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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Studio portrait of three male students and two female students posed with a white woman. The caption identifies them as "Miss Spencer and class." School records list Miss Spencer as an "Industrial Teacher" who was employed in 1880. This image is #36 on the list of Choate photos for sale published in 1881.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a straw hat and a bandana. Previous cataloging interprets a date of 1880 in the caption.
Note: This appears to be a photograph of a photograph. The original photograph appears to be of a Carlisle student taken in Choate's studio.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Big Bow [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73482.jpg?itok=73q6NZZ7 "Big Bow [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Big Bow, a Kiowa chief.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lucy Black Shortnose [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74268.jpg?itok=GHjF8Cfv "Lucy Black Shortnose [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose wearing a school-issued print dress.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73319.jpg?itok=-ksfgx6t "Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Bob Tail and his son, Joseph Bobtail, who is wearing school uniform. There is an illegible handwritten caption along the side of the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles Kawboodle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Zonkeuh [?], Owen Yellow Hair, Charles Kawboodle, Dan Tucker, c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2304%20%28Choate%20%2305%29%20Full%20026.jpg?itok=-Ks2aVSH "Zonkeuh [?], Owen Yellow Hair, Charles Kawboodle, Dan Tucker, c.1880")
Portrait of Zonkeuh [probably standing at left], Owen Yellow Hair, Charles Kawboodle, and Dan Tucker posed in front of a building on the school grounds. All are holding bugles.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Slate showing student work with names R. B. Hayes and John Williams [version 2], 1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_023b.jpg?itok=VKHcXwAU "Slate showing student work with names R. B. Hayes and John Williams [version 2], 1880")
Image of a slate such as those used by students. This slate contains examples of written vocabulary words, written text, a copy of a brief note from student R. B. Hayes to his father dated June 25, 1880, a drawing of a man on a horse apparently signed John Williams, and an example of a math problem. Along the side is written "Choate Photographer."
It is not clear if this slate shows work by one student or is a composite, since R. B Hayes (Cheyenne nation) and John Williams (Arapaho nation) are both named on it.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Luther Standing Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Son of the Star, an Arickaree Chief, also known as Santa Fe Star.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-018a, CS-CH-031.1-.2, and 12-11-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Students Samuel High Bear and Guy (Bear Don't Scare) working at the bakery. This is a posed photo of them loading loaves of bread on a wheelbarrow outside the bakery.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-084c and CS-CH-099.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Stella Berht.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Spotted Tail after his return from Washington [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73317.jpg?itok=lPJCsLun "Spotted Tail after his return from Washington [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Spotted Tail, a Sioux chief, described as being "after his return from Washington."
Note: This image was sold by photographer J.N. Choate (#23 on the list of photos being sold). It is here that it is described as being "after his return from Washington."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lucy Black Shortnose [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_017c.jpg?itok=UG0JyW1l "Lucy Black Shortnose [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose wearing a school-issued print dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74254.jpg?itok=2us6viAI "Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise, both wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two men in native clothing, probably visiting chiefs, and a third wearing a suit.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail [version 3], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/0321.f.0027.jpg?itok=yjAE6I9c "Bob Tail and his son Joseph Bobtail [version 3], c.1880")
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
Portrait of five Sioux chiefs posed with two white interpreters on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds. The chiefs are Black Crow, Two Strike, White Thunder, Spotted Tail, and Iron Wing. The interpreters are Louis Robideau and Charles Tackett.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-076c and CS-CH-086.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Fanny and Dora both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Mary Ealy (standing at left), Jennie Hammaker (standing at right), Frank Cushing (sitting at left), and Taylor Ealy (sitting at right), all wearing native clothing.
The printed caption on the reverse side reads:
No 20.
Teai-e-se-u-lu-ti-wa - Frank Cushing.
Tra-wa-ea-tsa-lun-kia - Saylor Ealy.
Tsai au-tit-sa - Mary Ealy.
Jan-i-uh-tit sa - Jennie Hammaker.
- Pueblos.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-044a and CS-CH-068.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Chief Big Horse and Hubbell Big Horse [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_028b.jpg?itok=TpoBKF66 "Chief Big Horse and Hubbell Big Horse [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Chief Big Horse and his son, Hubbell Big Horse. Chief Big Horse wears traditional clothes and Hubbell is in a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of six visiting Sioux leaders posed in front of the bandstand on the school grounds. The title given to the image was "Sioux chiefs at the Carlisle Indian School," and they are identified as Joseph Cook, Medicine Bull, Philip Deloria, David Tatiyopa, Eli Abraham, and Pretty Youngest Child.
This is #13 on photographer J.N. Choate's list of photographs available for sale, published in 1881.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Walter Matches [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_034a.jpg?itok=-5Hn9BS1 "Walter Matches [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Walter Matches.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-034a and CS-CH-015.1-.2.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of White Man, an Apache chief, and Stumbling Bear, a Kiowa chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Darlington [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74269.jpg?itok=T19Nh0wR "Darlington [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Darlington wearing school uniform.
Handwritten caption along bottom edge of image probably reads: Darlington.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution