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 Oliver Exendine in a uniform holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Willard Gansworth in a uniform holding a flute.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Thomas Griffin in a uniform holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Raleigh (Rollo) Jackson in a uniform holding a trombone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
A composite collection of individual portraits of the school band's members, each posed with their instrument. The only person identified is the Band Master, James Riley Wheelock.
Note: The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center has prints of the photographs of the individual students with identification. These are now posted on this site.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Twelve female students wearing dark uniforms with "1903" on the front and baseball-style caps. They are posed in a semicircle, the three in the middle with their feet on a basketball with "1903" written on it.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alva Johnson in a uniform and holding a bass clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of James King in a uniform holding a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Joseph Ruiz in a unform holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Sewing instructor Elizabeth Searight posed outdoors with twelve female students wearing school uniforms.
Searight worked at the school from roughtly 1901 to 1915.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hastings Robertson wearing a uniform and holding an English horn.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of William Paul in a uniform with an oboe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Louis Paul in a uniform holding an oboe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Chiltoski Nick in a uniform holding a French horn.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Pedro Enrique Musignac (identified here as Peter Musique) in a uniform holding a piccolo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Lawrence Mitchell in a uniform holding a baritone saxophone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Photograph of a photograph of five male students in track clothing, posed outside, holding a banner from the "University of Pennsylvania 9th Annual Relay Races, 1903" with the participating teams listed.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles McKee in a uniform holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Photograph of a studio portrait of a large group of male and female students. At least one person, a male student, appears to have been added to the photograph after it was taken. The handwritten caption seems to say "Class 1903."
The National Anthropological Archives has two versions of this image, both photographs of a photograph: NAA 73661; Photo Lot 81-12 06843500 and NAA 73663; Photo Lot 81-12 06843700.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Ben Mashunkashey in a uniform, holding a snare drum and drumsticks.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Henry Markistum in a uniform and holding a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of William Mahone in a uniform and holding a trumpet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Group portrait of Richard Henry Pratt with a large number of male and female Native Americans and a few white people. There are some children in the group.
Among the group is former student White Buffalo, and it seems likely this is a group of former students who returned, along with Pratt, to attend the school's commencement in 1903, as described in this issue of The Red Man and Helper: RedMan-Helper_v03n26-n27.pdf (dickinson.edu)
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio photograph of the graduating class of 1903. They are identified as: 1. Tatiyopa, Henry, 2. Kimball, John, 3. Ezhuna, Joseph, 4. Doxtator, Commodore, 5. Doxtator, Alice, 6. Brown, Lillian, 7. Hill, Amy, 8. Bishop, Frank, 9. Brushel, Samuel, 10. Callsen, Minnie, 11. Callsen, Katie, 12. Greely, Mabel, 13. Charles, Clarinda, 14. Knudsen, Elizabeth, 15. Costo, Martin, 16. Davis, Oscar, 17. Roubideau, Lizette, 18. Welch, Mollie, 19. King, Celinda, 20. Geisdorff, Charlotte, 21. George, Amos, 22. Griffin, Thomas A., 23. Johnson, Minnie, 24. King, James, 25. Londrosh, John, 26. Rayos, Susie, 27. American Horse, Sophia, 28. Miller, John M., 29. Griffin, Ida, 30. Peters, Bessie, 31. Snyder, Maud, 32. Dolphus, Amy, 33. Wilber, Earney, 34. Pradt, George, 35. Rabbitt, Philip, 36. Ruiz, Joseph, 37. Skye, Emma G., 38. Corbin, Sarah, 39. Tibbetts, Eugene, 40. Cornelius, Lillian, 41. Warren, Sophia, 42. Sturm, Nannie, 43. Jamison, Bertha, 44. Weshinawatok, William, 45. Williams, Lizzie, 46. Williams, Elizabeth, 47. Yarlott, Frank
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of a large group of seated and standing male and female students, identified as the graduating class of 1904. They are identified in a label attached below the photo.
The label notes that Martha Enos was part of the graduating class but not included in the photo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society