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 Charles McKee in a uniform holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of William Paul in a uniform with an oboe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Louis Paul in a uniform holding an oboe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Lawrence Mitchell in a uniform holding a baritone saxophone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Pedro Enrique Musignac (identified here as Peter Musique) in a uniform holding a piccolo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Chiltoski Nick in a uniform holding a French horn.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Willard Gansworth in a uniform holding a flute.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Raleigh (Rollo) Jackson in a uniform holding a trombone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Twelve female students wearing dark uniforms with "1903" on the front and baseball-style caps. They are posed in a semicircle, the three in the middle with their feet on a basketball with "1903" written on it.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Spencer Williams in a uniform with a trombone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio potrait of Henry Markistum in a uniform and holding a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Frank Yarlot in a uniform holding a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Truman Doxtator in a uniform posed with a drum and timpani.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Daniel Eagle in a uniform posed with a large drum and a cymbal.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Eugene Fisher in a uniform holding a sousaphone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Photograph of a photograph of five male students in track clothing, posed outside, holding a banner from the "University of Pennsylvania 9th Annual Relay Races, 1903" with the participating teams listed.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Jollie in a uniform holding a sousaphone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Thomas Griffin in a uniform holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Henry Tatiyopa wearing a uniform and holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of William Mahone in a uniform and holding a trumpet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Photograph of a studio portrait of a large group of male and female students. At least one person, a male student, appears to have been added to the photograph after it was taken. The handwritten caption seems to say "Class 1903."
The National Anthropological Archives has two versions of this image, both photographs of a photograph: NAA 73661; Photo Lot 81-12 06843500 and NAA 73663; Photo Lot 81-12 06843700.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sewing instructor Elizabeth Searight posed outdoors with twelve female students wearing school uniforms.
Searight worked at the school from roughtly 1901 to 1915.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Oliver Exendine in a uniform holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Thomas Eagleman in a uniform holding bass clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Oscar Davis in a uniform holding a bassoon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center