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 Good Chief, a Pawnee chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire, all wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of a group of female students posed on the steps of a school building. There are nine people in the group. Eight of them are definitely students. The ninth, seated in the chair at left right, may be a student or a teacher.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student in school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Work Together and Brian Early Bird.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of seventeen female students, all wearing school uniforms. The caption on the album page identifies them as being from the Pueblo nation.
In another copy of this image, made by Dickinson College from an original owned by Bob Rowe, the description (see Related Images) there is a typed caption that reads "The same Pueblo girls as seen in the photograph above, six months after arrival at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School." The "photograph above" was taken when they entered in August 1884.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Previous cataloging indicates that part of the handwritten caption on this plate may be Alex.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nancy McIntosh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
The handwritten caption on this glass plate clearly says Chief Big Bow 10/88. However this is not Chief Big Bow, who is captured in other photos. The relationship of the caption to this student is not known.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth (left) and Casper Edson (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Sharp Nose, an Arapaho chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Mae Paisano and her brother, Willie H. Paisano, both wearing school uniforms.
Note: Although the school documents consistently use the incorrect spelling "May," family members have indicated that her name was properly spelled "Mae."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of a group of female students posed on the steps of a school building. There are nine people in the group. Eight of them are definitely students. The ninth, seated in the chair at left right, may be a student or a teacher.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry A. Russell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nellie Robertson, Etta Robertson, and Adelia Lowe, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock (standing) and William Morgan, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Everett in school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
An unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of six unidentified male students wearing school uniforms.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image identifies them as being from the Crow nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lois Pretty Scalp.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution