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
Studio portrait of teacher Vincentine T. Booth.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
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
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 a Joactoras, a visiting Arapaho chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
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
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 Four identified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 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 an unidentified male student in school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
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 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 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
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
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
Students gathered in the dining hall for Christmas dinner. (Note the American flags stuck into the turkeys at the end of the tables.)
The caption on the back reads "Indian Students of Carlisle School at dinner, Christmas 1885."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
