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 George Ladeaux.
Note: Previous cataloging indicated the student's name in the hand written caption is George Laden.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Roan, Raymond Buffalo Meat, and Thomas Perrier.
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
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Pupils bedroom
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten label on the slide reads: School Assembled
This image is similar to other earlier photographs where the entire student body was gathered on the school grounds and arranged in a careful formation.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of King Nephew and Solomon Scrogg.
Note: There is a listing of King Nephew enrolling at the school in 1897, but the only mentions of him have been found in school ledgers. However, we believe he may also be known as Kingsley Nephew, the person listed as the "home address" of Seneca students Della John, Lyford John, and Oliver John, who each enrolled several years after King Nephew's departure.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of Charles Dillon in football uniform posing in a field.
Note: CCHS has two copies of this image 15-09-01 and 00318C#01.
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 Herbert Johnson (left) and Amos George (right).
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
Studio portrait of four unidentified male students.
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
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 Libbie Archiquette.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Katie Creager (left) and Seichu Atsye (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the rear of the Industrial Workshop Building, with a few male students in the foreground.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of seventeen male students in uniform posed with one white man.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed standing at ironing boards in a room with a large cast iron stove in the center, holding irons, and drying racks.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed working at tables in the wagonmaking shop.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of five female students and two male students (in uniform) posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging for this image identifies them as "teachers," so they may be student teachers.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Large group of male students lined up both in front of and behind the school's fire engine on a path with the Girls' Quarters in the background. Female students are standing on the lawn and on the porches of the building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male and female students posed in a wood working classroom with a white female teacher. On the blackboard at the back of the room the word "Sloyd" is visible, indicating that this was a Sloyd classroom.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students in uniform, posed in a row.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
An empty schoolroom with a teacher's desk and students desks. This is identified in a label as a "Normal School Room."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
