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 Rachel Tsikahda Morgan and Melinda Porter, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George No-coch-luke wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Clark Gregg wearing uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Julia Cobell and Susie Farwell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Florence Miller.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Josiah Redwolf, Lewis Williams, Samuel Tilden, Stephen Reuben, Charles White, and David McFarland. All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_067e.jpg?itok=Scuccd3f "Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?].
Note: The caption for this image is "Darthy Nol" (or possibly Darthy No 1"). There are no records for a student by that name. The only student named Dorothy who attended while Choate was taking photographs was Dorothy Dekhlikiseh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Annette Suisson and Naomi Merkel [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_049c.jpg?itok=6CUdWtI2 "Annette Suisson and Naomi Merkel [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Annette Suisson and Naomi Merkel.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Edward Peters wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sarah Nelson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Blanche Melbourne, Rufus Ricker, and Ezra Ricker.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Paul Teenabikizen.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Officers group [version 1], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73472.jpg?itok=V7TbHG8v "Officers group [version 1], 1892")
Portrait of a large group of male students in uniforms, accompanied by a white man in the center of the bottom row, posed on the steps of one of the student quarters on the school grounds.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image has a caption identifying the students as an Officers Group and providing a date of 1892. This plate also has 1892 scratched into it.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lovett Halftown.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nellie Robertson probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Albert Metoxen, Amos Metoxen, and Jonas Metoxen.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Susan Rodd.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Charlotte Wilson [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_050a.jpg?itok=FOdwZpig "Charlotte Wilson [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Charlotte Wilson.
Note: The identification of Wilson as Shawnee is a mistake. She is not identfiied as such in her school records.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Darwin Hayes, Wesson Murdock, Jacob Little Man, and Philip Pratt. Three are in school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Josiah Redwolf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Red Kettle wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles White, David McFarland, and Lewis Williams (also known as Luke Williams). All are wearing school uniforms.
Note: This image contains partial caption information for a different photograph.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, William Crazy Bull, and Charles Smith [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74007.jpg?itok=jHsMQbjJ "Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, William Crazy Bull, and Charles Smith [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Herbert Good Boy (back row at left) , Robert Horse (back row at right), William Crazy Bull (front row at left), and Charles Smith (front row at right). Crazy Bull is holding a framed portrait of a woman.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of John Lonestar.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lizzie Stands.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society