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 Susan Rodd.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Kose, Robert Hamilton, Anthony Austin, and Charles Buck, all wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Blanche Melbourne, Rufus Ricker, and Ezra Ricker.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Thomas Kitewmi and Timothy Henry [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_047b.jpg?itok=Ugc_ULH8 "Thomas Kitewmi and Timothy Henry [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Thomas Kitewmi and Timothy Henry, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Thomas Kitewmi and Timothy Henry [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74402.jpg?itok=l6K60s8t "Thomas Kitewmi and Timothy Henry [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Thomas Kitewmi and Timothy Henry, both in school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Josiah Redwolf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
Studio portrait of James King (left) and Louis King (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nellie Robertson probably wearing school uniform.
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
![Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, William Crazy Bull, and Charles Smith [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_097c.jpg?itok=gNsSHQl8 "Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, William Crazy Bull, and Charles Smith [version 2], c.1892")
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 Charles Smith.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Officers group [version 1], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73472.jpg?itok=V7TbHG8v "Officers group [version 1], 1892")
Portrait of a large group of male students in uniforms, accompanied by a white man in the center of the bottom row, posed on the steps of one of the student quarters on the school grounds.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image has a caption identifying the students as an Officers Group and providing a date of 1892. This plate also has 1892 scratched into it.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Henry Old Eagle, George Running Horse, and Samuel Flying Horse [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_051c.jpg?itok=N3pac2JA "Henry Old Eagle, George Running Horse, and Samuel Flying Horse [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Henry Old Eagle, George Running Horse, and Samuel Flying Horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Running Horse and George Ladeaux.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![James Waldo [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74206.jpg?itok=_u1PVDkE "James Waldo [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of James Waldo.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Piegan Chiefs (Blackfoot Confederacy) [version 2], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0010.jpg?itok=z3KE_wqW "Piegan Chiefs (Blackfoot Confederacy) [version 2], 1892")
A typed 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 six female Nez Perce students and one young male Nez Perce student. All are wearing school uniforms.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society staff has identified some of the sitters based on comparison with other photographs . Front row (seated), from left to right: Alice Hayes, Jean Swan, [unknown], and Effie Spencer. Back row (standing), from left to right: [Unknown], Anna Parnell, and Julia Jonas.
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
![Samuel Tilden [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74163.jpg?itok=H4LtfQrL "Samuel Tilden [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Samuel Tilden.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of George Conner (seated on the right) and Charles Wright.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nancy Wheelock and Elijah Wheelock. Elijah is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Sarah Smith.
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
![Charlotte Wilson [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74099.jpg?itok=Z5BTYm7h "Charlotte Wilson [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Charlotte Wilson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution