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 Martha Napawat probably wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Susie Nachekea (standing at left), Charles Istee (standing at rear), and Gail Marko (seated at right). 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of John W. Pipe and Philip B. Mann.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of William Morgan and Rose Howell. Morgan is wearing a school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Charles Istee, Humphrey Escharzay, and Thomas Pelcoya [?]; two are wearing school uniforms.

Note: The identification of Thomas Pelcoya is preliminary. Previously cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the name "Thomas," and Thomas Pelcoya is the only male Apache student who attended at the same time as the other sitters in the image.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Benajah Miles wearing school uniform. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of George Means (seated at left), Nicholas Ruleau (standing at rear), and Eugene Means [?] (seated at right). 

Note: There is no record for a student named Eugene Means. This name in the handwritten caption is very hard to read. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Frank Lock.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Yamie Leeds.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Thomas Kose.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of William Morgan and Rose Howell. Morgan is wearing a school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez (seated right), Caleb Kechjolay (seated left), Beatrice Morton (standing right), and Maggie Iahanetha (standing left), all wearing school uniforms.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of George Ladeaux wearing a band uniform and holding a brass horn instrument.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Yamie Leeds.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image. One identifies them as Apache students and the other as specifically San Carlos Apaches. Records document fewer than fifteen male San Carlos Apache students ever attending the school, and they were not all there at the same time.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of staff member Philip Norman. Norman served as band leader and this is said to be his band leader uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Twenty-five members of the school band, posed on the steps of the Large Boys' Quarters, holding their instruments. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

View of the Large Boys' Quarters, with students on the porches and in front of the building, probably taken in the winter. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings.

The Cumber County Historical Society's print of this image identifies the group as the Republic Debating Society. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of a large group of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings. 

The Cumberland County Historial Society has a print of this image which identifies the group as the Union Debating Society. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings.

The Cumber County Historical Society's print of this image identifies the group as the Republic Debating Society. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of seven unidentified male students and ten unidentified female students, all wearing school uniforms, posed outside on the school grounds. 

Previous cataloging interprets the caption as saying they are from the Pine Ridge reservation. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image. One identifies them as Apache students and the other as specifically San Carlos Apaches. 

Records document fewer than fifteen male San Carlos Apache students ever attending the school, and they were not all there at the same time. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Eunice Suison, infant daughter of Indian School student Annette Suison. Eunice was one of the children known as the "Apache babies"

The Cumberland County Historical Society dates this image to February 1888.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society