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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Six male students posed in the carpenter shop.
This image, with the caption SAWING AND PLANING, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.31].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Six male and one female student posed as if working in the school's mailing department.
This image, with the caption MAIL DEPARTMENT, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.27].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View of the central school campus.
This image, with the caption BAND STAND, DINING HALL, TEACHERS' QUARTERS, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 12].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
This image with the caption CAMPUS, OFFICE, AND SCHOOL BUILDINGS appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.11].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
View looking down on the school grounds where male and female students are assembled in rows.
This image, with the caption CAMPUS AND STUDENT BODY, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p.10].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: COLONEL PRATT.
This image appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 7].
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Calistro Antonio Lugo wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sherman Chadlesome.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nikefer Shoushick.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Cusick.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: Band Stand and Girls Quarters, Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.
The handwritten note on the front reads: Juliette Smith Carlisle Pa
The postcard is addressed to Marba Marlin in Roxbourgh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Format: Postcard (Commercial)
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Ephriam Alexander in traditional clothing, including fur coat and fur-trimmed boots.
Note: School administrative documents consistently use the spelling "Ephriam," but his name is spelled "Ephraim" in several articles in the school newspapers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Caroline Helms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Salem Moses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jonas Jackson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James E. Johnson wearing football clothing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Campeau.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Browndog wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Rose La Forge, Katie Helen Adams, Charlotte Geisdorff and three unidentified young women.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Jollie in a uniform holding a sousaphone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Wizi, Thomas Saul, and Alfred Saul. All are wearing dark-colored turtleneck sweaters and dark blazers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The poster reads: COMING! THE CARLISLE INDIAN BASE BALL CLUB
PRESENTING PRINCESS HIAWATHA CHAMPION LADY PITCHER AND A BASE BALL GAME AT NIGHT.
Team photo of the Carlisle Indian Baseball club with the team in their Carlisle uniforms.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Nikefer Shoushick.
Inscription on back reads, "to Viola Cooper, Nikifer Shouchuk. Remember your friend, I alway remember you, Sept. 10, 1905."
Shoushick attended the school from 1901 until 1904. This photo must have been given to Cooper after his departure.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 13-25-04 and 14A-07-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lillie Cornelius.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Frank Yarlot & George Pradt. School friends of Mothers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections