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 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
Studio portrait of Frank Cushing (standing at left), Taylor Ealy (standing at right), Mary Ealy (seated in swing at left), and Jennie Hammaker (seated at right), all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Cushing (standing at left), Taylor Ealy (standing at right), Mary Ealy (seated in swing at left), and Jennie Hammaker (seated at right), all dressed in school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
Studio portrait of Spotted Tail, a Sioux chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-018c and CS-CH-037a.1-.2.
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 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
Studio portrait of Laura Doanmoe wearing school uniform. Handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: Laura Doanmoe.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William B. Peery wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified visiting chief. A later handwritten caption reads "N.M. Apache."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students and instructor posed working in front of the blacksmith's shop. One student is shoeing a horse.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
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
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 Charles Kawboodle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Carte de visite image of Winnie (White Woman), among the first party of students from Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations, believed to be taken about 2 months after arrival.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
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 two male students in school uniforms identified in the caption as "Oscar and Davis, Cheyennes." They are Richard Davis (standing) and his older brother Oscar Bull Bear.
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
Male students working in the print shop.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
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
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
