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 teacher Vincentine T. Booth. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

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

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

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

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

A view of students on the school grounds, some are in uniform, some are not. The male students are in the foreground, female students are in the distance. Some of the male students are standing, some are lying on the ground. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image has the caption Campus After School

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 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

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 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

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 a students wearing uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a white female teacher and some students near the board at the front of the room. 

The caption identifies this as Miss Cutter's classroom. School records show Emma Cutter taught at the school from 1881 to 1896. 

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 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

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 teacher Emma A. Cutter. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

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 school clerk Samuel H. Gould,. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

A view of students on the school grounds, some are in uniform, some are not. The male students are in the foreground, female students are in the distance. Some of the male students are standing, some are lying on the ground. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-082a, BS-CH-053, and 12-07-02G. One copy (PA-CH1-082a) has the caption Campus After School

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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