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 Peter Chief Eagle wearing a uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Josiah Redwolf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Red Kettle wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Nellie Carey [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_075a.jpg?itok=iQ3pLoEM "Nellie Carey [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Nellie Carey probably wearing a school uniform with a patterned bow.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Julia Cobell and Susie Farwell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sarah Smith.
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
![Herbert Good Boy [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74207.jpg?itok=wCMCI_c9 "Herbert Good Boy [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Hebert Good Boy.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Albert Silas wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Elmer Simon wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Ben Harrison, John Morrison, Charles Dubray, and Martin Round Face [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_000va.jpg?itok=dbuHTZKU "Ben Harrison, John Morrison, Charles Dubray, and Martin Round Face [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of John Morrison, Martin Round Face, Charles Dubray, and Ben Harrison posed holding "Indian club" exercise equipment. One (probably John Morrison) is wearing a shirt with the monogram "C.I.T.S."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Maggie Simpson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Everett.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Albert Sitting Eagle [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_030C.jpg?itok=f0wrencL "Albert Sitting Eagle [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Albert Sitting Eagle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_051b.jpg?itok=X3SOkMya "Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Herbert Good Boy [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_099c.jpg?itok=Ybs96SOz "Herbert Good Boy [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Herbert Good Boy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_067e.jpg?itok=Scuccd3f "Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?].
Note: The caption for this image is "Darthy Nol" (or possibly Darthy No 1"). There are no records for a student by that name. The only student named Dorothy who attended while Choate was taking photographs was Dorothy Dekhlikiseh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 1], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73475.jpg?itok=p_rx8dP2 "Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 1], 1892")
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
Studio portrait of Hattie Long Wolf (left), Amos Long Wolf (center), and Hannah Long Wolf (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 2], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_040.jpg?itok=1W76-9vR "Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 2], 1892")
Portrait of a large group of male students in front of YMCA building, presumably the members of the YMCA. The date 1892 is written along the side of this image.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: FB03-21 and PA-CH2-040.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Piegan Chiefs (Blackfoot Confederacy) [version 1], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_058a.jpg?itok=_XNCGXMO "Piegan Chiefs (Blackfoot Confederacy) [version 1], 1892")
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 eight female students. The caption identifies them as "Pupil teachers, 1892."
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 Clark Gregg wearing 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