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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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

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 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 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

Studio portrait of Phillip White (Phillips Bob Tail). 

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

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

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

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 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 Burdett Tsis-nah, posed with a hat and umbrella.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Frank Lock.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Levi St. Cyr wearing school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Benjamin Lawry (at left), Howard Logan (standing in center), and Levi St. Cyr (seated at right). Logan is wearing a school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Louis Levering.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Levi Levering.

Note: According to previous cataloging the handwritten caption includes the date January 1888.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Student portrait of Morgan Kah-ka-neth-la.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay (back left), Lyman Kennedy (back right), Morgan Toprock, (front left), and Ralph Naltuey (front right), all wearing baseball uniforms with "YA" on the front of the shirts. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of William Tivis (at left) and Frank Everett (at right). Everett is wearing a school uniform. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Charles Redmore and an unidentified young man. One is in a uniform and holding a brass horn instrument.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of William Short Nose, Rosa Lewis, and Cora Poor Bear. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez, Effie Zaienah, and Maggie Iahanetha. Betzinez is wearing a school uniform. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Laura Standing Elk. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution