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 Electa Schanandore.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Music class with teacher Annie Moore [version 2], 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_071.jpg?itok=jgZTHJKY "Music class with teacher Annie Moore [version 2], 1891")
Studio portrait of twenty people: one male student, eighteen female students, and one teacher. The caption identifies this as "Music Class, 1891." The NAA copy of this image identifies the teacher as Miss Moore. School records show the music teacher was Annie Moore.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Music class with teacher Annie Moore [version 1], 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73278.jpg?itok=G5mRs78A "Music class with teacher Annie Moore [version 1], 1891")
Studio portrait of twenty people: one male student, eighteen female students, and one teacher. The caption identifies the group of "Miss Moore with her music class." School records show Annie Moore was the music teacher at that time. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of the image dates it to 1891.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Anni Medicine wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74346.jpg?itok=76RKcfeM "Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Tall Chief (Osage) with three male students.
Tall Chief is also in the group of Osage chiefs in PA-CH1-075b and on his own in PA-CH2-005b.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Melinda Metoxen.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Allen Yuzos.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of fourteen male students, identified in the caption as "Pueblo group, 1891."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Thirteen male Osage students [version 2], 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_063a.jpg?itok=1GJKPjN- "Thirteen male Osage students [version 2], 1891")
Studio photo of thirteen male students, identified in the caption as being "Osage group, 1891.
A researcher at the Cumberland County Historical Society identified as the students as:
Top row, left to right: Claude Smith, Frank Penn, Amos Osage, Daniel McDougan.
Middle row, left to right: Elias Stanton, Harry Kophay, Richard Rusk, Ben Harrison, Fred Penn
Bottom row, left to right: David Copperfield, George Connor, Amos Hamilton, Edgar McCarthy.
There is no Claude Smith in the school records from the Osage nation. Either this is Sioux student Claude Smith or is it Osage student Chester Smith.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lawney Shorty wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Spaniard (Joe Spanish) wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Phillips wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna Tabasash.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Smith (left) and Henry Old Eagle (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles Smith (Charles Red Hawk).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Minnie Perrine [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_055c.jpg?itok=mrTxyiYT "Minnie Perrine [version 2], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Minnie Perrine.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Dagenett wearing school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Charles Dagenett.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Crazy Bull (seated in school uniform) and Chief Little Wound (seated left), Chief Big Roads, an unidentified man (probably another visiting chief), and an unidentified young man (probably a student).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Minnie Perrine [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74076.jpg?itok=o5vKB565 "Minnie Perrine [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Minnie Perrine.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Johnson and William Beaulieu.
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 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
Studio portrait of Joseph H. Hamilton (seated left), Robert Hamilton (standing) and Anthony Austin (seated right), all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Robert Hamilton wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution