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 two unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Laban Locojim [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_082c.jpg?itok=GyNMIucV "Laban Locojim [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Laban Locojim wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
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
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 John Kitson wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students, each holding a hat.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Sowcea Kinery [?] and Samuel Keryte [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73963.jpg?itok=FdZhVEf7 "Sowcea Kinery [?] and Samuel Keryte [version 1], c.1885")
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 two unidentified male students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Phillp [?], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74112.jpg?itok=p15CWezu "Phillp [?], c.1885")
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a uniform, probably a band uniform.
Note: The handwritten caption is difficult to read. The first name appears to be "Phillip."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74193.jpg?itok=bx4nQyzH "Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire [version 1], c.1885")
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 two unidentified male students, each holding a hat.
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 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 three unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Carlisle Indian School student body around 1885, with the Superintendent's House in background.
Dickinson College has another copy of this image cataloged as CIS-P-0078.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of four unidentified male students, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Tom Torlino [version #1], 1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0075.jpg?itok=O70pa1y6 "Tom Torlino [version #1], 1885")
Studio portrait of Tom Torlino.
The reverse side includes a printed list of photographs for sale by John N. Choate.
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has four copies of this print: PA-CH2-004b, 12-26-04, BS-CH-012, and US-50b.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of three unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Josie Vetter [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_009b.jpg?itok=dO0AeUXx "Josie Vetter [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Josie Vetter wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
![Arnold Woolworth and Casper Edson [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_077a.jpg?itok=vwhgfaBb "Arnold Woolworth and Casper Edson [version 2], c.1885")
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
Studio portrait of three unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution