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 Andrew Red Duck.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Elmore Red Eyes and Benjamin American Horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph American Horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ella Rickert probably wearing school uniform.
Note: This image also contains caption information for a different photograph.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Seventeen male Sioux students [version 2], 1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_004.jpg?itok=mVuMi1Xh "Seventeen male Sioux students [version 2], 1893")
Studio portrait of seventeen male students, some wearing uniforms, some not. The caption identifies them as from the Sioux nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![School Choir [version 2], 1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_003.jpg?itok=YnF2muTr "School Choir [version 2], 1893")
Portrait of fifteen female students and seventeen male students with two white female teachers posed on the bandstand on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the "School Choir, 1893."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Running Horse and Alexander Manabove.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bunn Armstrong.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Sanborn and Victor S. Bear. One is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Melinda Porter.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nellie Barada.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alice Sheffield wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lulu Bisonette probably wearing school uniform.
Note: This student is identified as Lula Bisnett in the caption.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Wood-cutting class [version 2], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_063b.jpg?itok=M_fffqCg "Wood-cutting class [version 2], c.1893")
Studio portrait of eleven students, six male students and five female students, identified in the caption as being the "Wood-cutting class."
The wood cutting class is referenced in the school paper in January 1893.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Brewer and his sister Rachel Brewer, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Edith Smith wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Spaniard (also known as Joe Spanish).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Cynthia Webster.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Kate Stocker wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Horse Looking (at left) and an unidentified male student (at right).
Note: The handwritten caption is difficult to read. The student at right may be Noah Hawk.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Peter Nahmais [?], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_061c.jpg?itok=l77H4rpt "Peter Nahmais [?], c.1893")
Studio portrait of Peter Nahmais [?].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Andrew Light.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nelson Porter and George Martin.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Peter Cadot and David [?], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_043j.jpg?itok=fNK1NnV5 "Peter Cadot and David [?], c.1893")
Studio portrait of Peter Cadot and David [?].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Scott Crane.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society