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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![Nineteen Arapaho students [version 1], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73299.jpg?itok=FAioHpuE "Nineteen Arapaho students [version 1], c.1890")
Studio portrait of sixteen male students and three female students. The caption identifies them as from the Arapaho tribe.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Rosa Bourassa. A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Rose Baunassa.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Edward Davis wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A composite of different Carlisle Indian School images from around 1890.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![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
Teachers club with tables set with table clothes. Radiator in the background along with exposed light bulb hanging from the ceiling.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W, Postcard
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Joseph Blackbear in school uniform.
Note: This image contains partial caption information for a different photograph.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Patrick Bitter [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_030A.jpg?itok=EBvnzFVu "Patrick Bitter [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Patrick Bitter holding a large light bowler hat.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![View of the school grounds from the school building [version 2], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/12-07-04.jpg?itok=OrIDE8Jw "View of the school grounds from the school building [version 2], c.1884")
View of the school grounds looking east/northeast, probably taken from the porch of the School Building. On the left is the Teachers' Quarters, with a fence around the area behind the quarters. On the right is the Chapel. The Large Boys' Quarters is visible in the center in the distance.
The Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections also has a copy of this image: CIS-MC-003, box 1, folder 13.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Colonel Elk Horn.
A handwritten caption along the top of the image probably reads: Colonel Horn.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joseph Ezhuna.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mark Evarts.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Benjamin American Horse wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Student portrait of an unidentified male student.
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
Studio portrait of an identified male student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Ell (left) and Anthony Austin (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Ellis (left) and George Ell (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Eustace Esapoyhet, Frank Everett, and two unidentified young men.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Julia Edwards.
Note: This image also contains caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Josiah Archiquette wearing school uniform.
Note: This sitter in this image was previously identified as Joshua Archiquette. However, there is no student by that name in the school records. Therefore, we now believe this to be Josiah Archiquette.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Twelve Cheyenne students [version 1], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73649.jpg?itok=m8eR77PS "Twelve Cheyenne students [version 1], c.1890")
Studio portrait of nine male student and three female students. The caption identifies them as being from the Cheyenne nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Twenty Crow students [version 1], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73920.jpg?itok=M7UdM07p "Twenty Crow students [version 1], c.1890")
Studio portrait of sixteen male students and four female students, all wearing school uniforms. Previous cataloging interprets the caption for this image, scratched into the plate, as saying they are from the Crow nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution