Images



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 an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Meta Atsye and Lora Situwitsuh. 

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 seven male students with one white boy. The caption for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image identifies the white boy as John Nisley. Cumberland County Historical Society cataloging identifies the students as being from the Crow Nation. Richard Wallace is standing in the center, and George Thomas is standing on the right.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.

Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The handwritten note reads: Capt Pratt. Supt of Indian School Carlisle Pa.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

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 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 Joseph Schweigman.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of a female student, probably Stiya Koykuri.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of seventeen female students, all wearing school uniforms.

The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image, written 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: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Carlisle Indian School student body assembled on the school grounds around 1885, with the superintendent's house in background.

Dickinson College has another copy of this image cataloged as CIS-P-0078.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the Teachers' Quareters with several figures, including a male student and probably a female teacher, posed in front and on the porch. The figure on the far right may be Richard Henry Pratt. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of school clerk Samuel H. Gould,. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

The guard house with a figure standing in the central doorway. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the tailor shop showing students working with an instructor.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-086a and BS-CH-047. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of teacher Alice M. Seabrook.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Existing building (the South Barracks) used as the first school building. Students are posed on the balconies and lined up to enter the building. A sign attached at the near end of the building reads "Schoolrooms." 

This building was demolished in July 1888 and replaced with a new building for the same purpose.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-002, 10A-C-02, and 12-08-03. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the dining hall at the school, all tables filled by students. Male and female students are seated on opposite sides of the tables. There are a few adult white people standing at right. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform. 

A handwritten caption identifies this student as "Nephew of Red Cloud, Sioux." We have unable to verify which student this might have been. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

Students lined up along the road in front of the dining hall, as if in a parade. There are three wagons with horses, students in uniform, including some with instruments. There are two people leading the group, one in full feather headdress. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of teacher Emma A. Cutter. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center