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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![Twelve male Piegan students [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_029A.jpg?itok=0r7OSPQm "Twelve male Piegan students [version 2], c.1891")
Studio portrait of twelve male students. The caption identifies them as from the Piegan nation and as having entered on March 26, 1890.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Guardipee wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Gruett.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of one female and ten male students, the graduating class of 1891.
They are, back row, left to right: Robert Matthews (seated), Martin Archiquette, John Tyler, William Froman, Charles E. Dagenett; middle row, seated, left to right: Henry Standing Bear, Etta Robertson, Levi St. Cyr, Harry Kohpay; front row, seated, Josiah Powlas and Yamie Leeds.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 18.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-024 and 15-22-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Katie Grindrod.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anni Medicine wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Albert White Wolf [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_052c.jpg?itok=QX37XIev "Albert White Wolf [version 2], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Albert White Wolf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_020a.jpg?itok=ogr-6o1K "Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 2], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Melinda Metoxen.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Crazy Bull (seated in center), Henry Red Kettle, and Shield Thunder Bull. All are wearing school uniforms.
Note: The identification of Henry Red Kettle and Shield Thunder Bull is tentative.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Peter Nahmais [?], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_011c.jpg?itok=Nq12HDcI "Peter Nahmais [?], c.1891")
Studio portrait of a male student who is probably Peter Nahmais.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of student Charles Smith (standing at left) with three visiting chiefs and one male student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Sarah Flynn wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Twenty-one Crow students [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_079.jpg?itok=6hdgoRCp "Twenty-one Crow students [version 2], c.1891")
Portrait of twenty-one students--eleven male and ten female students--posed on the steps outside a brick building, probably on the school grounds. The caption says that they are "Crows from the Crow Agency, Montana, who entered Carlisle Indian School in 1890."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-079 and 13-21-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Twelve male Piegan students [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73656.jpg?itok=zXcSE8v_ "Twelve male Piegan students [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of twelve male students. Caption information for the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image states that they are from the Piegan nation and entered on March 26, 1890.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Belknap Fox.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Chester Smith.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Kitewmi and Hugh Soucea.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joseph Spaniard (Joe Spanish) wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Jane Mark.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Harry Hutchinson, John Baptiste, and David Turkey, all probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alice Long Pole.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Julia Bent [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74382.jpg?itok=e0V-5xmb "Julia Bent [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Julia Bent, probably wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Louis Caswell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio of portrait of Jessie Bitter.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society