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 Charles Smith (Charles Red Hawk).
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 Maggie Thomas.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 Rachel Tsikahda Morgan wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Belknap Fox.
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 Sarah Flynn wearing school uniform.
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 Chauncey Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Thomas Flynn and John Kennedy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 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 Eddie Running Crane wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lazarus Willis.
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
The caption reads: RICHARD DAVIS, CHEYENNE.
The printed note reads: Born 1867 at Sand Creek, Col., entered Carlisle 1879; learned the Printers' trade. In 1888, married Nannie Aspenall, a Pawnee girl, at Carlisle, and worked for a Penna. farmer engages in raising thoroughbred stock. He has been in charge of the School herd of 65 thoroughbred and graded animals and the Dairying until the Summer of 1894 when he was appointed District Farmer of the Cheyenne Agency.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Louis Caswell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Dennison Wheelock wearing a band uniform, holding a cornet and a conductor's baton.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Minnie Perrine.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles Buck (left) and Anthony Austin (right).
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 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
Portrait of a large group of unidentified male and female students posed on the steps of a brick building with a white woman, identified in the caption as Miss Hunt. There are six small white children posed with them in the front row.
School records show Lydia Hunt worked as a teacher at the school from 1890 to 1892.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of a baseball team with "Indians" on the front of their uniforms, with white coach or teacher in center.
The handwritten caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this images identifies them as the Union Reserve baseball team. The sitters are identified in that image as: back row, Frank Everett and Charles Damon; middle row, Josiah Powlas, Jonas Place, Mr. Goodyear, Levi St. Cyr, and Joseph Harris; front row, Harry Hutchinson, Harry Kohpay, Morgan Toprock, and Henry Froman. Note there are no records for a student named Henry Froman, therefore we believe this is William Froman.
The Cumberland County Historical Society relied upon Josiah Powlas for the dating of this photograph as c.1891. Two of the sitters left the school in July 1891, so that date is possible. However, the National Anthropological Archives version of the image identified a date of 1892.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution