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 an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Previous cataloging has identified at least one of them as Cheyenne.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of three male students in school uniforms, identified as the "Little Bear group."
The caption read: Little Bear Group
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Harvey Townsend and Benjamin Thomas, both wearing school uniforms.
The caption reads: H. Townsend + B. Thomas
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
The caption reads, in part: ...perelt. The portion of the glass plate containing the first part of the student's name is missing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Samuel Townsend wearing school uniform.
The caption reads: Samuel Townsend
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait Oscar Bull Bear (seated) and his younger brother Richard Davis.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students, one wearing a school uniform.
Previous cataloging has identified at least one of the students as being from the Cheyenne Nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students, one wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified young female students wearing white pinafores.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Four Sioux students [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73628.jpg?itok=1T4qWUye "Four Sioux students [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of three female students and one male student.
The copy of this photo in the Anne Ely Album identifies them as Hope Blue Teeth, Cyrus Windy, Jennie Dubray, and Lizzie Dubray.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Joarclores, Arapaho chief [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_096b.jpg?itok=pLEcaWb_ "Joarclores, Arapaho chief [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Joarclores, an Arapaho chief.
Note: The caption for this image identifies the sitter only as an Arapaho chief. A name is provided in the National Anthropological Archives glass plate negative (Joalloras) and in another copy of this image from the Cumberland County Historical Society (13A-14-04) where it is either Joarclores or Joactoras. None of these names may be correct.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Baird wearing a uniform.
Note: This image also contains partial caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Eben Beads.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Seven Crow students [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_bsch038.jpg?itok=xl0z4AEF "Seven Crow students [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of seven Crow students.
The male student in the back left may be George Thomas, and the student in the back right appears to be Charles Fisher. The young woman seated second from the left seems to be Persis Big Hair, and on the far right is Lois Pretty Scalp.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Seven Crow students [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73644.jpg?itok=yoYyJaVJ "Seven Crow students [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of seven Crow students.
The male student in the back left may be George Thomas, and the student in the back right appears to be Charles Fisher. The young woman seated second from the left seems to be Persis Big Hair, and on the far right is Lois Pretty Scalp.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of six unidentified male students in school uniforms.
The caption identifies them as being from the Crow nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jame Black Hawk.
Handwritten caption along side of image probably reads: James Black Hawk.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of six unidentified male students wearing school uniforms.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image identifies them as being from the Crow nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Clay Ainsworth [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_095c.jpg?itok=rTHLsJrs "Clay Ainsworth [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Clay Ainsworth.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society