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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Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption: "Hopi" Marathon Runner.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption:
"Old War Horses of Old Carlisle"
"Their Accomplishments Never To Fade From the Memories Who Witnessed Their Deeds."
Joe Gilman......(L.E.)
(Chippewa) 1911, '12, '13
Three Worthy Members Of Carlisle's Hall Of Fame...................................
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of eight female students and seven male students posed in front of a school building with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913.
The students are identified as,back row: Francis Eastman, Henry Broker, Montreville Yuda, Fred Sickles, Peter Eastman, and Harrison Smith; middle row: Sylvia Moon, Estelle Bradley; front row: Cora Elm, Anna Hauser, Sadie M. Ingalls, William Garlow, Iva Metoxen, Lida Wheelock, and Lelia Waterman.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption:
"Old War Horses of Old Carlisle"
"Their Accomplishments Never To Fade From the Memories Who Witnessed Their Deeds."
Gus Lookaround... (R.G.)
(Minaminee). 1911, '12, +'13.
Three Worthy Members Of Carlisle's Hall Of Fame...................................
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the Athletic Quarters (formerly the Hospital). Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Athletic Quarters. Once the home of the great Indian athletes of old Carlisle, Penna."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of eight female students, seven male students and one white female teacher, posed on the school grounds with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913.
Note: In the photo of this graduating class posed in front of a building, the students are identified.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students seated for a meal on benches at tables in an open air pavilion with several white men, presumably staff, standing at the ends of the tables. A black male staff member, the cook, is standing at the front left.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of eight female students and seven male students posed in front of a school building with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913. In this version of the image, the woman to the left of the banner is facing to the right. The Cumberland County Historical has another glass plate negative version of this image (00314A#70) in which the woman to the left of the banner is looking directly forward.
In a print version of this image (CCHS 11-A-15), the students are identified. Back row: Francis Eastman, Henry Broker, Montreville Yuda, Fred Sickles, Peter Eastman, and Harrison Smith; middle row: Sylvia Moon, Estelle Bradley; front row: Cora Elm, Anna Hauser, Sadie M. Ingalls, William Garlow, Iva Metoxen, Lida Wheelock, and Lelia Waterman.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Postcard of the new guard house, built on the opposite side of campus from the original guard house, near the Large Boys' Quarters. Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Modernized jail for the incorrigibles."
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Eight male students in uniform, posed on the steps of a building playing trombones. A white man, also in a uniform, stands in the middle.
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Famous Carlisle All American Trombone Choir of 1913. C. M. Stauffer--Director."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of eight female students, seven male students and one white female teacher, posed on the school grounds with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913.
Note: In the photo of this graduating class posed in front of a building, the students are identified.
The Cumberland County Historical Society also owns a print of this image: 13-20-01.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of Robert Hill standing outside in his football uniform.
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Schenadore Hill."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A classroom with four male students and one female student with raised hands, and a white man, also with raised hand.
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Newly Elected Officers (Of 1st Inter-Class Self-Government Established At Carlisle 1913) Taking Oath."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
School employee Mary Yoos and two Native American men (students or staff members) standing on the porch of the Guard House.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note reads: Leslie William Boyd.
Leslie Boyd is James Boyd's son.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Female students Jeanette Pappin, Clemence Le Traille and Blanche Jollie with two male and two female visitors. These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.
According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper: Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground.
A researcher has identifed one of the people in this photo as Two Guns Whitecalf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Female students Jeanette Pappin, Clemence Le Traille and Blanche Jollie with two male and two female visitors. These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.
According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper: Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground.
A researcher has identifed one of the people in this photo as Two Guns Whitecalf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Female students Jeanette Pappin, Clemence Le Traille and Blanche Jollie with two male and two female visitors. These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.
According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper: Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground.
A researcher has identifed one of the people in this photo as Two Guns Whitecalf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note reads: BLACK FEET INDIANS FROM GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. COMMENCEMENT WEEK. INDIAN SCHOOL. CARLISLE. PA.
These are members of a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visiting the school for its commencement in early April of 1913.
According to the school newspaper there were twelve people in this party of visitors. Eleven of them were identified in the paper: Chief Long Time Sleep, Medicine Owl and wife, Chief John Whitecalf, Chief Three Bears, Lazy Boy, John Two Guns and wife, Fred Big Top , Fish Wolf Robe, and Cecelia Ground.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Female student posed with one white man, presumably an interpreter, and three Native Americans.
Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Montana Chiefs . . . Cheyenne, Osage + Sioux . . . Interpreter Greeting a Daughter A Daugther At Carlisle 1913."
Winneshiek appears to be mistaken, as this appears to have been taken on the occasion when a group of Blackfeet dignitaries visited the school for commencement in early April of 1913. Based on comparision with other photos of this occastion (see Related Images) we believe this student is Blanche Jollie.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: CARLISLE STUDENT IN INDIAN DRESS
The handwritten note reads: Rose Lyons
The printed note reads: It isn't often that Indian students appear in native costume at Carlisle, but the accompanying cut is from a picture of Miss Star Eyes, who attracted much attention at this week's commencement by her pretty face and pic-turesque garb.
This image of Miss Star Eyes appears in the Harrisburg Telegraph on April 2, 1913.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
A posed group at Camp Sells, with female students sitting on a log bridge and standing in the water below. More female students and staff are sitting and standing on the shore in front of tents. A banner with "Camp Sells" is strung between two trees.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students seated for a meal on benches at tables in an open air pavilion with female staff standing at the ends of the tables. A black male staff member is standing in the center in the background.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds, with tents and a fire, at Camp Sells.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed standing and sitting in their campgrounds in front of the tents observing a male student playing a violin. A "Camp Sells" banner is partially visible in the background.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging notes that "in the August 1913 booklet about Camp Sells, the violin player is identified as Fred Cardin."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society