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 Henry Kendall.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth and Theodore North, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
![Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_069a.jpg?itok=ra3umS8u "Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Thomas Wistar [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch022.jpg?itok=l2tMx6lg "Thomas Wistar [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Thomas Wistar wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lena Carr and Harry Marmon with staff [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73417.jpg?itok=VYJUHfcY "Lena Carr and Harry Marmon with staff [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Lena Carr (seated) and Harry Marmon (standing at right) with staff members Miss Mary R. Hyde (standing in rear at left) and Miss Shiverick (standing in rear at right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Benjamin Marshall [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73528.jpg?itok=dtOblE7V "Benjamin Marshall [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Benjamin Marshall.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![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
![Carl Matches [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74323.jpg?itok=2WUBJ00C "Carl Matches [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Carl Matches wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Antoinette Williams and Nellie Carey [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_074b.jpg?itok=FwM76l-j "Antoinette Williams and Nellie Carey [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Antoinette Williams and Nellie Carey.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
![Phillips White (Phillips Bob Tail) [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_089a.jpg?itok=HJvMpy2n "Phillips White (Phillips Bob Tail) [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Phillips White (Phillips Bob Tail).
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
![Five young female Osage students [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_040a.jpg?itok=O6bDP4nd "Five young female Osage students [version 2], 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: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73386.jpg?itok=egLWpyR- "Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Big Bow [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_012b.jpg?itok=QJcgZkS0 "Big Bow [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Big Bow, a Kiowa chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Michael Burns.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![William B. Peery [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_012a.jpg?itok=WWTFpD_2 "William B. Peery [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of William B. Peery wearing school uniform.
Note: In the copy of this image at the American Philosophical Society the student is identified as "William Peary, Peoria."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Peter Charko.
The caption reads: Peter Cherco
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
The caption reads: Rob [?] and [illegible]
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Left Hand (seated at left), Carl Matches (standing in center), and Short Teeth (seated at right).
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
![Emily Ross and Ella Ross [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74090.jpg?itok=BxuUJDTk "Emily Ross and Ella Ross [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Emily Ross and Ella Ross, both wearing white pinafores over dark dresses.
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