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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![Stephen Reuben [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74226.jpg?itok=MnqEwAyi "Stephen Reuben [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Stephen Reuben wearing school uniform with star-shaped pin.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Anni Medicine wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Simon King and Martin Archiquette [?], 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73904.jpg?itok=tjeDEXlO "Simon King and Martin Archiquette [?], 1891")
Studio portrait of Simon King and Martin Archiquette.
Note: The written caption on this image only includes "Archiquette" with no first name. The identification of this as Martin Archiquette is tentative.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Keiser and Maggie Keiser. Frank is in a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Christine Redstone wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Johnson and William Beaulieu.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joseph Cobell wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Chester Smith.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of student Charles Smith (standing at left) with three visiting chiefs and one male student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Albert White Wolf [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73802.jpg?itok=KmUgNhGr "Albert White Wolf [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Albert White Wolf.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Paul Good Bear and Joseph Spaniard.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martha Napawat probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ne Koh Ke Pah Nah, an Osage chief, with two unidentified male students.
Identification of the chief is based on comparison with CCHS PA-CH2-005c. He appears to have visited the school in 1891 and 1895.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Ne Koh Ke Pah Nah, an Osage chief.
Newspapers record visits from the chief to Carlisle in 1891 and 1895.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of visiting Osage chiefs with their interpreters.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has identified the following sitters based on comparison with other photos: standing, back row, left to right: James Bigheart, Ne Koh Ke Pah Nah, William Connor, Saucy Chief, and Ed Mathews; sitting, front row. left to right: Alvin Wood, Tall Chief, Strike Axe, and Ne Kah Ko Lah.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Tall Chief (Osage) with three male students.
Tall Chief is also in the group of Osage chiefs in PA-CH1-075b and on his own in PA-CH2-005b.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joseph H. Hamilton (seated left), Robert Hamilton (standing) and Anthony Austin (seated right), all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Hugh Leider.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Dennison Wheelock with a cornet [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74283.jpg?itok=IDAULfsh "Dennison Wheelock with a cornet [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Dennison Wheelock wearing a band uniform, holding a cornet and a conductor's baton.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Twenty-one Crow students [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74362.jpg?itok=EsY3lA1a "Twenty-one Crow students [version 1], c.1891")
Portrait of twenty-one students-eleven male and ten female-posed on the steps outside a brick building, probably on the school grounds. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of the image identifies them as "Crows from the Crow Agency, Montana, who entered the Carlisle Indian School in 1890."
Previous cataloging for this image interprets part of the caption scratched on the plate as giving a date of 1897.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Robert Hamilton wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joseph H. Hamilton holding a straw hat.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Amos Hamilton.
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 Thomas Guardipee wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society