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 Frank Everett.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of George Hill.
Note: When he arrived at Carlisle, Hill was known as George Washington. He is also known as George W. Hill.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Annie Thomas.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Irene Horse Looking [version 2], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_055b.jpg?itok=cUmMBgRg "Irene Horse Looking [version 2], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Irene Horse Looking possibly wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ernest Hogee (left), Bishop Eatennah (center), and Oswald Smith (right). All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nellie Aspenall probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Tivis.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Job Hunterboy and Norman Casadore [version 1], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74406.jpg?itok=nnwG02is "Job Hunterboy and Norman Casadore [version 1], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Job Hunterboy (standing at left) and Norman Casadore (seated at right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Walter Analla (standing at left) and Siceni Nori (seated at right), both wearing school uniforms.
Note: The identification of the students pictured is preliminary.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 2], c. 1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0025.jpg?itok=vSAsI45e "Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 2], c. 1886")
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (also known as Timber Yellow Robe) wearing school uniform.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has two copies of this print: PA-CH1-057Ba and CS-CH-018.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 1], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74379.jpg?itok=oQxb8wdQ "Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 1], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Ernie Black and his sister Jennie Black.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Ernie Black and his Sister.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Eben Beads and Brian Early Bird wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Seichu Atsye.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 3], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_096c.jpg?itok=kyPCgrP2 "Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 3], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Ernie Black and his sister Jennie Black.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jiron, a Native American man (seated at left), Harvey Townsend (standing in center), and Henry Kendall (seated at left).
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 Frank Jannies wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Wilkie Sharp.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-063c and PA-CH1-078e.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Thirteen male student printers [version 1], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73294.jpg?itok=xCw-CC8P "Thirteen male student printers [version 1], c.1886")
Studio portrait of thirteen male students, all wearing school uniforms. The caption of this and other copies identifies them as working in the print shop.
Other copies identify the students. They are:
1. Bennie Thomas, 2. Lorenzo Martinez, 3. Willie Butcher, 4. C. P. Cornelius, 5. Dennison Wheelock, 6. Samuel Townsend, 7. Richard Davis, 8. Howard Logan, 9. Yamie Leeds, 10. Paul Boynton, 11. John D. Miles, 12. Benajah Miles, 13. Joe B. Harris.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Patrick Bitter and an unidentified male student, both wearing school uniforms. Bitter is the student on the right.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Tom Torlino.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![John Elm [version 2], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_085c.jpg?itok=Hs6QxN2o "John Elm [version 2], c.1886")
Studio portrait of John Elm.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lillie Wind.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: John Gunn Pueblo
This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections