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 Herbert Johnson (left) and Amos George (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Campeau.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Football Team [version 2], 1900](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/scis_0016_0.jpg?itok=Kl3bsGYW "Football Team [version 2], 1900")
The printed note reads: Thompson, Redwater, Wheelock, Scott, Warner, Seneca, Miller, Scholder, Pierce, Roberts, Warren, Metoxen, Johnson, Smith, Hudson, Rogers, Sickles.
This image with the caption FOOTBALL TEAM OF 1900 appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).
This image, with the caption FOOTBALL TEAM, also appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.98].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Graduating Class of 1900 [version 2], 1900](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/scis_0015_0.jpg?itok=vkSjL30- "Graduating Class of 1900 [version 2], 1900")
The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF 1900.
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 Eleazar Williams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Pupils bedroom
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Jos. Payawesa Sr. & Jr.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed note reads: Photographed by J. N. CHOATE, No. 21 W. Main St., Carlisle.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle PA
Stereoscopic card showing Richard Henry Pratt and his family outside in the snow, in front of the Superintendent's Quarters at the Carlisle Indian School.
Format: Stereograph
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Electa Hill.
Note: It is not known if this is Electa C. Hill or Electa D. Hill, who both attended the school at the same time and were of similar age.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note reads: C. Dillon
View of Charles Dillon in his Carlisle football uniform around 1900.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Solomon Webster wearing uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mollie Welsh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Maud Sampson
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: CARLYLE COLLEGE
First Indian College for Women
Aunt Pearl
Note: Image donated by Claudia Washburn.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Reuben Jones.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joseph Murdock, likely taken during one of his times on outing in Columbia County, near Bloomsburg, PA, between 1900 and 1903.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Juan Apachese and Carlos Eprico.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student wearing a hat.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David Abraham and an unidentified male student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David Abraham.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Felicita Romero.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Wallace Denny wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Pike.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Hawley Pierce [version 2], c.1900](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/LS-D096.jpg?itok=SGF9M9jg "Hawley Pierce [version 2], c.1900")
Studio portrait of Hawley Pierce.
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a glass plate negative of this image (00327B).
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Libbie Archiquette.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society