Images

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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A large group of female students posed on the steps of a school building with one older white woman. Some students in the front row hold a banner that says "YWCA."

A family member has identified Pelagie Nash near the back just to the left of the right-side column, with the furthest back student standing behind her with her hand on her right shoulder.

The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a print of this image (13-15-01).

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

A large group of female students posed on the steps of a school building with one older white woman. Some students in the front row hold a banner that says "YWCA."

A family member has identified Pelagie Nash near the back just to the left of the right-side column, with the furthest back student standing behind her with her hand on her right shoulder.

The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a print of this image (13-15-01). 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Male students in uniform, including what appears to be a small group of the school band at left, posed at the edge of the school grounds in front of a fence. The handwritten caption states "showing farm buildings in the distance." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A large group of female students posed on the steps of a school building with one older white woman. Some students in the front row hold a banner that says "YWCA."

A family member has identified Pelagie Nash near the back just to the left of the right-side column, with the furthest back student standing behind her with her hand on her right shoulder.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of a snowy campus with a man near the flag pole on a path cleared from the Girls' Quarters to the pole. The Girls' Quarters is in the background. 

The image is somewhat damaged. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Four female teachers seated on the grass on the school grounds. One is holding open some sheet music. They are identified on the reverse of the photo as Anne H. Stewart, Jessie L. McIntire, Annie B. Moore and Jeannette Senseney. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the school grounds showing the teachers' quarters and the band stand. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A large group of male and female students, some in uniform, posed with at least two white women, presumably teachers, on the steps of a school building. One male student is inside the building looking out a window. 

A family member has identified Violetta Nash being seated near the front on the right side, leaning back and wearing a plaid blouse under a black pea coat.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing glasses.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio photograph of an unidentified male student. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Two male students wearing uniforms seated at either side of a table in a student's bedroom. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Photograph of a photograph of former student Stephen Reuben in a feathered headdress with a horse. The photograph is labeled: "Stephen Reuben, Carlisle Student, 4th of July Celebration, Spalding Idaho." 

Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

Several younger male students wearing uniforms posed reading newspapers at a table with many piles of newspapers--the Reading Room in the Small Boys' Quarters.

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A large group of male students, most not in uniforms, posed, with one white man in the center of the bottom row, standing and sitting in front of one of the school buildings. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as members of the YMCA.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

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

View of the school's Gymnasium.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of school's Gymnasium building. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Maud Snyder.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society