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 Grace Red Eagle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hiram Blackchief (left) and Edwin Moore (right)
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of nine female and ten male students.
The top caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF 1894, INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.
The lower caption reads: Flora Campbell, Alaskan. Howard Gansworth, Tuscarora. Thos. B. Bear, Sioux. Martha Napawat, Kiowa. Susie Metoxen, Oneida. Emmanuel Bellefeuille, Chippewa. Wm. H. Tygar, Shawnee. Belinda Archiquette, Oneida. Siceni Nori, Pueblo. Andrew Beard, Sioux. Henry Warren, Chipppewa. Wm. Denomie, Chippewa. Ida Warren, Chippewa. Hugh Sowcea, Pueblo. Minnie M. Yandell, Bannock. James D. Flannery, Alaskan. Florence L. Wells, Alaskan. Florence Miller, Stockbridge. Ida Powlas, Oneida.
The handwritten note on the reverse reads: Chas. W Buck.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 21.
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this photograph (11-A-04).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Dora Gray probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David McFarland wearing non-native clothing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jeanette Rice wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sohn George.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Abraham Lone Bear wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Van Wert.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Van Arnum wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Six Crow students [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_088a.jpg?itok=uRZ3qv0X "Six Crow students [version 2], c.1892")
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 Wiley Morgan wearing a uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Julia Ladeaux wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martin Round Face.
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 Effie Spencer wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Kawaykla wearing uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David Abraham dressed in a uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Delos Lone Wolf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Amelia Kills the Bull.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Six Crow students [version 1], c.1894](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73454.jpg?itok=-K81gzpF "Six Crow students [version 1], c.1894")
Studio portrait of four female students and two male students. The caption identifies them as being from the Crow nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Daniel Osage West posed with a bicycle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Group of male and female student printers [version 1], c.1894](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/74290.jpg?itok=ApIXozUT "Group of male and female student printers [version 1], c.1894")
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 Amy Johnson and Lucy Lowin.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Carrie Cornelius (left) and Marian King (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society