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 fifteen unidentified male students.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image. One identifies them as Apache students and the other as specifically San Carlos Apaches. Records document fewer than fifteen male San Carlos Apache students ever attending the school, and they were not all there at the same time.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Felix Iron Eagle Feather wearing school uniform.
Note: The handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads in part "2/ 1888".
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Belle Sestuwitsuh.
Previous cataloging indicates that the handwritten caption includes the date February 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Persis Big Hair wearing a school uniform. Handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Persis Big Hair, February 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of infants Katie Kinzhuna and Eunice Suison.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date February 1888.
This image is believed to have been taken in February, 1888. Kate was the daughter of students Hulda and Arnold Kinzhuna. Eunice was the daughter of students Annette and Neal Suison. The photograph was sold under the title "The Apache Babies" or "Our Apache Babies."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of infants Katie Kinzhuna and Eunice Suison.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date February 1888.
This image is believed to have been taken in February, 1888. Kate was the daughter of students Hulda and Arnold Kinzhuna. Eunice was the daughter of student Annette and Neal Suison. The photograph was sold under the title "The Apache Babies" or "Our Apache Babies."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of infants Katie Kinzhuna and Eunice Suison.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date December or February 1888.
This image is believed to have been taken in February, 1888. Kate was the daughter of students Hulda and Arnold Kinzhuna. Eunice was the daughter of students Annette and Neal Suison. The photograph was sold under the title "The Apache Babies" or "Our Apache Babies."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Meta Atsye in school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Meta Atsye, Feburary 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Eunice Suison, infant daughter of Indian School student Annette Suison. Eunice was one of the children known as the "Apache babies"
The Cumberland County Historical Society dates this image to February 1888.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of infants Katie Kinzhuna and Eunice Suison.
The handwritten note reads: Kate Irvine Kinzhune and Eunice Suison
This image is believed to have been taken in February, 1888. Kate was the daughter of students Hulda and Arnold Kinzhuna. Eunice was the daughter of students Annette and Neal Suison. The photograph was sold under the title "The Apache Babies" or "Our Apache Babies."
This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Abe Sommers and Charles Dakota, one wearing a school uniform.
Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date March 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Isadore Labedie.
Note: Caption on this image indicates it was taken in March 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Gail Marko wearing school uniform.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date March 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Edwin Schanandore.
Previous cataloging indicates the written caption includes the date March 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student. Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the name Bautiste 10/88.
This may possibly be Bautiste Rowtsi (Queres nation).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Christopher Tyndall and Harry Shirley.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date March 7, 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Morgan wearing school uniform.
Note: A handwritten caption on this image dates it to April 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Group portrait of what are presumably all or most of the school's students at the time, taken on the grounds of the central campus looking towards the northeast with the Superintendent's House, the Assistant Superintendent's House, the Small Boys' Quarters, and the Hospital in the background.
An inscription on the reverse identifies the image as having been taken in May of 1888.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Baker (right) and Maurice Walker (Maurice Yellow Hair) (left).
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date June 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Samuel Dion.
Previous cataloging from the National Anthropological Archives for their version of this image identified a date of July 11, 1888 in the handwritten caption.
Note: In other school documentation Samuel Dion is known as Samuel C. Deon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Dion.
Previous cataloging from the National Anthropological Archives identified a date of July 11, 1888 in the handwritten caption.
Note: In other school documentation Samuel Dion is known as Samuel C. Deon.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt and his family posed with other adult white men and women with children, probably staff and teachers.
Version 2 of this image is dated July 14, 1884.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Brule Iron Eagle Feather wearing school uniform.
The National Anthropolgoical Archives version of this image dates it to October 1888.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Studio portrait of Alexander Manabove and Eagle Little Hawk.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date October 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Modoc Wind and Jonas Place.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date October 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution