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 Mack Kutepi wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Irene Horse Looking and Henry Horse Looking.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![George W. Hill [version 2], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_001b.jpg?itok=Br7XUrzt "George W. Hill [version 2], c.1884")
Studio portrait of George W. Hill.
Note: When he first entered the school, Hill was known as George Washington.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Luther Kuhns wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Dorian in school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Victoria Standing Bear (left) and Martha Bordeaux (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Dolly Gould probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Kendall.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Louis Big Horse, Elmer, Joel Chetopah, Embry Gibson, and Fred Lookout [version 1], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73529.jpg?itok=ADdxg2VV "Louis Big Horse, Elmer, Joel Chetopah, Embry Gibson, and Fred Lookout [version 1], c.1884")
Studio portrait of Louis Big Horse (back row at left), Elmer (back row in center), Joel Chetopah (back row at right), Embry Gibson (front row at left), and Fred Lookout (front row at right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Noah Lovejoy wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Embry Gibson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Hope Blue Teeth.
Note: In its album, this photograph is captioned "Hope Lock." Hope Blue Teeth married fellow student Frank Lock, so that is her married name.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Mabel Kelcusay [version 2], 1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_005a.jpg?itok=0D27ekoi "Mabel Kelcusay [version 2], 1884")
Studio portrait of Mabel Kelcusay, possibly wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hattie Long Wolf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Twenty-four female students as they arrived [version 2], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2348_edited_0.jpg?itok=IohXMGpg "Twenty-four female students as they arrived [version 2], c.1884")
Portrait of twenty-four female students, many wrapped in plaid shawls or blankets, posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds.
There may be another student at the far right of the bottom right; if there is, then there are twenty-five students in the picture.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Damon, Stailey Norcross, Wood Nashozey, and George S. Watchman. Damon was the youngest, and so is presumably the student at back left wearing a school uniform. Norcross is standing at right, Watchman is probably seated at left and Nashozey is probably seated at right.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Jennie Black, c.1884 [version 1]](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_74136.jpg?itok=K8uR3uKc "Jennie Black, c.1884 [version 1]")
Studio portrait of Jennie Black probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Jennie Black, c.1884 [version 2]](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_001c.jpg?itok=aqjEWqtN "Jennie Black, c.1884 [version 2]")
Studio portrait of Jennie Black probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lena Black Bear [version 1], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73401.jpg?itok=LUMAk_ef "Lena Black Bear [version 1], c.1884")
Studio portrait of Lena Black Bear probably wearing school uniform. Handwritten along the side of the image: Lena Black Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lena Black Bear [version 2], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_013b.jpg?itok=Ju5QEEQv "Lena Black Bear [version 2], c.1884")
Studio portrait of Lena Black Bear probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![George Summers [version 1], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73793.jpg?itok=t05CWj0h "George Summers [version 1], c.1884")
Studio portrait of George Summers.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Clarence Powder Face and an unidentified young man.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the name "Thomas" for the unidentified young man.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles Fisher (at left) and George Thomas (at right), both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Samuel Townsend.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution