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 Anna McMillon.
Note: Although the caption identifies her as Mary McMillan there is no student by that name.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lapolio Cheago probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nellie Valenzuela wearing school uniform.
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
![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 William Howling Wolf (right) and Lewis Whiteshield (left). Whiteshield is wearing a school uniform.
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 John Jassan.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-048f and PA-CH3-031i.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: ESKIMO GROUP. AS THEY ENTERED CARLISLE IN 1897. AS THEY APPEAR IN SCHOOL DRESS.
They are Annie Coodlalook, Cooki Glook, Anna Buck, Esenetuck, Tomiclock, and Laublock. All are wearing cloaks with fur-lined hoods.
This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of David Johnson and Mr. Gray.
Note: Mr. Gray may be William B. Gray who was the school's dairyman and later farmer.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Juanita Bibancos.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two visiting chiefs with two female students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Pontiac.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Louisa Ance, Annie Carl, and Jane Mark.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jane Mark (on left) and Josie Mark (on right).
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 Louis McDonald.
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
![Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 1], 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0032.jpg?itok=h0B6uRIQ "Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 1], 1897")
Studio portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students.
The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF ’97. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.
Samuel Gruett, Chippewa. Rob’t. Depoe, Siletz. Clarence Whitethunder, Sioux. Edw. Rogers, Chippewa. Brigman Cornelius, Oneida. Mary Miller, Chippewa. Frank Jones, Sac & Fox. Wm Sherrill, Cherokee. Chas. Mishler, Chippewa. Henry Redkettle, Sioux. Lizzie Hill, Sioux. Grace Redeagle, Quapaw. Mabel Buck, Sioux. Julia Williams, Chippewa. Martha Owl, Cherokee. Annie Kowuni, Pueblo. Alexander Upshaw, Crow. Nancy Seneca, Seneca. Clark Smith, Klamath. Edith M. Smith, Tuscarora. Albert Nash, Winnebago. Sara Smith, Oneida. Frank S. Shively, Crow. Olive Miller, Stockbridge. Christine Wirth, Assinaboine. Louis Mishler, Chippewa.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has a copy of this image: 11-A-07.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Newton Pierce (left) and Willie Parker, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Edith Pierce (left) and Nettie Horne (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Schuyler.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![American Horse [?] and Richard Henry Pratt with a large group of students [version 1], 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74361.jpg?itok=p5illfFf "American Horse [?] and Richard Henry Pratt with a large group of students [version 1], 1897")
Portrait of a visting chief shaking hands with Richard Henry Pratt posed on the school grounds with a group of thirteen female students and seventeen male students. A white woman, probably a teacher, with a parasol or umbrella can be seen in the background near a school building.
Previous cataloging, presumably interpreting caption information scratched on the plate, indicates the chief is American Horse and the date is 1897.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution