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 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
Studio portrait of Benjamin Lawry and Peter Snow. Both are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lucy Tsisnah [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73749.jpg?itok=Zlhn0bMa "Lucy Tsisnah [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Lucy Tsisnah.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Thomas Blackbear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 Martha Napawat probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Burdett Tsis-nah [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73715.jpg?itok=i2M_gSaE "Burdett Tsis-nah [version 1], c.1888")
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 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 Nellie Carey.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Willis Black Bear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Casper Cailis wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Josiah Powlas.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Eva Johnson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Cora Poor Bear wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Elizabeth Black Moon possibly wearing school uniform. Handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Eliz. Blackmoon.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Jemima Two Elks.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Laura Standing Elk [version 2], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_088a.jpg?itok=IEwUC3DY "Laura Standing Elk [version 2], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Laura Standing Elk.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Student portrait of Morgan Kah-ka-neth-la.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 Hulda Kinzhuna and Arnold Kinzhuna.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Four young men in baseball uniforms [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74444.jpg?itok=uk2iLUHI "Four young men in baseball uniforms [version 1], c.1888")
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 Levi St. Cyr wearing school uniform.
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 Thomas Kose.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society