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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The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Maud Sampson
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Frank Campeau.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Juan B. Vavages and Thomas Kenay.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Roan, Raymond Buffalo Meat, and Thomas Perrier.
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
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 David Abraham and an unidentified male student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Angeline View.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-071g and 14A-10-02.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![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 David Abraham.
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 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
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 Nannie Sturm and Ella Sturm.
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 an unidentified female student wearing a hat.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Jos. Payawesa Sr. & Jr.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
![Graduating Class of 1900 [version 1], 1900](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/11-A-10.jpg?itok=rFXCtT56 "Graduating Class of 1900 [version 1], 1900")
Posed studio photograph of the graduating class of 1900. They are identified as: 1. Abraham, David, 2. Allen, John, 3. Silverheels, Kittie, 4. Anderson, Pasquala, 5. Harris, Fannie, 6. Beale, Frank, 7. Lane, Constance, 8. Corson, Charles, 9. McCarthy, Alice, 10. Wolfe, Mary, 11. Horn, Jacob, 12. Jones, Guy, 13. Clarke, Amelia, 14. Poodry, Rose, 15. Lufkins, John, 16. Barada, Mary, 17. Miller, Artie, 18. Murdock, Wesson, 19. Kennedy, Sarah, 20. Pierce, Nettie, 21. Roberts, Charles, 22. Scholder, Joseph, 23. Seneca, Isaac, 24. Ryan, Mamie, 25. Doctor, Daisy, 26. Teeple, John, 27. Teeple, Frank, 28. Smith, Eliza, 29. Warren, John B., 30. Welch, George, 31. Turkey, Jennie, 32. Ferris, Lillian, 33. Yupe, Susie, 34. Pierce, Bertha, 35. Muscoe, George, 36. Isaacs, Abram, 37. Cornelius, Nancy O.
Note: Although Eliza Smith's name is on the label for this photograph, the number next to her is not written next to anyone in the photograph. Other documentation also indicates that she actually graduated in 1899.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of August Kensler, who served as quartermaster and storekeeper at the school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Gymnasium Building [version 1], c. 1901](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/00331B%231.jpg?itok=UhzMidX2 "Gymnasium Building [version 1], c. 1901")
View of the school's Gymnasium.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Gymnasium Building [version 2], c. 1901](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/LS-D084.jpg?itok=CcHn2Dmx "Gymnasium Building [version 2], c. 1901")
View of school's Gymnasium building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![James Browndog [version 2], c.1901](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/0321.f.0018_alt.jpg?itok=F7Ufgn-C "James Browndog [version 2], c.1901")
Studio portrait of James Browndog around 1901.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Portrait of seventeen unidentified male students and eleven unidentified female students with two white men and one white women posed outside on the school grounds.
Previous cataloging describes the caption as saying that these are students from New York and the date is 1901.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two female students around 1901.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections