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.
Search Images
Please Note: The Search box above only searches certain fields in the Image Collection. To search the entire site, use the search box on the top left.
You are searching the title, description, photographer, and location fields.
Browse Images
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 Rachel Tsikahda Morgan and Melinda Porter, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Dickens. Although the caption lists him as Apache, he is actually Yavapai.
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
![Charlotte Wilson [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_050a.jpg?itok=FOdwZpig "Charlotte Wilson [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Charlotte Wilson.
Note: The identification of Wilson as Shawnee is a mistake. She is not identfiied as such in her school records.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Robert Tome [?], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_049d.jpg?itok=AC0EY4eb "Robert Tome [?], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Robert Tome [?].
Note: This original caption for this image identifies him as Robert Thomas (Caddo nation). There are no records of a student with that name. Therefore we believe it is Caddo student Robert Tome.
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
![Samuel Tilden [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_035C.jpg?itok=6HXDCHSx "Samuel Tilden [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Samuel Tilden.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe) wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Paul Teenabikizen.
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 Julia Cobell and Susie Farwell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Ball.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![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
Studio portrait of Maggie Simpson.
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
Studio portrait of Melinda Metoxen.
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 Charles Smith.
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
![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
![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
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 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
![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