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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![Invincible Society [version 1], 1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73466.jpg?itok=Ewol2B9X "Invincible Society [version 1], 1890")
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
![Seventeen print shop workers [version 1], 1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73642.jpg?itok=G1EAdl6- "Seventeen print shop workers [version 1], 1890")
Studio portrait of seventeen male students, identified as "printer boys."
The National Anthropological Archives has two negatives of this image: NAA 73642 and NAA 73382.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image has the date 1890 in the caption.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified young male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Julia Edwards.
Note: This image also contains caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Colonel Elk Horn.
A handwritten caption along the top of the image probably reads: Colonel Horn.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Ellis (left) and George Ell (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Twelve male Sioux students [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_084.jpg?itok=aCPv7qMj "Twelve male Sioux students [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of twelve male students. The caption says they are "Pine Ridge Sioux" and identifies them as:
Front row, seated: Thomas Black Bear, Alexander Man Above, Charles Smith, Andrew Beard, Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, and Phillip White.
Back row, standing: Samuel C. Deon, James One Star, Howard Slow Bull, Charles Brave, and Willis Black Bear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Ell (left) and Anthony Austin (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms. A handwritten caption identifies them as "Apache girls."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Emily Guitar and Lucy Guitar.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Seventeen print shop workers [version 2], 1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_058d.jpg?itok=e1Ik2JJ0 "Seventeen print shop workers [version 2], 1890")
Studio portrait of seventeen male students, identified as "printer boys."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-058d and CS-CH-084.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Conner.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of nine male students, identified by the caption as being from the Nez Perce nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Sarah Walker [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch010.jpg?itok=vPY2NvWR "Sarah Walker [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Sarah Walker.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Carefelle wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Paul Good Bear (standing) with Thomas W. Potter (seated).
Note: Potter was employed first as a teacher at the school from Oct. 1889 to Jan. 1890, and then as storekeeper from Feb. to Apr. 1890.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
![Louis Caswell and Benjamin Caswell [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_033C.jpg?itok=jC4sKzCu "Louis Caswell and Benjamin Caswell [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Louis Caswell (left) and Benjamin Caswell (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society