Images

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 Samuel Flying Horse (standing), wearing school uniform, and Chief Charging Shield (seated). 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Benjamin Doxtator.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studo portrait of Peter Alexander.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of William Crazy Bull. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of John Webster and Roger Silas, both wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of David Sku-vi-uk wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of three female and nine male students, the graduating class of 1892. 

They are, back row, standing, left to right: Thomas Metoxen, Hattie Long Wolf, Reuben Wolf, Luzena Choteau, William Baird; front row, seated, left to right: Albert Bishop, Benajah Miles, Frank Everett, Joseph H. Hamilton, Lydia Flint, Benjamin Caswell, Fred Peake.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 19.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH2-073, 11-A-02, and 15-25-01.

 Note: Athough Isabella Cornelius graduated in 1892 she is not in this photograph.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Joseph Morrison (at left) and James R. Wheelock (at right).

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-031b and CS-CH-055. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Isaac Webster.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of eight Piegan chiefs. 

The January 8, 1892 issue of the  Indian Helper (vol. 7 no. 17) reports that these chiefs had visited the school the previous week.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has six copies of this image. One of those copies identifies the chiefs as Running Crane, Little Dog, White Grass, White Calf, Little Plume, Four Horns, Brocky, Bear Chief (or Little Bear Chief).  

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Jean Swan and Effie Spencer both wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of George McDaniels wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of J. Grover Ground. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Mary Davis and Richenda Davis, children of school employees and former students Richard Davis and Nellie Aspenall Davis. 

Note: Mary and Richenda were not enrolled as students. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of David McFarland.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of young male and female students posed on the steps of a brick building. The caption identifies them as "Miss Coony's Class."

School records show a teacher named Carrie Cory in 1892.  

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Herbert Good Boy (back row at left) , Robert Horse (back row at right), William Crazy Bull (front row at left), and Charles Smith (front row at right). Crazy Bull is holding a framed portrait of a woman.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of eight female students. The caption identifies them as "Pupil teachers, 1892." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Jeanette Buckles.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Almeda Heavy Hair.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Frank Crouse wearing a uniform. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The printed note on the reverse side reads: PIEGAN CHIEFS (BLACKFOOT CONFEDERACY) VISITING CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL (ca. 1891).

Front Seated Left - Running Crane, Chief of Lone Eaters.
Front Seated Center - Little Dog, Chief of the Black Patched Moccasins Bands.
Seated Center Left - White Grass.
Right of Center - White Calf, Head Chief of Piegans in Montana.
Far Right - Little Plume.
Standing Left - Four Horns.
Standing Center - Brocky.
Standing Right - Bear Chief.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of James Waldo. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Joel Cornelius wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of male students in front of YMCA building, presumably the members of the YMCA. 

On the Cumberland County Historical Society's print of this image the date 1892 is written along the side. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution