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 Frederick Dangerous Eagle wearing school uniform. 

A handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: Fred D. Eagle, March 1889.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Frederick Dangerous Eagle wearing school uniform. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of three male students, two in uniform, with a white man with a large handlebar mustache. The caption identifies the man as J.M. Woodburne. The school paper notes that Dr. Woodburne "of the Rosebud Agency" visited the school in March of 1889. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Burdett Tsis-nah and Giles Lancy, one wearing school uniform.

Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes a date of March 1879. However, that date cannot be correct. Based on the students' enrollment dates, it is more likely the date is March 1889. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of seventeen unidentified male students and three unidentified female students. The caption identifies them as Miss Seabrook's class and provides a date of June 1889. 

School records show Alice M. Seabrook was a teacher at the school from 1885 to 1889. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of five unidentified male students and four unidentified female students.

Cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image identifies the students as from the Chippewa nation and the date of the image as August 31, 1889. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Studio portrait of five unidentified male students and four unidentified female students. 

Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Chippewa nation and provides a date of August 31, 1889 for the image. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Nina Carlisle. 

Note: Information supplied by NAA for the image provides a date of November 1882. However, Nina was not at the school until 1889 and another image apparently taken on the same day was dated November 1889, so we believe that is also the date of this image.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Nina Carlisle.

Note: A faint handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Nina Carlisle Nov. 1889." 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Minnie Finley. 

Note: This image also contains partial caption information for another photograph.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of twelve young male students, all in school uniforms. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as "Pueblo and other Indian students." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of two unidentified male students wearing uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of male students, some holding instruments, with a white man in the center of the bottom row. They are posed on the front steps of a building on the school grounds. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image states that this is the student group Invincible Society, 1890.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of three unidentified male students.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Chapo Geronimo and an unidentified young man, both with decorative beaded canes. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Annie Gesis.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Clay Domieah. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Jessie Bitter. 

This image also contains partial caption information for other photographs.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Margaret Yates.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Lydia Gardner.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The Mishler family sits for a portrait around 1890. Two members of the Mishler family, Louis Jr. and Charles, would attend the Carlisle Indian School.

Standing, left to right: Charles Mishler, Louis Mishler Jr.

Sitting, left to right: Louis Mishler Sr., [unidentified], Margaret McCarthy Mishler

This image was digitized from the private collection of Pat Monroe, descendant of Louis Mishler.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Private Collection

Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution