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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Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt and General O. O. Howard in the center of a large group of male and female students posed in front of a school building. The caption identifies the students as being from the Sioux nation and that the photograph was taken on February 28, 1896.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio photograph of the graduating class of 1896.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: THE CARLISLE INDIAN-SCHOOL FOOTBALL ELEVEN.
Printup, Redwater, H. Pierce, Lonewolf, Wheelock, B. Pierce, Rogers, Morrison, [unidentified], Metoxen, Smith, McFarland, Miller, Jamiason, Cayou, Hudson, Shelafo, Seneca.
This image appears in Harper's Weekly vol. 41, no. 2092 (January 1897): 93.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: THE INDIAN CENTRE.
Lone Wolf, Centre. B. Pierce, Right Guard. Wheelock, Left Guard. Hudson, Quarter-back.
This image appears in Harper's Weekly vol. 40, no. 2081 (October 1896).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: AN INDIAN MASS PLAY ON YALE TACKLE FOR FIVE YARDS GAIN.
The Carlisle Indians played against Yale at Manhattan Field on October 24, 1896.
This image appears in Harper's Weekly vol. 40, no. 2081 (October 1896).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: YALE VS. CARLISLE INDIANS, MANHATTAN FIELD, OCTOBER 24, 1896. Cayou, Indian Back, awaiting his Signal.
This image appears in Harper's Weekly vol. 40, no. 2081 (October 1896).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: INDIANS SCORE A TOUCH-DOWN. Captain B. Pierce about to kick Goal.
The Carlisle Indians played against Yale at Manhattan Field on October 24, 1896.
This image appears in Harper's Weekly vol. 40, no. 2081 (October 1896).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Sixteen Crow students [version 2], 1896](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_072.jpg?itok=uTGpkCtj "Sixteen Crow students [version 2], 1896")
Studio portrait of sixteen students, eleven male students and five female students, with one white man. The caption identifies them as "Pupils from the Crow Agency."
The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image has a caption with the date December 1896.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Sixteen Crow students [version 1], 1896](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73425.jpg?itok=otAfnuEX "Sixteen Crow students [version 1], 1896")
Studio portrait of eleven male students and five female students with one white man. The caption identifies them as being from the Crow nation and provides a date of December 1896.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Odell La Fleur wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Wolfe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bunn Armstrong.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Louisa Provost.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Amy Dolphus and Clara Price.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Newton Pierce (left) and Willie Parker, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 2], 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_101.jpg?itok=4e4ntfH0 "Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 2], 1897")
Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. The students are identified below the image.
This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Pontiac.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Christine Redstone, probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Melinda Porter wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Rose DuVernay wearing a floral corsage or accessory.
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 Christine Redstone and Olive Larch, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ambrose Lewis.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Jonah Penasa [?], c.1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73678.jpg?itok=NfRbtjgM "Jonah Penasa [?], c.1897")
Studio portrait of Jonah Penasa [?] wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of John Webster, Delia Webster, Cynthia Webster, and Lewis Webster.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society