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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Portrait of nineteen unidentified female students with a white woman, presumably a teacher, posed on the school grounds.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Second school building with many students on the porches and lined up to enter.
This building was built in 1888, replacing the original school building.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of T.J. Morgan, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, posed with Richard Henry Pratt and the school's teachers on the school grounds.
The school newspapers reported a visited by Morgan to the school in February of 1890. It's possible that this photograph was taken at that time although the weather does not appear very wintry.
The people and the way they are posed is almost identical to another sitting of this group in images: PA-CH2-027 and 10-A-06.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of thirteen unidentified male students and five unidentified female students. Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Pawnee nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
View of the exterior of a brick building with the sign "Blacksmith and Wagon Shop," with a wagon and a white man in front and two men in the doorway.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The guard house with three figures, probably two men and one boy, standing in front. One man is leaning on what appears to be a tree stump. Poles for electrical wires are visible behind the building.
Previous cataloging assigns a date of 1897 to this image but it is not clear what this is based on.
This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902). It was also used to create postcards, see Related Images below.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
View of students and instructors posed with wheels in front of a brick building with the sign "Blacksmith and Wagon Shop."
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-068b, PA-CH3-013a, and BS-CH-054.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of seventeen unidentified male students in school uniforms with one white man in the center of the group.
Previous cataloging has interpreted the caption to indicate the group is Cheyenne and that the date is January 1890.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of T.J. Morgan, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, posed with Richard Henry Pratt and the school's teachers on the school grounds.
The school newspapers reported a visited by Morgan to the school in February of 1890. It's possible that this photograph was taken at that time although the weather does not appear very wintry.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-027 and 10-A-06. They identify Commissioner Morgan as being seated in the second row, fifth from the left.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of male and female students posed on steps of a building on the school grounds, with a white man standing at left. The caption says that these are "Piegan from Blackfeet Agency, Montana, entered Carlisle in November 1889 and March 1890."
The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of this image says that the students arrived in November 1889 and gives a date for the image of March 1890.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Susie Metoxen wearing school uniform.
Note: Handwritten caption along side of image: "Susie Metoxen, Mar. 1888."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of male and female students posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds, with a white man standing at left. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society copy of this image states that they are "Piegan from Blackfeet Agency, Montana, entered Carlisle in November 1889 and March 1890." Previous cataloging for this copy interprets the caption as saying that these students arrived in November 1889 and that the date for this image is March 1890.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A student, wearing a hat and holding an axe or hatchet, standing in the courtyard of the workshops.
The written caption says: "Andrew Brohme, an Apache Indian, 21 years old, learning to be a carpenter at the Indian School at Carlisle, Penn. June 10, 1890."
It seems almost certain that this is student Matthew Broom, a member of the Apache Nation, who was at the school at this time and who would have been the right age, and whose student file says he was training in carpentry.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Cloud and Aggie Cloud.
Lucy and Aggie were sisters. Lucy was the older sister and is probably seated on the left.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: Lucy and Aggie Cloud, Dec. 1890.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nellie Carey.
Note: Descriptive information supplied by NAA indicates the date of this image as December, 1890. This may be contained on a caption that's not visible on the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Willie Hazlett (standing) and Richard Sanderville, the latter in school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Richard Sanderville wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Richard Sanderville, William Leighton, and John Frost. Two are in school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Jane Mark.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alice Long Pole.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Minnie Perrine.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Martha Napawat probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Morrison.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Maggie Old Eagle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Kitewmi and Hugh Soucea.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution