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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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

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

Studio portrait of two male students in uniforms with two older men and two women, presumably their parents or relatives. 

Previous cataloging from the National Anthropological Archives had interpreted the handwritten caption as reading "Thomas Dummick and Joseph St. Clair" and had identified all the sitters as "non-native." However, these do appear to be students in their school uniforms and there is no apparent reason not to think that they are Indian students and these are their families. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student. The handwritten caption contains a name that could be Schenandore or Skenandore. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student. The name in the handwritten caption looks like Parnell but there is no student with a name similar to that from the time this image was taken. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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 nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (back row, left to right): Harriet Kyocea, Lydia Harrington, Louie Cornelius, Katie White Bird, and Julia Logan; (front row, left to right): Alice Long Pole, Jennie Black, Nellie Aspenall, and Jennie Conners.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Hope Blue Teeth, Cyrus Windy, Jennie Dubray, and Lizzie Dubray. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

Studio portrait of two unidentified male students and three unidentified female students. The seated male student has been identified as Lot Eyelash. 

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

Studio portrait of five male students. 

There is a copy of this image at the Army Heritage Education Center in which the sitters are identified as (L to R): Percy Zadoka, Frank Everett, John Tatum, Harry Shirley, and Hortie Stevens.

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

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

Group portrait of eighteen male students, dressed similarly and wearing baseball caps, one posed with a bat, taken on the school grounds. 

This is probably one of the many teams that played each other within the school. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Eustace Pelone. 

Note: Previous cataloging indicates part of the handwritten caption on the image says "March 1885." 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Phillip White (Phillips Bob Tail). 

Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date April 1885.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Reuben Wolf and Levi Levering.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez, Effie Zaienah, and Maggie Iahanetha. Betzinez is wearing a school uniform. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Hattie Long Wolf (Hattie Porcupine) possibly wearing school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Charles D. Wheelock (seated at left) and Dennison Wheelock (standing at right). Dennison is wearing a school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Levi Levering.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of William Tivis.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Adam Metoxen (standing) and John Elm (seated), both wearing school uniforms.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Charles D. Wheelock (sitting at left) and Dennison Wheelock (standing at right). Dennison is wearing a school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Frank Hudson (standing) and Clarence White Thunder (seated). Hudson is wearing a school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution