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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The handwritten label on the slide reads: Laundry
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 Dahnola Jassan and John Jassan, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Enter Lodge.
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
Studio portrait of Newton Pierce wearing school uniform.
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 three male and four female students.
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 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
Studio portrait of Michael Couture.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Low Cloud.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School band practicing on the grounds.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe) as he graduated from the Carlisle Indian School in 1895.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Julia Long.
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 Archive Libby wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF 1895, INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.
Clark Greg, (Assinaboine.) David Turkey, (Seneca.) George Warren, (Chippewa.) Laura Long, (Wyandotte.) Wm. Hazlett, (Piegan.) Wm. Lufkins, (Chippewa.) Isaac Baird, (Oneida.) Lewis Williams, (Nez Perce.) Ida LaChapelle, (Chippewa.) Melissa Green, (Oneida.) George Suis, (Crow.) Alice Lambert, (Chippewa.) Chauncy Y. Robe, (Sioux.) Wm. Moore, (Sac & Fox.) Nettie Freemont, (Omaha.) James Van Wert, (Chippewa.) Antoine Donnell, (Chippewa.) Samuel Sixkiller, (Cherokee.) Susie McDougall, (Chippewa.) George Buck, (Sioux.)
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this photograph (11-A-05).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Robert Elige Crow.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alice Parker.
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 Harold Parker, Laura Parker, and Juanada Parker.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unknown student in a band uniform.
NOTE: Although this image appears to have been labeled "George Conner" by the photographer, Conner family members do not believe this to be him. The person pictured here also does look distinctly different from the numerous other photos positively identified as George Conner.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 Mary Miller, Lily Miller, and Nettie Miller, all probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society