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 William Morgan (standing at left) and Kish Hawkins (seated at right), both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Albert Anderson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Clay Ainsworth [version 1], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74409.jpg?itok=B-0vR-5l "Clay Ainsworth [version 1], c.1887")
Studio portrait of Clay Ainsworth.
An obscured handwritten note along the side of the image probably reads: Clay Ainsworth.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nellie Robertson wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Jourdan.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of a student believed to be Oconame Howerame.
An apparently later handwritten note on a white label appears to read "Henry Acoyame." A name is written in faint, indecipherable handwriting along the side of the image.
Note: There is no record of a student named Henry Acoyame. However, student Oconame Howerame has outing dates which match those of students identified in outing records as A-Co-Ya-Me and Oco-ya-me. Therefore, it seems likely that the handwritten note on this image is a misinterpreation of some variation of Oconame Howerame's name.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Knox Nostlin and Hugh Chee [version 1], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74188.jpg?itok=ex0op913 "Knox Nostlin and Hugh Chee [version 1], c.1887")
Studio portrait of Knox Nostlin (left) and Hugh Chee (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Ramona Chihuahua.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Marcellus Bezhahun and Clay Domieah [version 2], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_099b.jpg?itok=oI9kVdMi "Marcellus Bezhahun and Clay Domieah [version 2], c.1887")
Studio portrait of Marcellus Bezhahun and Clay Domieah both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Marcellus Bezhahun and Clay Domieah [version 1], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74055.jpg?itok=oJxqlVkt "Marcellus Bezhahun and Clay Domieah [version 1], c.1887")
Studio portrait of Marcellus Bezhahun and Clay Domieah both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students in athletic clothing, possibly baseball uniforms. On the floor in front of them are gloves and a ball.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Phillips wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nicholas Ruleau (back row on the left), Preston Three Bears (back row on the right), Felix Iron Eagle Feather, and an unidentified young man.
Note: Previous cataloging identifies the name of the unidentified student as Alex and gives a date of January 1887.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Dexter Loco, Oliver Bitchaiet, and Duncan Balatchu.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ambrose Chachu wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benjamin Thomas.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of seventeen male students, three female students, and one white woman. The caption identifies the white woman as Miss Seabrook. Alice Seabrook was a teacher at the school from 1885 to 1889 and later worked at the school as a nurse from 1890 to 1892.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Annette Suison [version 1], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73818.jpg?itok=5fLe2j38 "Annette Suison [version 1], c.1887")
Studio portrait of Annette Suison wearing a floral print dress.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Alexander Manabove wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bruce Fisher (standing at right), and an unidentified young man (seated). It is likely this is Bautiste Rowtsi, also from the Queres nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of George S. Watchman.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Phoebe Howell.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Clara Faber.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students in uniforms. One is holding a brass instrument, the other is holding a drum.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Hudson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society