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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Interior of the school chapel. The ivy decorations may indicate this photograph was taken around the holidays. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of the chapel with added bell tower over front door but before additions were put on the sides. Three male students, one in uniform, are posed in front of the building. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of the chapel with added bell tower over front door but before the additons were put on the sides. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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

View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of male studens in uniform practicing drilling on the grounds in front of the Large Boys' Quarters. 

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

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

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

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a female teacher in the front of the room. One male student is standing at the blackboard next to a drawing of a horse. 

Previous cataloging indicates the caption written on this image identifies this as Miss Booth's classroom. School records indicate Vicentine Booth taught at the school between 1881 and 1889.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of a Joactoras, a visiting Arapaho chief. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Studo portrait of an unidentified male student in school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a female teacher in the front of the room. One male student is standing at the blackboard next to a drawing of a horse. 

Previous cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image indicates the caption written on this image identifies this as Miss Booth's classroom. School records indicate Vicentine Booth taught at the school between 1881 and 1889.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of a visitor to the school, presumably a chief. He is identified on the reverse as Roan Horse from the Apache nation. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's version of this image identifies him as Ai-sia-tiw-me or Comanche John. 

Note: A researcher has indicated that Comanche John was actually Comanche, but that he had run away to Mescalero Apache in 1879.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Studio portrait of one male student wearing school uniform with four female students.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of teacher Alice M. Seabrook.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Image of a group of young men posed on a rocky outcropping in a heavily wooded vista. 

The young men look as if they may be Carlisle students. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

White instructor in center, male students working at benches in the harness making shop. 

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-089c and BS-CH-046. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The girls' quarters with female students on the porches, with the bandstand at right and the hospital building visible between them. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The girls' quarters with female students visible on the porches, with the bandstand at right and the hospital building visible between them. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-058B and 10A-C-03. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of two men, seated in the center, wearing hats and white scarves, probably visitors, with five male students (one wearing a uniform), and a young girl. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of nineteen students, some in native clothing, probably taken upon arrival on the school grounds. In the back row at the far right is a male student in school uniform. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Students in the shoe shop with white instructor standing in rear of the room. 

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-087e and BS-CH-048.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of five unidentified male students. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Four identified male students. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution