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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View of the Small Boys' Quarters on the school grounds.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-081a and PA-CH2-085b.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Students lined up along the road in front of the dining hall, as if in a parade. There are three wagons with horses, students in uniform, including some with instruments. There are two people leading the group, one in full feather headdress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the Dining Hall building. The caption identifies it as the "New Dining Hall." This building was built to replace the original building used as the dining hall when the school opened in 1879.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of male studens in uniform practicing drilling on the grounds in front of the Large Boys' Quarters.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Photograph of a photograph (tacked to a wooden surface) of students on parade on the school grounds. It is a large group of male students, in a formation of rows, some holding flags, with the band in front, and a student holding an American flag in the lead. Visible in the background are the Hospital, the Disciplinarian's Quarters, and the Small Boys' Quarters.
There are currently no known prints of this photograph.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Formation of students on the northeastern end of the school grounds, near the enclosing fence with a farm in the distance. They are all male students in uniform, in rows with the band in the front. The location seems to be roughly where the athletic field was later laid out, to the east of the industrial workshops.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of five male students, identified as (L to R): Percy Zadoka, Frank Everett, John Tatum, Harry Shirley, and Hortie Stevens.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Hope Blue Teeth, Cyrus Windy, Jennie Dubray, and Lizzie Dubray.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
View of the dining hall at the school, all tables filled by students. Male and female students are seated on opposite sides of the tables. There are a few adult white people standing at right.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the campus grounds with the band stand and people, possibly visitors.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A carriage, presumably one made by the students, in front of the band stand on the school grounds.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Male students, one standing in front behind a desk, several others in the front seated, with rows of chairs with seated students facing them, posed at a meeting of one of the debating societies.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The girls' quarters with female students on the porches, with the bandstand at right and the hospital building visible between them.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two men, seated in the center, wearing hats and white scarves, probably visitors, with five male students (one wearing a uniform), and a young girl.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
White instructor in center, male students working at benches in the harness making shop.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-089c and BS-CH-046.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Students in the shoe shop with white instructor standing in rear of the room.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-087e and BS-CH-048.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of nineteen students, some in native clothing, probably taken upon arrival on the school grounds. In the back row at the far right is a male student in school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Four images of students and staff in the printing office.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of five male students.
There is a copy of this image at the Army Heritage Education Center in which the sitters are identified as (L to R): Percy Zadoka, Frank Everett, John Tatum, Harry Shirley, and Hortie Stevens.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Four identified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Students working in the print shop.
Note: NAA 73251 (see Related Images) shows the left side of the print shop. NAA 73577 (see Related Images) shows the right side of the print shop. In this image prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop.
This image, with the caption Printing Office - Interior, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 24].
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Students working in the print shop.
Note: This image shows the right side of the print shop. NAA 73251 (see Related Images) shows the left side of the print shop. In NAA 73243 (see Related Images) prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Students working in the print shop.
Note: This image shows the left side of the print shop. NAA 73577 (see Related Images) shows the right side of the print shop. In NAA 73243 (see Related Images) prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students and three unidentified female students. The seated male student has been identified as Lot Eyelash.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (back row, left to right): Harriet Kyocea, Lydia Harrington, Louie Cornelius, Katie White Bird, and Julia Logan; (front row, left to right): Alice Long Pole, Jennie Black, Nellie Aspenall, and Jennie Conners.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution