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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Two photographs attached to a cabinet card. The top image is the Indian School student body in 1892 (see PA-CH2-041 in Related Images); the bottom image is identified as the Indian School and Battalion.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Susan Rodd.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nellie Robertson probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![James Waldo [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_036C.jpg?itok=b5TjRWb7 "James Waldo [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of James Waldo.
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
Studio portrait of Josiah Redwolf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 Henry Red Kettle wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lewis Williams, often known as Lewis Daniel Williams (to differentiate him from another Nez Perce student of the same name).
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 Philip Marshall, Mary Cut Foot, and Harrison Marshall.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Evans.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Joseph Morrison and James R. Wheelock [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_031B.jpg?itok=aYukBJ90 "Joseph Morrison and James R. Wheelock [version 2], c.1892")
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 George Conner (seated on the right) and Charles Wright.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![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
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 George McDaniels wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Joseph Morrison and James R. Wheelock [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74083.jpg?itok=fDeC5VQe "Joseph Morrison and James R. Wheelock [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Joseph Morrison (left) and James R. Wheelock (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of David McFarland.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anthony Austin (seated left), Thomas Kose (standing left), Robert Hamilton (standing right), and Charles Buck (seated right) in school uniforms taken around 1892.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
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 Isaac Webster.
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 Hattie Long Wolf (sitting at left), Celinda Metoxen (standing in center), and Nellie Carey (sitting at right), all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles White, David McFarland, and Lewis Williams (also known as Luke Williams). All are wearing school uniforms.
Note: This image contains partial caption information for a different photograph.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society