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 Stacy Matlock.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Brule Iron Eagle Feather [version 1], 1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74393.jpg?itok=8v6QhyIc "Brule Iron Eagle Feather [version 1], 1888")
Studio portrait of Brule Iron Eagle Feather wearing school uniform.
Note: A handwritten caption written along the side of the image appears to contain the date 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Fred Harris.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lambert Istone posed next to a bicycle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benajah Miles wearing school uniform.
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
![Charles Istee, Humphrey Escharzay, and Thomas Pelcoya [?], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74341.jpg?itok=Ab1JDDFu "Charles Istee, Humphrey Escharzay, and Thomas Pelcoya [?], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Charles Istee, Humphrey Escharzay, and Thomas Pelcoya [?]; two are wearing school uniforms.
Note: The identification of Thomas Pelcoya is preliminary. Previously cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the name "Thomas," and Thomas Pelcoya is the only male Apache student who attended at the same time as the other sitters in the image.
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
![William Morgan and Rose Howell [version 2], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_048c.jpg?itok=2bVk4hl7 "William Morgan and Rose Howell [version 2], c.1888")
Studio portrait of William Morgan and Rose Howell. Morgan is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John W. Pipe and Philip B. Mann.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Hulda Kinzhuna and Arnold Kinzhuna.
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
Studio portrait of Moses Culbertson and Constant Bread; one is wearing a school uniform.
Note: Cataloging information provided by the National Anthropological Archives gives a date of October 1889 for this image, but both of these students left in July of 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Susie Nachekea (standing at left), Charles Istee (standing at rear), and Gail Marko (seated at right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Talbot Goday wearing school uniform.
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/NAA_73715.jpg?itok=i2M_gSaE "Burdett Tsis-nah [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Burdett Tsis-nah, posed with a hat and umbrella.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Andrew Conover wearing school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: A. Conover.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Tivis (at left) and Frank Everett (at right). Everett is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Jason Betzinez, Effie Zaienah, and Maggie Iahanetha [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74371.jpg?itok=4oK84BAk "Jason Betzinez, Effie Zaienah, and Maggie Iahanetha [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez, Effie Zaienah, and Maggie Iahanetha. Betzinez is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Cochrane.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: William Cochrane.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Four young men in baseball uniforms [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74444.jpg?itok=uk2iLUHI "Four young men in baseball uniforms [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay (back left), Lyman Kennedy (back right), Morgan Toprock, (front left), and Ralph Naltuey (front right), all wearing baseball uniforms with "YA" on the front of the shirts.
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
Studio portrait of William Baird (standing) and Peter Cornelius (seated).
Note: There is no identification of the people in this image. The identification is based on comparison with other images of the two students.
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
![Eunice Suison [version 1], 1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0064.jpg?itok=O0IB5p-g "Eunice Suison [version 1], 1888")
Studio portrait of Eunice Suisson, infant daughter of student Annette Suison.
The note reads: CHOATE, CARLISLE, PA.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Eunice Mason Sois. Apache baby at Carlisle Indian School. 1888.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections