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 Casper Cailis wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Edward Yankton.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Phillip White (Phillips Bob Tail).
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
Studio portrait of Josiah Powlas.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Cora Poor Bear wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jemima Two Elks.
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
![Burdett Tsis-nah [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch016.jpg?itok=2elgN3JH "Burdett Tsis-nah [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Burdett Tsis-nah, posed with a hat and umbrella.
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 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 Rose Howell.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![William Morgan and Rose Howell [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74387.jpg?itok=U1Z7AWZt "William Morgan and Rose Howell [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of William Morgan and Rose Howell. Morgan is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Anna Goyitney probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hulda Kinzhuna and Arnold Kinzhuna.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Talbot Goday wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Black Bull and Julia Walking Crane.
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
![Mike Buffalo Thigh and Paul Good Bear [version 2], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_087a.jpg?itok=1Ygpyd85 "Mike Buffalo Thigh and Paul Good Bear [version 2], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Mike Buffalo Thigh (left) and Paul Good Bear (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Richard Wallace wearing an overcoat and holding a hat.
Note: Handwritten caption identifies this student as Dick Wallace.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Mike Buffalo Thigh and Paul Good Bear [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73767.jpg?itok=m0H1Jn40 "Mike Buffalo Thigh and Paul Good Bear [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Mike Buffalo Thigh (left) and Paul Good Bear (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Richard Davis and Paul Good Bear. Davis is probably standing at left, in non-native clothing, and Good Bear is probably standing at right in school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Morgan Toprock and Donald Water.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 Louis Levering.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution