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 Artie Miller.
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 two unidentified female students.
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
![Six Alaskan students aboard a ship [version 1], 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73570.jpg?itok=jUbkNRry "Six Alaskan students aboard a ship [version 1], 1897")
Six Alaskan students posed on the deck of a ship, presumably taken on their journey to Carlisle. They are (from left to right) Annie Coodlalook, Cooki Glook, Anna Buck, Esenetuck, Tomiclock, and Laublock. All are wearing cloaks with fur-lined hoods.
Although this negative was included among photographer J.N. Choate's images, he could not have been present aboard the ship that brought these students from Alaska. The original photographer is unknown.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benjamin F. Hardison wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mark Hopkins.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Moses Sawtrom wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Isabella Young.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sophia American Horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martha Sickles.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: A. H. Nash.
Albert Henry Nash in a Carlisle sweater.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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 Joseph Schuyler.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nettie Horne, Lottie Horne, and Jacob Horne.
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. They are: Back Row, Left to Right: Gruett, Samuel, Chippewa /Depoe, Robert, Siletz/Whitethunder, Clarence, Sioux, /Roger, Edward, Chippewa, /Brigman, Cornelius, Oneida, /Miller, Mary, Chippewa, /Jones, Frank, Sac and Fox, /Sherrill, William, Cherokee, /Mishler, Charles, Charles,
Second Row: Hill, Lizzie, Sioux, /Red Eagle, Grace, Quapaw, /Buck, Mabel, Sioux; Third Row: Red Kettle, Henry, Sioux, /Owl, Martha, Cherokee, /Kowuni, Annie, Pueblo, /Upshaw, Alexander, Crow, /Seneca, Nancy, Seneca, /Smith, Clark, Klamath, /Smith, Edith M., Tuscarora, /Williams, Julia, Chippewa; Front Row: Smith, Sarah, Oneida, /Shively, Frank S., Crow, /Miller, Olive, Stockbridge, /Wirth, Tenie, Assiniboin, /Mishler, Louis, Chippewa, /Nash, Albert, Winnebago/
This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-101, 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
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 Josephine Janese.
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 Shela Guthrie Brown holding a doll.
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 Cynthia Cooper wearing school uniform.
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