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 1951 - 1975 of 4019 records

Studio portrait of Robert Tome [?]. 

Note: This original caption for this image identifies him as Robert Thomas (Caddo nation). There are no records of a student with that name. Therefore we believe it is Caddo student Robert Tome.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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 Almeda Heavy Hair.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Hattie Long Wolf (left), Amos Long Wolf (center), and Hannah Long Wolf (right).

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Charlotte Wilson. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Henry Old Eagle, George Running Horse, and Samuel Flying Horse. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Joseph Morrison (left) and James R. Wheelock (right). 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of a large group of young male and female students posed on the steps of a brick building. The caption identifies them as "Miss Coony's Class."

School records show a teacher named Carrie Cory in 1892.  

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Charles Dickens. Although the caption lists him as Apache, he is actually Yavapai.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of eight Piegan chiefs. 

The January 8, 1892 issue of the  Indian Helper (vol. 7 no. 17) reports that these chiefs had visited the school the previous week.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has six copies of this image. One of those copies identifies the chiefs as Running Crane, Little Dog, White Grass, White Calf, Little Plume, Four Horns, Brocky, Bear Chief (or Little Bear Chief).  

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of William A. Denomie.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Lewis Williams, often known as Lewis Daniel Williams (to differentiate him from another Nez Perce student of the same name).

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Nancy Wheelock and Elijah Wheelock. Elijah is wearing a school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of John Webster and Roger Silas, both wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Isaac Webster.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Joseph Morrison (at left) and James R. Wheelock (at right).

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-031b and CS-CH-055. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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 James Waldo. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Martino Vallo. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Anthony Austin (seated left), Thomas Kose (standing left), Robert Hamilton (standing right), and Charles Buck (seated right) in school uniforms taken around 1892. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Philip Marshall, Mary Cut Foot, and Harrison Marshall.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of male students in front of YMCA building, presumably the members of the YMCA. 

On the Cumberland County Historical Society's print of this image the date 1892 is written along the side. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Frank Crouse wearing a uniform. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The caption reads:  #1 LITTLE HAWK,  #2 F. JANNIES,  #3 Wm. C. BULL.

The printed note reads: FRANK JANNIES, SIOUX, Entered Carlisle 1883; remained the full term of five years; was employed as a carpenter at Rosebud Agency S. Dak.; enlisted in the Army Dec. 1891; became 1st Sgt. Co. I, 16th Infry., and served as school teacher at the Post.  WM. C. BULL and SAMUEL LITTLE HAWK, also members of the same tribe, served their full term at Carlisle and enlisted in the Army July, 1892.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: No. 1 Sam L Hawk 3rd Sergt.  No. 2 Frank Jannies 3rd Sergt.  No. 3 Wm C. Bull 3rd Sergt. Co. For Captain.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Portrait of a large group of male students in front of YMCA building, presumably the members of the YMCA. The date 1892 is written along the side of this image. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: FB03-21 and PA-CH2-040.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society