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 Benjamin Thomas (standing at left), Mary Perry (seated in center), and John Menaul Chaves (seated at right). The two boys are both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Ruth (Looking Woman), Hattie Long Wolf, Anna Laura, Grace Cook, and Stella Berht.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has six copies of this image: CS-CH-066, PA-CH1-023a, and 10-B-12.1-.4.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville, all wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose wearing a school-issued print dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bob Tail with his son Joseph Bobtail, who is dressed in a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Indian School students Amos Lone Hill, Joseph Gun, Philip (Kills), Ellwood Dorian, Carlos, Walter Matches, Oscar Bull Bear, and Ralph Iron Eagle Feather and staff members Samuel Wetzel and E.B. Strait working on the roof of one of the school buildings.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: CS-CH-096 and 14-07-02.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A posed group of male students in the Carlisle Indian School tin shop with their instructor and Richard Henry Pratt. They are, from left to right: Charles Oheltoint, Richard Henry Pratt, Henry Roman Nose, Paul Black Bear, J.H. Curtain (instructor), Ernest, and Koba.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: CS-CH-097.1-.2.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Posed portrait of eight female students, presumably kitchen staff, and one staff member in the dining room with set tables.
Note: Three of these students are identified as Eva Pickard, Anna Laura, and Anna Raven.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Left Hand, an Arapaho chief, with his son, U.S. Grant also known as Grant Left Hand.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-064a and CS-CH-044.1-.3.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose, Anna Laura, Justine La Framboise, and Nancy Renville, all wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise, both wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of a group of visiting chiefs with some white men and one male student.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image says that they are chiefs from the Sac and Fox nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail who is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Studio portrait of Nellie Carey, posed leaning on a bale of hay and holding a lacy white object, probably a hat.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Studio portrait of two visiting chiefs holding folding fans.
They are identified in Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections version of this image as White Man, Apache Chief (at left) and Stumbling Bear, Kiowa Chief (at right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Studio portrait of (back row, left to right): David (Kills Without Wounding), Nathan (Ear), Pollock Spotted Tail; and (front row, left to right): Marshall (Marshall Bad Milk), and Hugh (Running Horse). All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Studio portrait of Chief Big Horse and his son, Hubbell Big Horse. Chief Big Horse wears traditional clothing and Hubbell is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Male students working in the schools shoemaking shop.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Studio portrait of Tso-de-ar-ko, a Wichita chief, and Wild Horse, a Comanche chief, with Mr. Clark, an interpreter.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
View of students and instructor posed working in front of the blacksmith's shop. One student is shoeing a horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Studio portrait of Joseph Wisecoby and Moses Nonway, both wearing school uniforms and holding hats.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students in school uniforms, identified in the caption as "Oscar and Davis, Cheyennes."
They are probably Richard Davis and Oscar Bull Bear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Studio portrait of Charles Kawboodle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Studio portrait of eleven unidentified male students in school uniforms.
The caption here identifies them as being Northern Arapaho.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Male and female students posed in rows on the school grounds in front of the superintendent's house.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society