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 Robert Taylor.
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
Studio portrait of six female students, identified by the caption as "Grad girls of 95." This would identify them as Henrietta Fremont, Susie McDougal, Ida La Chapelle, Alice Lambert, Melissa Green, and Laura Long.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten label on the slide reads: The Dining Hall
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Michael Couture.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Tall Chief, an Osage chief.
Tall Chief is also in the group of Osage chiefs in PA-CH1-075b and with students in NAA73481.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benjamin Green.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-066a and CS-CH-025. The second copy has the date December 3, 1895 written on the back.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten label on the slide reads: Girls Industrial Room.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten label on the slide reads: Gymnasium at Play
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten label on the slide reads: Art Class at Work. Printed on the label is the manufacturer of the slide C. T. Milligan, 728 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 12. 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: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten label on the slide reads: Campus. Evening. Printed on the label is the manufacturer of the slide C. T. Milligan, 728 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA.
The photograph was taken looking south. Moving from left to right the buildings visible are: the Superintendent's Quarters, the Administration Building, the Guard House, the Academic Building, and the back of the Girls' Quarters. Male students are visible in the foreground where a tennis court is laid out, and females students can be seen in the background.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 6.
A print of this image credited to photographer John H. Andrews is in Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections. However, it is possible that the image was originally taken by student photographer John Leslie, who is credited with many of the images in the pamphlet.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Richard Grant.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten label on the slide reads: Laundry
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten label on the slide reads: The Kitchen Before Dinner
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Mary Wilkinson wearing school uniform.
Note: This image also contains caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Fire Cloud.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ernest Roe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Robert Elige Crow.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Students playing basketball in the school gymnasium. Students are in a circle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of three male and four female students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of Robert B. Johnson as a student at the Carlisle Indian School around 1895.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe) as he graduated in 1895.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Viola Zieh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Susie Baker and Mamie Ryan, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The photograph was taken looking south. Moving from left to right the buildings visible are: the Superintendent's Quarters, the Administration Building, the Guard House, the Academic Building, and the back of the Girls' Quarters. Male students are visible in the foreground where a tennis court is laid out, and females students can be seen in the background.
This image also appears in pamphlet United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 6.
This print is marked as being by photographer John H. Andrews. However, it is possible that the image was originally taken by student photographer John Leslie, who is credited with many of the images in the pamphlet, and perhaps was only printed by Andrews.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
