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 Donald McIntosh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David McFarland and Ben Harrison, both in band uniforms, holding musical instruments--one a saxophone and the other a cornet. McFarland is probably on the left holding a saxophone, and Harrison is probably on the right holding a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martha Washington wearing school uniform.
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 Jesse Kenjockety.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Florence Walton and Cynthia Webster, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sarah Kennedy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Jerome Kennerly [version 2], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_048a.jpg?itok=x8JHR-Mu "Jerome Kennerly [version 2], c.1893")
Studio portrait of Jerome Kennerly.
Note: Kennerly was six years old when he arrived at the school in 1893.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Andrew Red Duck.
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
Studio portrait of Louise La Chapelle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of five male and one female students, the graduating class of 1893.
They are, back row, standing, left to right: Malcolm Clark, Fred Big Horse, Arthur Johnson; front row, sitting, left to right: John Baptiste, Emily Peake, John G. Morrison.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 20.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH3-002, 11-A-03 and 15-26-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Philip Iron Tail wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Amos Osage.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Eddie Running Crane.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Robert Hamilton.
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
Studio portrait of Mary Cut Foot probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jack Stewart, Thomas Stewart, and Charles Yarlot, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nelson Hare.
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
Studio portrait of Charles Cusick.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Culbertson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Morrison, Martin Round Face, and James Waldo. Two of them are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Nelson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society