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 two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charlie Carr wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alex Manabove and Little Chief, one wearing a star-shaped pin.
Note: If the interpretation of the handwritten caption is correct, it is not clear who Little Chief is. There was a student named Little Chief, but he left the school in 1880. This photograph may document a later visit of a Cheyenne chief named Little Chief (documented in the student newspaper).
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
![Ada Fox Catcher [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_092a.jpg?itok=rpkYV86X "Ada Fox Catcher [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Ada Fox Catcher probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student wearing a white pinafore.
This could be student Fanny Bird.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lorenzo Martinez.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified young female students wearing white pinafores.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of six unidentified male students in school uniforms.
The caption identifies them as being from the Crow nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
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
![Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74193.jpg?itok=bx4nQyzH "Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Baird wearing a uniform.
Note: This image also contains partial caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Roland Fish (seated at left), Jonas Place, and an unidentified young man. Fish is in a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Ada Fox Catcher [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73404.jpg?itok=L1j5kCw8 "Ada Fox Catcher [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Ada Fox Catcher probaby wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of six unidentified male students, five wearing school uniforms.
Previous cataloging identifies them as Miss Biddle's class. School records show no teacher named Miss Biddle, so she is probably a Sunday school teacher from one of the local churches.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Fred Big Horse and Noble Prentis.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Candelaria Quintana [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_019b.jpg?itok=z-T1owJV "Candelaria Quintana [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Candelaria Quintana.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![James B. Garcia [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_078c.jpg?itok=lYcnvoCD "James B. Garcia [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of James B. Garcia.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Everett and Percy Zadoka.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lois Pretty Scalp [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73769.jpg?itok=w4_NHjBT "Lois Pretty Scalp [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Lois Pretty Scalp.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Eighteen young female Pueblo students [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73332.jpg?itok=lxNK-oYp "Eighteen young female Pueblo students [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of eighteen female Pueblo students, all wearing school uniforms. A few are holding dolls. In Choate's 1902 Souvenir 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 two male students, one in school uniform.
Note: Based on other images and the handwritten caption, that the student on the left is Theodore North. The student on the right is currently unidentified.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Good Chief, a Pawnee chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Eben Beads.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society