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 Sarah Williams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charlotte (here Lottie) Harris probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mamie Blue Jacket.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Hanbury.
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 Ella Rickert and Mary Wilkinson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Wesson Murdock.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Etta Catolst wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Myron Moses wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Susie McDougal and Alice Lambert.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jessie Spread Hands (left) and Izora Taylor (right). Both are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Mason.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Daniel Morrison.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Peter Oscar.
The caption written on this image is "Peter Oscar Carpenter." Oscar's file shows that he was trained as and later worked as a carpenter, so this is not part of his name.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ollie Nichols wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Christine (also known as Tenie) Wirth.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jacob Jamison.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of fourteen male students in uniform and a white man in a uniform posed on the steps of a school building. The caption identifies them as "Officers."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Baptiste Marengo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of eight male students identified in the caption as "Double quartette (Invincibles)."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two male students.
The caption for this photo was written at a later date in ink. This caption identifies them as "H. Morrison and George Warren." There are no records for a student with that last name of Morrison with a first name starting with H. Based on comparison with other photographs we believe he is Daniel Morrison. The student on right does appear to be student George Warren.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Antonio Jose Martinez wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of three unidentified male students seated at a table stacked with books. Behind them is a banner which reads "Standard En Avant." They may be members of the Standard Debating Society.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Stewart (left) and Nelson Hare (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of a large group of male and female students with a white male teacher in the center of the group. The caption identifies them as students who worked in the print shop.
One copy of this image has the sitters identified. They are, back row, left to right: William Denomie, Robert Hudson, Leroy W. Kennedy, Leander Gansworth, Timothy Henry, W.R. Claudy (Assistnt Printer), John Sanborn, Luther Dahhah, William Dominick, William Lufkins, Sibbald Smith, Clark Gregg; middle row, left to right: Fred A. Wilson, Siceni Nori, Philp Lavatta, Levi Saint Cyr (Foreman), M. Burgess (Sup't of Printing), James Riley Wheelock, Thomas Hanbury, Brigman, John Webster; front row, left to right: George Buck, Pressly Houk, Susie McDougal, Alice Lambert, Ida LaChapelle, James Hill, Samuel Six Killer.
W. Clandy and Marianna Burgess were staff members.
Note: The name "John" in the lower right of this image is part of a caption for a different image.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH3-057a, BS-CH-041, LE-046, and 13-18-01.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 49. The caption for the image is: GROUP OF PRINTERS.
Students must be fairly well advanced in their school work before they can enter the printing office.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
