Images
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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![Grace Cook with her father [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0055.jpg?itok=OfAzvH8K "Grace Cook with her father [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Cook and his daughter, student Grace Cook.
The handwritten caption reads: Cook - and. Daughter -
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-017b and CS-CH-045.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Indian School students Amos Lone Hill, Joseph Gun, Philip (Kills), Ellwood Dorian, Carlos, Walter Matches, Oscar Bull Bear, and Ralph Iron Eagle Feather and staff members Samuel Wetzel and E.B. Strait working on the roof of one of the school buildings.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: CS-CH-096 and 14-07-02.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Valentine McKenzie.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73594.jpg?itok=BR0p09xu "Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) wearing native dress.
Note: This is an example of Choate taking a photograph of another photograph. Previous cataloging says she is wearing an elk-tooth dress, blanket, and dentalium shell earrings.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Five Sioux girls [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74321.jpg?itok=ugh13bmd "Five Sioux girls [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Ruth (Looking Woman), Hattie Long Wolf, Anna Laura, Grace Cook, and Stella Berht.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The individual in this carte de visite has not been identified.
This image was shared courtesy of Robert R. Rowe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Robert R. Rowe Private Collection
The caption reads: Cheyenne Chief (Manemic) one of Florida prisoners
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Minimic Chief of Comanche Indians from a painting by J. Wells Champney, at Ft Marion, Florida
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
A posed group of male students in the Carlisle Indian School tin shop with their instructor and Richard Henry Pratt. They are, from left to right: Charles Oheltoint, Richard Henry Pratt, Henry Roman Nose, Paul Black Bear, J.H. Curtain (instructor), Ernest, and Koba.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Darlington [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74269.jpg?itok=T19Nh0wR "Darlington [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Darlington wearing school uniform.
Handwritten caption along bottom edge of image probably reads: Darlington.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Chief Big Horse and Hubbell Big Horse [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_028b.jpg?itok=TpoBKF66 "Chief Big Horse and Hubbell Big Horse [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Chief Big Horse and his son, Hubbell Big Horse. Chief Big Horse wears traditional clothes and Hubbell is in a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Etadleuh Doanmoe.
The caption reads: Etahdleuh
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_082b.jpg?itok=Gh_auogw "Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Bob Tail with his son Joseph Bobtail, who is dressed in a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Justine La Framboise [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_024a.jpg?itok=0hMrQYVt "Justine La Framboise [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Justine La Framboise.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Students Samuel High Bear and Guy (Bear Don't Scare) working at the bakery. This is a posed photo of them loading loaves of bread on a wheelbarrow outside the bakery.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-084c and CS-CH-099.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Stella Berht.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_022c.jpg?itok=Lq5ihXfX "Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville, all wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Fanny and Dora both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74254.jpg?itok=2us6viAI "Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise, both wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Luther Standing Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Five young male Sioux students [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_021c.jpg?itok=1BsVmdsF "Five young male Sioux students [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of (back row, left to right): David (Kills Without Wounding), Nathan (Ear), Pollock Spotted Tail; and (front row, left to right): Marshall (Marshall Bad Milk), and Hugh (Running Horse). All are wearing school uniforms
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-021c, 10-B-07, and CS-CH-065.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hattie Long Wolf (Hattie Porcupine).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Laura Doanmoe wearing school uniform. Handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: Laura Doanmoe.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lucy Black Shortnose [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74268.jpg?itok=GHjF8Cfv "Lucy Black Shortnose [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose wearing a school-issued print dress.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lucy Black Shortnose [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_017c.jpg?itok=UG0JyW1l "Lucy Black Shortnose [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose wearing a school-issued print dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Marcus Poko and Otto Wells [?], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2331%20Full%20048.jpg?itok=Ohwb4TsG "Marcus Poko and Otto Wells [?], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Marcus Poko and Otto Wells [?], both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society