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 Sun Boy, a Kiowa chief.
The school newspaper documents a visit by Sun Boy to the school in January 1885, but this photo appears to be from an earlier visit.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portarit of Baptiste Bayhylle and his son, Louis Bayhylle. Louis is wearing a school uniform. There apperas to be an illegible caption written along the top of the image.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Alexander McNac.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 Geoge Baker wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Louis Bighorse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benjamin Marshall.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Daniel Milk.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Otto Zotoum wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 Martha Moore and Ella Moore with their father, John R. Moore.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ernie Black.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
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
Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth and three unidentified male students, all in school uniforms. Woolworth is standing at the left in the back row. Based on other photographs, Theodore North may be the student sitting in the right of the front row.
There is an almost undecipherable handwritten caption along the side of the image, which reads in part: Arnold.
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 George Baker wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 Lizzie Glode probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Peliza, Paul Big Horse, and Edward Chouteau, all wearing school uniforms.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-037a, CS-CH-056, and CS-CH-075.1-.2.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Phillips White (Phillips Bob Tail).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joshua Given [?], Luther Standing Bear, and an unidentified male student, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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