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 Otto Zotoum wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Mason Pratt (seated at left), Charles Kihega (standing), Samuel Townsend (seated at right), and Benjamin Marshall (seated in center). The three students are wearing school uniforms.
Note: Mason Pratt was the son of Richard Henry Pratt.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of seven unidentified male students and five unidentified female students with a white woman, presumably a teacher.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
This caption reads: TOM TORLINO – NAVAJO. AS HE ENTERED THE SCHOOL IN 1882. AS HE APPEARED THREE YEARS LATER.
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 ten unidentified male students wearing school uniforms.
Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Omaha nation.
Twenty male Omaha students arrived in August of 1882. A portrait of ten of them was taken and identified as such (see Related Images), so it is possible that this group is the other ten students who arrived at that time.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Thomas Wistar dressed in school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Frank Lock.
This appears to be a photograph of a photograph and so the original may not have been taken at Carlisle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Peter Charko.
The caption reads: Peter Cherco
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
The caption reads: Rob [?] and [illegible]
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of a Native American man, probably a visiting chief, with two male students in school uniforms.
Previous cataloging interprets part of the handwritten caption as being the name "Bruer." There are no students with that name.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of six unidentified young male students in school uniforms posed around a studio prop of a window with teacher Miss Shiverick.
School records show Harriet Hyde Shiverick was Matron of Boys from 1881 to 1882.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Tom Torlino wearing native dress and ornaments.
Note: This is probably a photograph taken of the print of the Torlino photograph
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has four copies of this image: PA-CH2-004a, BS-CH-008, US-50a, and 12-26-03.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth.
The caption reads: Arnold
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of a student identified as Alfred.
The caption reads: Alfred - 3
This is most likely Alfred Brown (Cheyenne, 1879-1883), but there is also a small chance it could be a student named Alfred who attended Carlisle a little later in the 1880s or 1890s.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Adam McCarty wearing school uniform.
The caption reads: Adam McCarthy
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Adam McCarty wearing school uniform.
The caption reads: Adam McCarty
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth and Theodore North, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Left Hand (seated at left), Carl Matches (standing in center), and Short Teeth (seated at right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Antoinette Williams (left) and Nellie Carey (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Emily Ross and Ella Ross, both wearing white pinafores over dark dresses.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Michael Burns.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of eleven female students in school uniforms. Caption information states they are from the Omaha nation and entered in 1882. If that is accurate, then they are probably Alice Springer, Jennie Mitchell, Mary Tyndall, Ettie Tyndall, Mary Hewitt, Etta Webster, Elsie Springer, Lettie Esau, Alice Fremont, Fannie Merrick, and Mamie Springer.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William B. Peery wearing school uniform.
Note: In the copy of this image at the American Philosophical Society the student is identified as "William Peary, Peoria."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Justine La Framboise.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portait of Martha Moore and Ella Moore with their father, John R. Moore.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution