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 Wiley Morgan.
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 Edward L. Rogers.
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
Studio portrait of George Hazlett.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mark Wolfe.
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 Mary Barada.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Elizabeth Williams (left) and Sarah Kennedy (right).
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 John Bear Robe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Rooks wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Louisa Cornelius (back row, center), Lillie Cornelius (front row, left), and Cora Moore (front row, right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna Morton wearing school uniform.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Chauncy Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe).
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Chauncey Yellowrobe after graduating from Carlisle Military School.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of James Kawaykla.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Detail from 1896 class photo of John Leslie.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Edward Hensley and Myron Moses (standing), one wearing a 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 John C. Norris.
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
![Students working in a Sloyd class [version 2], c.1896](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/10B-06-003.jpg?itok=zc942wZu "Students working in a Sloyd class [version 2], c.1896")
View of young male and female students with a female teacher working in a Sloyd class.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A group portrait of football players from the 1896 team (ball with '96 on it is in photo).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A white female teacher and a female student posed seated at a piano, as if having a music lesson. A label identifies the teacher was "Mrs. Sawyer;" according to school records, Rebecca Sawyer was an assistant music teacher in 1896.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society