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 Mamie Blue Jacket.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Linnie Laura Thompson and Emmeline Patterson (right), both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two female students.
Note: The caption written on this photo identifies the sitters as Maggie and Kate and provides a date of 1894. It is possible that these are students Maggie Simpson and Kate Stocker, who are shown together in another photograph (Cumberland County Historical Society PA-CH3-020a).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 Louisa Pinkham and Sarah Vanacy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martha Sickles and Caleb Sickles.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of five unidentified female students and two unidentified male students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of ten unidentified male students in school uniforms.
Previous cataloging identifies the students as from the Flathead or Salish nation and provides a date of January 189[?]. A group of Flathead students arrived in November 1893, so this is probably that group, taken in January 1894.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charlotte (here Lottie) Harris probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Minnie Yandell, probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Fleety Payne and Lillie Payne, both probably wearing school uniforms.
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 Maggie Simpson and Kate Stocker.
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 Samuel Six Killer.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Dora Gray probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of four female students and two male students. The caption identifies them as being from the Crow nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Pontiac posed holding a violin.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Abram Hill.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Effie Spencer wearing school uniform.
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.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Belinda Archiquette.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Wesson Murdock.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nancy Wheelock.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society