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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![Garry Myers [?], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74113.jpg?itok=ElxfzBqM "Garry Myers [?], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Garry Myers [?].
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Kate Stocker and Jessie Spread Hands.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Levi St. Cyr [version 3], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_055a.jpg?itok=RhOr-arq "Levi St. Cyr [version 3], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Levi St. Cyr.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of seven unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lena Webster and Veronica Holliday.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Mawbeens Waymegance wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of James Waldo.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified young male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joshua Walker wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Eight Chippewa male students [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_079b.jpg?itok=l_yJNjpu "Eight Chippewa male students [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of eight male students, all wearing school uniforms. The caption states that they are from the Chippewa nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lizzie Stands [version 1] c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74071.jpg?itok=o-YR1ueD "Lizzie Stands [version 1] c.1890")
Studio portrait of Lizzie Stands, probably wearing school uniform, seated with a hat on her lap.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Alfred Laravie wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Twelve Cheyenne students [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_089b.jpg?itok=9HMNMICN "Twelve Cheyenne students [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of nine students and three female students. The caption identifies them as being from the Cheyenne nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Isaac Webster and an unidentified male student, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of a young man wearing school uniform. The handwritten caption reads something like "Odella," and so we believe it is either Odell La Fleur (Colville Nation) or Odellah Ahtley (Apache Nation).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Cynthia Webster and John Webster.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Eight Chippewa male students [version 1], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74322.jpg?itok=2k8F07xF "Eight Chippewa male students [version 1], c.1890")
Studio portrait of eight male students, all wearing school uniforms. The caption states that they are all from the Chippewa nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Old Eagle (standing at left) and Louis Crow on Head (seated at right), both wearing school uniforms and holding hats.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Peter Cornelius and William Baird [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch048.jpg?itok=GjXvJJYJ "Peter Cornelius and William Baird [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Peter Cornelius (at left) and William Baird (at right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James One Star wearing school uniform and holding a hat.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students wearing uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Assiniboine and Sioux students [version 1], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73474.jpg?itok=uSR5zPGh "Assiniboine and Sioux students [version 1], c.1890")
Portrait of male and female students posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as being from the Fort Peck reservation. The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy identifies them as Assiniboine and Yankton Sioux from Fort Peck, Montana.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Twenty Crow students [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_014c.jpg?itok=vi1eV0rJ "Twenty Crow students [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of sixteen male students and four female students, all wearing school uniforms.
The handwritten caption on this album page, located between PA-CH-014a and this image (PA-CH2-14c) reads "Crow groups," so it is presumed that both of these groups of students are from the Crow nation. The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image also identifies them as Crow students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Clarence White Thunder and an unidentified young man.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of James Paints Yellow and Dell Whiting.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution