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 what appear to be two visiting chiefs with one male student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Red Shirt, a Sioux chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-019c and CS-CH-108.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Red Shirt, a Sioux chief.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Fanny and Dora both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two visiting chiefs.
Cataloging from the Cumberland County Historical Society, presumably based on information scratched on the negatives, indicates they are "Nachisi and New Mexico, Apache."
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose wearing a school-issued print dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ernest (Knocks Off) wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) wearing native dress.
There is a caption written by Mrs. Richard Henry Pratt: "She was given my name (Anna Laura) by her own request. Grand daughter of Spotted Tail, Chief, Sioux."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: 12-17-01, 12-17-01A, and PA-CH1-065b.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
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
Studio portrait of Bob Tail and his son, Joseph Bobtail, who is wearing school uniform. There is an illegible handwritten caption along the side of the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of three male students and two female students posed with a white woman. The caption identifies them as "Miss Spencer and class." School records list Miss Spencer as an "Industrial Teacher" who was employed in 1880. This image is #36 on the list of Choate photos for sale published in 1881.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Spotted Tail, a Sioux chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-018c and CS-CH-037a.1-.2.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Walter Matches.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of six visiting Sioux leaders posed in front of the bandstand on the school grounds. The title given to the image was "Sioux chiefs at the Carlisle Indian School," and they are identified as Joseph Cook, Medicine Bull, Philip Deloria, David Tatiyopa, Eli Abraham, and Pretty Youngest Child.
This is #13 on photographer J.N. Choate's list of photographs available for sale, published in 1881.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of chiefs Brother-to-All, Like the Bear, Poor Wolf (also known as Lean Wolf), Son of the Star, and American Horse posed with interpreters John Bridgeman and John Smith, standing in front of the bandstand on the school grounds.
Note: The other version of this image (Related Images), is the uncropped version which also has Richard Henry Pratt in the background.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has also a copy of this image: CS-CH-089.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Studio portrait of Hattie Long Wolf (Hattie Porcupine).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Students and staff working in the harness-making shop at the Carlisle Indian School. They are identified as, from left to right: Lorenzo Chapman (instructor), Geoffrey Chips, Cheape Ross, Curtis, Lawrence, Edward Little, William Spotted Tail, Julian, Morgan, Henry Thigh, and Andrew.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: CS-CH-093.1-3.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Spotted Tail and Iron Wing, Sioux chiefs.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-013a and CS-CH-043.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Spotted Tail, a Sioux chief, described as being "after his return from Washington."
Note: This image was sold by photographer J.N. Choate (#23 on the list of photos being sold). It is here that it is described as being "after his return from Washington."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Bernard (Hawk Charging Daylight) (standing at left), Horace (Horse) (standing at right), Reuben Quick Bear (Kills the Enemy) (seated at left), John Renville (seated at center), and Rufus (Strikes the Enemy) (seated at right). All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Valentine McKenzie.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Kawboodle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Alice Wynn (back left), Kisetta Roosevelt (back middle), Mabel Doanmoe (back right), Rebecca Big Star (front left), and Harriet Mary Elder (front right). All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
