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 five male students, identified as (L to R): Percy Zadoka, Frank Everett, John Tatum, Harry Shirley, and Hortie Stevens.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
View of the school grounds with a few students, showing the back of the teachers' quarters, the band stand, and the girls' quarters.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of a large group of people, including band members and visitors, posed in a line in front of the band stand on the school grounds.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the campus grounds with the band stand and people, possibly visitors.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 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
View of students in uniforms seated at rows of desks in a school room with a white female teacher. Some students are standing in front by the chalk boards.
The caption identifies this as Miss Fisher's class room. School records indicate Elspeth (or Effie) Fisher taught at the school from 1881 to 1892.
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
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
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 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
View of the dining room decorated for Christmas with female student workers posed near the tables.
The caption identifies it as "Christmas Dinner, Indian School, Carlisle, Pa."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
