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 Etta Catolst wearing school uniform.
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 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 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 Jacob Jamison.
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 Myron Moses wearing school uniform.
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 Martin Round Face.
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 Wesson Murdock.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students.
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 two visiting chiefs with ten male students and ten female students.
Previous cataloging indicates that these are Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs and students, and that the date of the photo is March 1894.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two visiting chiefs with ten male student and ten female students.
Previous cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image indicates they are Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs and students and that it was taken in March 1894.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of visiting chiefs Quanah Parker (seated in the middle row) and Lone Wolf (standing in the back row, third from the left) with three female students and six male students. The wife of Quanah Parker, Tonarcy, is seated next to him in the center of the photo.
Previous cataloging indicates a date of March 1894 is scratched into this glass plate.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of visiting chiefs Quanah Parker (seated in the middle row) and Lone Wolf (standing in the back row, third from the left) with three female students and six male students. The wife of Quanah Parker, Tonarcy, is seated next to him in the center of the photo.
The National Anthropological Archives version of this image has the date March 1894 scratched into the glass plate.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Kiowa Chief Lone Wolf with his sons, William Lone Wolf (seated left) and Delos Lone Wolf (standing left) and another student (standing right), c.1895.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Josephine Lane [?] wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Group portrait of twelve young male students, some in baseball uniforms and posed with baseball equipment. One student's uniform has "Juvenile" on the front and others have "J.C." Carlisle student George Conner is standing in the center wearing a suit, so he may have been coaching or managing the team.
Previous cataloging identifies the date of this photo was May 26, 1894.
The Juveniles was one of the school's baseball teams.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Sylvania Cooper and Cynthia Cooper. Due to her age, we believe Cynthia is the one on the right.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Caption: THE SMALL BOYS' QUARTERS.
accommodate 100 of the smallest boys, who are under the care of a matron. The sleeping rooms have three beds, a wardrobe, washstand, table and chairs ; and the building, 212 x 36 feet, contains bath rooms, assembly rooms, readings rooms and library.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 27. No prints of this image have yet been located.
Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably taken by student photographer John Leslie.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Miss Spyna Devereaux
Group of female and male students in school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Caption: GROUP OF APACHES.
Of all the Indians Carlisle has undertaken, no tribe presented a more hopeless outlook than the Apaches from Arizona, who have long held a most unenviable reputation as the outlaws and the Ishmaelites of the Indians. Carlisle's experience with the Apaches is that they are as susceptible as others of civilization. They are unusually active and valuable as workers.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 36.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Caption reads: GYMNASIUM INTERIOR.
One of the most useful buildings at the School is the Gymnasium, 150 x 60 feet, built wholly from contributed funds. In addition to its regular use for gymnastic purposes and drills, it is the place for general social gatherings of the School. It is supplied with apparatus in the use of which, under the direction of an instructor, both girls and boys each day drill with great benefit to health and deportment.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 32.
This image was probably originally taken by student photographer John Leslie, who is credited with many of the images in the pamphlet.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
