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.
Search Images
Please Note: The Search box above only searches certain fields in the Image Collection. To search the entire site, use the search box on the top left.
You are searching the title, description, photographer, and location fields.
Browse Images
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 Amelia Kills the Bull.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna McMillon and Mary Miller, both probably wearing school uniforms.
This image contains photographs of other students because the captions for this image are written above them.
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 Fleety Payne and Lillie Payne, both probably wearing school uniforms.
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 Thomas Mason.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Lufkins.
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 Melinda Metoxen.
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 Matthew Johnson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Tawney Owl.
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 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 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
Studio portrait of Martha Sickles.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Caption: THE BASE BALL TEAM.
The School nine is not always beaten when it comes to a contest with college and other organizations following base ball as a profession.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle Penna ([1895?]), p. 58. 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 caption reads: DR. MONTEZUMA, APACHE INDIAN – RESIDENT PHYSICIAN AT SCHOOL '95-'97. TRAINED NURSES AT HOSPITAL.
This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of John Kennedy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
