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 Taylor Smith.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Corbett Lawyer and Edward Spott. Both are probably wearing school uniforms.
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
Studio portrait of Benjamin Green, William Little Hawk, and Edward Fritz. Two are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Robert Taylor.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Maggie Trombly and Mary Beaulieu.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Matthew Brown.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Richard Grant.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sidney Burr.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 Julia Elmore and Elizabeth Williams, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Dickens (seated at left) and Mark Hopkins (standing at right). Dickens is holding a decorative beaded cane.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lewis Williams, often known as Lewis Daniel Williams (to differentiate him from another Nez Perce student of the same name).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Amelia Clark and Susan Gibbs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Cynthia Webster.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student wearing a nurse's uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Viola Zieh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Carefelle.
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
![Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 1], c.1895](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73705.jpg?itok=NUyQI8Mb "Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 1], c.1895")
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 James Fire Cloud.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lydia Smith.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bessie Gotholda.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Caption: THE CAMPUS IN WINTER.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 28. 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