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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A parade down Market Street in Philadelphia, with Indian chiefs on horseback in the middle and a group of Carlisle students in the distance, with crowds and buildings on both sides of the street. The photograph was probably taken on September 15, 1887 when the band and students marched in a parade in Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the adoption of the Constitution. Press reaction to the school's representation in the parade is quoted in The Indian Helper Vol. 3, No. 7, September 23, 1887.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
School band and formation of students marching in a parade down Market Street in Philadelphia, showing crowds and buildings on both sides of the street. The photograph was probably taken on September 15, 1887 when the band and students marched in a parade in Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the adoption of the Constitution. Press reaction to the school's representation in the parade is quoted in The Indian Helper Vol. 3, No. 7, September 23, 1887.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has another very similar image (10-B-28).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION – THE CARLISLE INDIANS PASSING UNDER THE MAIN ARCH – INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION. DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.
This engraving is from a Supplement to Harper’s Weekly vol. 31, no. 1605 (September 24, 1887): pgs. 698.
Format: Artwork
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION – THE CARLISLE INDIANS PASSING UNDER THE MAIN ARCH – INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION. DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.
This hand-colored engraving is from a Supplement to Harper’s Weekly vol. 31, no. 1605 (September 24, 1887): pgs. 698.
Format: Artwork
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION – THE CARLISLE INDIANS PASSING UNDER THE MAIN ARCH – INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION. DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.
This hand-colored engraving is from a Supplement to Harper’s Weekly vol. 31, no. 1605 (September 24, 1887): pgs. 698.
Format: Artwork
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION – THE CARLISLE INDIANS PASSING UNDER THE MAIN ARCH – INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION. DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.
This hand-colored engraving is from a Supplement to Harper’s Weekly vol. 31, no. 1605 (September 24, 1887): pgs. 698.
Format: Artwork
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Felix Iron Eagle Feather wearing school uniform.
Note: The handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads in part "10 / 1887" .
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of six unidentified male students and five unidentified female students.
Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Pawnee nation and provides a date of October 1887 for the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Katie Metoxen [?].
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date November 1887.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Phillip White (Phillips Bob Tail).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Harvey Warner (standing at left) and William Brown (seated at right).
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date November 1887.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt and the school's teachers posed on the school grounds.
Due to the presence of Dr. Obadiah Given, who worked at the school from 1884 to 1889, this image must have been taken during that period. Given is the man with the long beard sitting in front of Pratt.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt and the school's teachers posed on the school grounds.
Due to the presence of Dr. Obadiah J. Given, who worked at the school between 1884 and 1889, this image must have been taken during that period. Given is the man with the long beard sitting in front of Pratt.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ulysses Paisano and John Shiosee [?], both wearing school uniforms.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date December 1887.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Brown, Phillips Bob Tail (also known as Phillip White), and Jacob White Eyes. Brown and Bob Tail are both wearing school uniforms.
Note: Jacob White Eyes was not a student at Carlisle. According to the January 6, 1888 issue of The Indian Helper, White Eyes was visiting Carlisle from the Educational Home, Philadelphia "during the holidays."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of James Paints Yellow and (probably) Francis Lee.
Previous cataloging notes a date of December 1887 included in the handwritten caption on the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Thomas Kose.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings.
The Cumber County Historical Society's print of this image identifies the group as the Republic Debating Society.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Janette Woods and Dorothy Dekhlikiseh, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mike Buffalo Thigh (left) and Paul Good Bear (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Arnold Kinzhuna (standing at right) and Hulda Kinzhuna (seated at left) with an unidentified boy and girl.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lucy Tsisnah, Burdett Tsisnah, and Virginia Nahaklo (seated). Lucy and Burdett were married to one another.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Albert Sitting Eagle (at left) and Thomas Blackbear (at right). Sitting Eagle is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Hulda Kinzhuna and Arnold Kinzhuna.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lucy Tsisnah.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution