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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Studio portrait of Tom Torlino (seated) and George S. Watchman (standing). 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Ada Fox Catcher probaby wearing school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Sowcea Kinery [?] and Samuel Keryte, both wearing school uniforms. Keryte is definitely the student standing at right.

Note: The identification of Kinery is a guess based on interpreting the handwritten caption, and the fact that he arrived on the same day as Keryte. Kinery was 14 at arrival and Keryte was 16. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of George Fire Thunder.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Ada Fox Catcher probably wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Cyrus Windy.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of James B. Garcia.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Henry Ouita (left) and Kise Williams (right).

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Lyman Kennedy wearing partial school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Frank West. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of eighteen female Pueblo students, all wearing school uniforms. A few are holding dolls. In Choate's 1902 Souvenir this is identfied as a portrait of Pueblo girls who arrived in 1884.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of seventeen female students, all wearing school uniforms.

The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image, written on the album page, identifies them as being from the Pueblo nation. 

In another copy of this image, made by Dickinson College from an original owned by Bob Rowe, the description (see Related Images) there is a typed caption that reads "The same Pueblo girls as seen in the photograph above, six months after arrival at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School." The "photograph above" was taken when they entered in August 1884. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire, all wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Pueblo boys. James H. Miller. by his Brother Francis H. Ortiz. Indian Training School. Carlisle, Pennsylvania

This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of ten unidentified female students. All are wearing school uniforms; one, a much younger girl, is wearing a white pinafore over her uniform.

Note: In previous cataloging the handwritten caption says the students are from the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (also known as Timber Yellow Robe) wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire, all wearing school uniforms.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of William Brown and Katie White Bird, both probably wearing school uniforms.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Candelaria Quintana.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of George Thomas.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Susie Bond and Susie Gray.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of James Miller.

Note: This is probably James Y. Miller.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Josie Vetter wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth (left) and Casper Edson (right).

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society