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 James B. Garcia.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Mildred Sikkieh wearing school uniform, holding a straw hat.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Clay Ainsworth.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock (standing at left) and William Morgan (seated at right), both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joseph Schweigman and an unidentified young man.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joseph Schweigman and Frank Conroy, both wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Max Spotted Tail. Sioux boy from Rosebud, Dakota.
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
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 Nancy McIntosh.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Nancy McIntosh
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 Lois Pretty Scalp.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Schweigman.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Joseph Schweigman
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
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: John Dixon.
Dixon was also known as John Dickson.
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 Clarence Powder Face.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Owen Fire and Festus Pelone, both wearing school uniforms and holding straw boater hats.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
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 Hoo-sa-tau-lus [?], an Apache chief.
Note: There is no original caption for this photograph. This identification was provided by an unknown source at the Cumberland County Historical Society.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The printed caption reads: ETADLEUH DOANMOE, KIOWA. Taken prisoner in 1875 and sent to Ft. Marion, Fla.; was released in /1878; spent one year at Hampton Institute, Va.; entered Carlisle 1879. In 1882 married Tone-adle-mah, an educated girl of his own tribe, and reentered to the Indian Territory. Served as Helper in the School an Interpreter. In 1888 was appointed by the Presbyterian Board as a missionary among the Kiowas, but died soon after, having lived an exemplary life and exerted a good influence ence among his associates.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Cyrus, Sioux.
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.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this image: PA-CH1-059c.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Mae Paisano and her brother, Willie H. Paisano, both wearing school uniforms.
Note: Although the school documents consistently use the incorrect spelling "May," family members have indicated that her name was properly spelled "Mae."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Candelaria Quintana.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
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 Esther Miller.
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 Etadleuh Doanmoe.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Etadleuh.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Two unidentified male students in school uniforms.
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