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 James Pontiac wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Riley Wheelock (right) and Martin Wheelock, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Felix Iron Eagle Feather.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles Smith (left) and Henry Old Eagle (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Robert Horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Smith (Charles Red Hawk).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Maggie Old Eagle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna Tabasash.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Richard Sanderville, William Leighton, and John Frost [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73996.jpg?itok=NzCyef_b "Richard Sanderville, William Leighton, and John Frost [version 1], c.1891")
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
![Ernest Hogee and Jason Betzinez [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_057c.jpg?itok=Sxjt7pUp "Ernest Hogee and Jason Betzinez [version 2], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Ernest Hogee (standing at left) and Jason Betzinez (seated at right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lydia Flint, Hattie Long Wolf, Etta Robertson, and Luzena Choteau [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA%2073817.jpg?itok=34Usf09s "Lydia Flint, Hattie Long Wolf, Etta Robertson, and Luzena Choteau [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Lydia Flint, Hattie Long Wolf, Etta Robertson, and Luzena Choteau, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Martin Round Face and Albert Hensley.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Ida Wasee.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Flynn and John Kennedy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Isaiah Wasaquam.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of five male students (all wearing school uniforms) and five female students. Previous cataloging interprets the caption as identifying the students as Pawnee, and naming three of them as Rose Howell, Phoebe Howell, and Ann Townsend. Rose and Phoebe were both Pawnee students. There is no student named Ann Townsend so this may actually be Sam Townsend, referring to Pawnee student Samuel Townsend.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Melinda Metoxen.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Peter Camp, Belknap Fox, Charles Knor, and William Ball, from Fort Belknap.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Celicia Wheelock, Ida Wheelock, James R. Wheelock, and Dennison Wheelock. James and Dennison are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Dennison Wheelock with a cornet [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_000vc.jpg?itok=aFKEkrss "Dennison Wheelock with a cornet [version 2], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Dennison Wheelock wearing a band uniform, holding a cornet and a conductor's baton.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benedict Jozhe.
Note: This image also contains caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Katie Grindrod.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Louis Caswell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Albert White Wolf [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_052c.jpg?itok=QX37XIev "Albert White Wolf [version 2], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Albert White Wolf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of one female and ten male students, the graduating class of 1891.
They are, back row, left to right: Robert Matthews (seated), Martin Archiquette, John Tyler, William Froman, Charles E. Dagenett; middle row, seated, left to right: Henry Standing Bear, Etta Robertson, Levi St. Cyr, Harry Kohpay; front row, seated, Josiah Powlas and Yamie Leeds.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 18.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-024 and 15-22-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections