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 Joarclores, an Arapaho chief.
Note: The caption for this image identifies the sitter only as an Arapaho chief. A name is provided in the National Anthropological Archives glass plate negative (Joalloras) and in another copy of this image from the Cumberland County Historical Society (13A-14-04) where it is either Joarclores or Joactoras. None of these names may be correct.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joarclores, an Arapho chief.
Note: The spelling of this person's name is not clear. It could be Joalloas, Joarclores, or Joactoras.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Owen Fire and Festus Pelone, both wearing school uniforms and holding straw boater hats.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
An unposed photograph of the school grounds showing the school band and other students.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-040b, BS-CH-026, and 10B-05-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Etadleuh Doanmoe, Laura Doanmoe, and Martha Napawat.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Tom Torlino (seated) and George S. Watchman (standing).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank West.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lois Pretty Scalp.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of five visiting chiefs with five male students and one female student.
Note: The glass plate is broken so that only four chiefs are visible. Previous cataloging indicates that these sitters are from the Arapaho nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Students from the Indian Nurses Corps and medical staff posed on the front of a building. They are identified as being, from left to right: Zippa Metoxen, Rose Howell, Dr. Obadiah G. Given, Alice Seabrook, Barbara Showarumy, Clara Anthony, Katie Metoxen, Lillie Wind, and Boise Bassford. Given, Seabrook, and Anthony were school employees.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of a visiting chief with three male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank West.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of Kate Irvine, a staff member, and a group of nineteen male students posed in front of a school building. Many of the students are holding bows and arrows. The caption identifies them as her "Sabbath School Class."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-027b and BS-CH-031.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Laban Locojim wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Josie Vetter wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sowcea Kinery [?] and Samuel Keryte, both wearing school uniforms. Keryte is definitely the student standing at right.
Note: The identification of Kinery is a guess based on interpreting the handwritten caption, and the fact that he arrived on the same day as Keryte. Kinery was 14 at arrival and Keryte was 16.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Copy of a photograph of a studio portrait of five Native American chiefs.
Previous cataloging indicates these people are from the Arapaho nation.
This may be a copy of a photograph taken by Choate of chiefs who visisted Carlisle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of seventeen female Pueblo students, all wearing school uniforms. A few are holding dolls. In Choate's 1902 Souveneir this is identfied as a portrait of Pueblo girls who arrived in 1884.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Meta Atsye and Lora Situwitsuh, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of James Miller.
Note: This is probably James Y. Miller.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of three unidentified male students in school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students in school uniforms with a unidentified white woman, presumably a teacher.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Tom Torlino, Navajoe, Three years later.
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has four copies of this image: PA-CH2-004b, 12-26-04, BS-CH-012, and US-50b.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Nancy McIntosh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society