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 Clarence White Thunder.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lillian Complainville.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Juanada Parker and Tawney Owl, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Williams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nancy Tadgahsong, probably wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ellen Thomas.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Rea Funk probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Bear Robe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Barada.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Margaret La Mere probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of male students posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds. Some in the first row have musical instruments. There is a banner at the top of the group which reads "Standard/ En Avant." The caption identifies them as the student group "Standards of '96."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alice Baker (left) and Hattie Baker (right) wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of a group of male students in uniforms posed holding uniforms in front of an archway. The are probably in front of the gymnasium. The band leader is standing in the center of the group. The handwritten caption reads "Band of '96."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 10-B-16 and PA-CH1-058a.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Wiley Morgan.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Kawaykla.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Jones.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Edward L. Rogers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Solomon Miller.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Asa Wall and Oliver Wall, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John S. Grant (probably standing at left) wearing school uniform and Lewis Webster (probably seated at right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Crouse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Rogers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Though previously unidentified, a researcher has offered the following details about this photo. The sitters are all Comanche from Oklahoma. Pictured is Red Elk (seated left), Isatia (sometimes spelled Eshiti or called White Eagle, standing left), Chief Quanah Parker, Harold Parker (student and oldest son of Quanah Parker). The women pictured are Laura Parker (student and daughter of Quanah Parker), and Tonarcy (wife of Quanah Parker). The photo dates from January 1896. This photo is corroborated by the "Visiting Chiefs" article in the January 31, 1896 issue of "The Indian Helper." Also, through additional research, there are articles that appear in newspapers in various states in February 1896 about Quanah Parker, his wife, and others visiting Carlisle and Washington DC.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
School band with instruments posed in rows on the school grounds with conductor Dennison Wheelock in center.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of thirteen male students, ten wearing baseball uniforms with "Union Reserve" on the front, three not in uniforms. Some are holding bats and there is a catcher's mitt and face mask next to the student posed in front.
The Union Reserves were one of the school's many baseball teams. They may have been made up of some of the "small boys."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution