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 Frank Jones.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Root.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Crouse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Luzenia Tibbetts, Fred Tibbetts, and Eugene Tibbetts, two of whom are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Emanuel Powless (left) and Wallace Denny (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
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 Alice Baker (left) and Hattie Baker (right) wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of eleven young male students.
The Cumberland County Historical Society identifies the sitters as: Standing, back row: George Quinn, Alpheus Powlas, Phineas Wheelock, George Clark, and Harry Marshall; sitting, front row: Asa Wall, Thomas Griffin, Ray Funk, Joe Libby, Healy Wolfe, and Levi Willis.
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 Wiley Morgan.
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 Lottie Horne (left) and Nancy O. Cornelius (right).
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 Margaret La Mere probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Clarence White Thunder.
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
![Mattie High Wolf [?], Mary Cut Foot, and Mary Barry, c.1896](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_047h.jpg?itok=K3D75wCZ "Mattie High Wolf [?], Mary Cut Foot, and Mary Barry, c.1896")
Studio portrait of Mattie High Wolf [?], Mary Cut Foot, and Mary Barry.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Carefelle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Abel Cannot.
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 Lillian Complainville.
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
![Students working in a Sloyd class [version 1], c.1896](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/73665.jpg?itok=t7m7e6rx "Students working in a Sloyd class [version 1], c.1896")
View of young male and female students with a female teacher working in a Sloyd class.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution