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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School laundry building with a trolley car parked alongside it. Four trolley conductors are standing beside the car.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of thirty-seven women, presumably all female students, wearing large hats, posed on the school grounds in front of the flag pole.
This portrait may have taken as they were gathered to return home (a "home party").
Format: Glass Plate Negative
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
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 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
Studio portrait of Juan Apachese and Carlos Eprico.
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 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
Studio portrait of Herbert Johnson (left) and Amos George (right).
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
Studio portrait of Eleazar Williams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joe B. Luna and Calistro Antonio Lugo.
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 Hattie Williams and Lizzie Williams.
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
![Hawley Pierce [version 1], c.1900](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/00327B%20Hoover.jpg?itok=45-eleig "Hawley Pierce [version 1], c.1900")
Studio portrait of Hawley Pierce.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![School Assembled [version 1], c.1900](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0042.jpg?itok=Uzx2PulS "School Assembled [version 1], c.1900")
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 Libbie Archiquette.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sosipatra Suvoroff and Irene Suvoroff.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Reuben Jones.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Mollie Welsh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Pasquala Anderson and Ida Swallow.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Solomon Webster wearing uniform.
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
Studio portrait of four unidentified male students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society