building, with a few male students in the foreground.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
An empty schoolroom with a teacher's desk and students desks. This is identified in a label as a "Normal School Room."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of five male students and four female students posed on the steps of the court house (now known as the Old Court House) with one white man and one white woman, presumably teachers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of five female students and two male students (in uniform) posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging for this image identifies them as "teachers," so they may be student teachers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of a large group of male and female students with a white woman posed on the school grounds.
In the front row of standing students, the third person from the left has been identified as Edwin Smith, and James E. Johnson is believed to be in the back right corner.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Posed studio photograph of the graduating class of 1900.
Note: Although Eliza Smith's name is on the label for this photograph, the number next to her is not written next to anyone in the photograph. Other documentation also indicates that she actually graduated in 1899.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group of Chiricahua Apache as they arrived from Fort Marion in Florida on April 30, 1887.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Maud Snyder.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mr. Terrance with two male students and seven female students. The caption identifies Terrance and that the students were from the Mohawk nation.
There is a Mr. Terrance mentioned in the student newspapers as being from the Mohawk nation and having three children of his own at the school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: THE FAMOUS INDIAN BAND OF 1901.
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 Hattie Acklin.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Laura Ammon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charlotte (here Lottie) Harris.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mabel Greely.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Pradt and Zenobia Garcia.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The headline reads: Many Indians in the City; Adopt White Man's Ways
The first caption reads: Frank A. Kennedy, Seneca, Who Has Become an Automobile Expert.
The second caption reads: Ezra L. Jacobs of Brooklyn, A Seneca Indian and Descendant of Chief Cornplanter, Who Has Served in the Regular Army and Seen Phillippine Service.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Charles Bent.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society