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 Louis Paul in a uniform holding an oboe.
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
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 Hastings Robertson wearing a uniform and holding an English horn.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Joseph Ruiz in a unform holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Joseph Sauve in a uniform with a trombone.
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 Eugene Tibbetts wearing a uniform and holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Daniel Tortuga wearing a uniform and holding a saxophone.
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 Alfred M. Venne in a uniform and holding a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
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 Elijah Wheelock in a uniform posed holding a trombone.
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
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
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
Studio portrait of Phineas Wheelock in a uniform posed holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of George Willard in a uniform posed holding a bassoon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Spencer Williams in a uniform with a trombone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Group portrait of Richard Henry Pratt with a large number of male and female Native Americans and a few white people. There are some children in the group.
Among the group is former student White Buffalo, and it seems likely this is a group of former students who returned, along with Pratt, to attend the school's commencement in 1903, as described in this issue of The Red Man and Helper: RedMan-Helper_v03n26-n27.pdf (dickinson.edu)
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio photograph of the graduating class of 1903.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of eighteen male students, most in baseball uniforms, posed with Glenn Warner and baseball equipment on a field.
The Cumberland County Historical Society identifies the second person from the left in the second row as Fritz Hendricks.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Antonio Lubo in football uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of a large group of seated and standing male and female students, identified as the graduating class of 1904. They are identified in a label attached below the photo.
The label notes that Martha Enos was part of the graduating class but not included in the photo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of student Nikefer Shoushick with Dan Stauffer, both dressed in elaborate Indian costumes.
Note: This is a scan of a photograph in the possession of Robert Weigle, Sr. of Carlisle. The following was written on the back of the photo.
"Dan Stauffer, Fanny Keesecker's brother and Kieffer Shushuck an Indian he knew at the Carlisle Indian School before the school closed about 1914.
Guy L. Keesecker
P. S. Fanny was my mother. Fanny Stauffer married Clem Keesecker, Feb. 24, 1897.
Guy Keesecker
March 9, (?)"
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society