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 Hugh (Running Horse) wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Spotted Tail and Iron Wing, Sioux chiefs.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-013a and CS-CH-043.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the exterior of the school workshops with male students, one with a bicycle, in front of them.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of three unidentified male students; two are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
![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
The Assistant Superintendent's Quarters with a man, woman, and two children (one in a baby carriage) posed on the porch. The man is probably A.J. Standing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_021b.jpg?itok=QkfSyrAS "Teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students. The students are: Ann Laura (back left), Hattie Long Wolf (back middle), Rebecca Big Star (back right), Alice Wynn (middle row left), Grace Cook (middle row right), Mabel Doanmoe (bottom left), Stella Berht (bottom center), and Ruth (Looking Woman) (bottom right). The girls all appear to be wearing school uniforms.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: CS-CH-076, PA-CH1-021b, and 13-14-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 1], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_121701a.jpg?itok=4cRnC9GQ "Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 1], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) wearing native dress.
There is a caption written by Mrs. Richard Henry Pratt: "She was given my name (Anna Laura) by her own request. Grand daughter of Spotted Tail, Chief, Sioux."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: 12-17-01, 12-17-01A, and PA-CH1-065b.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Five young male Sioux students [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_021c.jpg?itok=1BsVmdsF "Five young male Sioux students [version 2], c.1880")
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
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-021c, 10-B-07, and CS-CH-065.
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
![Red Shirt [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_019c.jpg?itok=G1GlyhXe "Red Shirt [version 2], c.1880")
Studio portrait of Red Shirt, a Sioux chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-019c and CS-CH-108.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![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
Studio portrait of Luther Standing Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Male students working in the print shop.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Iron Wing, a Sioux chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-011b and CS-CH-036.1-.3.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Students and staff working in the harness-making shop at the Carlisle Indian School. They are identified as, from left to right: Lorenzo Chapman (instructor), Geoffrey Chips, Cheape Ross, Curtis, Lawrence, Edward Little, William Spotted Tail, Julian, Morgan, Henry Thigh, and Andrew.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Left Hand and his son, U.S. Grant (Grant Left Hand) [version 2], c.1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_064a.jpg?itok=dv6UN2Tv "Left Hand and his son, U.S. Grant (Grant Left Hand) [version 2], c.1880")
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 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
![Five male Sioux students [version 1], 1880](https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73380.jpg?itok=SYKqPX0j "Five male Sioux students [version 1], 1880")
Studio portrait of Bernard (Hawk Charging Daylight) (standing at left), Horace (Horse) (standing at right), Reuben Quick Bear (Kills the Enemy) (seated at left), John Renville (seated at center), and Rufus (Strikes the Enemy) (seated at right). All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![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
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