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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Displaying 1826 - 1850 of 4018 records

Studio portrait of Albert White Wolf. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of eleven male students, three Native American men, and one white man. The caption identifies them as from the Osage nation. 

A researcher gave the Cumberland County Historical Society partial identifications for the sitters in this photo. According to this information, back row, left to right: Unidentified, Unidentified, Ben Harrison, Elias Stanton, Amos Osage, and Harry Kohpay; middle row, left to right: Black Dog, Fred Penn, Edgar McCarthy, William Connor, Peter Big Heart, and Unidentified; bottom row, left to right: Ernest Roe, Richard Rusk, and George Conner. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Felix Iron Eagle Feather. 

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

Studio portrait of George Conner (seated at right) and William Johnson [?] (probably standing at left). Both are wearing school uniforms.

Note: Previous cataloging interpreted the handwritten caption as "[?] Connor and W. Johnson." The identification of these as George Conner (who was 19 years old on arrival in 1890) and William Johnson (for whom no age was given when he arrived in 1890) is preliminary. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Dennison Wheelock wearing a band uniform, holding a cornet and a conductor's baton.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Hugh Leider.

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 young woman wearing school uniform, probably student Rosalie Ereaux.

The caption reads: Rosalie Roso. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Simon King (right), Henry Williams, and Martin Christjohn [?], all wearing school uniforms.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Lazarus Willis. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Celicia Wheelock, Ida Wheelock, James R. Wheelock, and Dennison Wheelock. James and Dennison are wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Martha Napawat probably wearing school uniform.

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

Studio portrait of James Grant, Richard Sanderville, William Ellis and an unidentified young man. Two are in school uniforms.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Lawney Shorty wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Richard Sanderville wearing school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Willie Hazlett (standing) and Richard Sanderville, the latter in school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Alexander Upshaw wearing a uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Delia Randell (left) and Minnie Yandell (right).

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Minnie Yandell.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Annie Boswell. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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 Malcolm Clark, Edward Clark, and Elmer Simon, all wearing school uniforms.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of a visiting chief, identified by the ribbon on his lapel as Young Man Afraid of Horses. 

This image is also included as part of the composite group of visiting Sioux chiefs (linked to in Related Images). In that he is identified as Young Man Afraid of his Horses. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture