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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Studio portrait of Maggie Simpson.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Sophia Huff and Lillie Huff, both probably wearing school uniforms. Sophia was two years younger than Lillie, and so is probably standing at left. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Two photographs attached to a cabinet card. The top image is the Indian School student body in 1892 (see PA-CH2-041 in Related Images); the bottom image is identified as the Indian School and Battalion. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of George Conner (seated on the right) and Charles Wright. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of William A. Denomie.

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 Celinda Metoxen possibly wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Samuel Tilden. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio photo of Ida Johnson.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Hattie Long Wolf (sitting at left), Celinda Metoxen (standing in center), and Nellie Carey (sitting at right), all wearing school uniforms. 

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 Annette Suisson and Naomi Merkel. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Peter Chief Eagle wearing a uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a very large group of male and female students posed on the school grounds, probably the entire student body of the school. The date March 1892 is written along the side of the image. 

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, posed on the steps of one of the student quarters on the school grounds.

The caption identifies them as an "officers group" and the date as March 1892. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of ten students, five male and five female, identified in the caption as "Kiowa group." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of five unidentified female students and five unidentified male students, one of whom is a small boy. 

Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Kiowa nation and provides a date of March 9, 1892 for the image.  

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of twenty-two female students, with one white teacher in center of the group, posed on the school grounds. One student in the front row is holding a cat.

The caption identifies them as the student group the King's Daughters Circle and also as the Wayside Gleaners. The school newspapers describe that the student group the King's Daughters, had four subgroups or "circles." One of them was known as the Wayside Gleaners. The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image identifies the white woman as Mrs. Dixon, who the school paper confirms was chosen as the "lead" of the Wayside Gleaners. She was the wife of school physician C. Dixon from 1891 to 1892. That copy of the image also has the date October 1892. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of eighteen female students, with one white woman in center, posed on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the King's Daughters and also as the Sunshine Scatters. The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of the image also identifies them as the Sunshine Scatters, but also names the white woman as Miss. Fisher and provides a date of October 1892. 

The school newspapers say that the student group the King's Daughters had four subgroups or "circles," and that one of them was the Sunshine Scatterers. Miss Effie (or Elspeth) Fisher was a employee of the school from 1881 to 1892, and would have been the "lead" of this circle. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of thirty-one female students, with one white woman in the center, posed in front of the flag pole on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the What-so-ever Circle, the white woman as Miss Shaffner, and provides a date of October 1892.

The What-So-Evers were a "circle" or a subgroup of the female student group the King's Daughters. Miss Lillie R. Shaffner (or Schaffner) was a teacher at the school in 1892 and was identified in the school newspapers as the leader of the What-So-Evers.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of the Indian School band posed on the school grounds. The date October 1892 is part of the caption written on the plate. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of the Indian School band posed on the school grounds. The date October 1892 is part of the caption for this image. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-038 and 10-B-18. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of thirty-one female students, with one white woman in the center, posed in front of the flag pole on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the What-so-ever Circle. The National Anthrpological Archives copy of this image also identifies the name of the group, and also the white woman as Miss Shaffner, and provides a date of October 1892. 

The What-So-Evers were a "circle" or a subgroup of the female student group the King's Daughters. Miss Lille R. Shaffner (or Schaffner) was a teacher at the school in 1892 and was identified in the school newspapers as the leader of the What-So-Evers. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of twenty-two female students, with one white teacher in center of the group, posed on the school grounds. One student in the front row is holding a cat.

The caption identifies them as the student group the King's Daughters Circle and also as the Wayside Gleaners. The school newspapers describe that the student group the King's Daughters, had four subgroups or "circles." One of them was known as the Wayside Gleaners. The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image identifies the white woman as Mrs. Dixon, who the school paper confirms was chosen as the "lead" of the Wayside Gleaners. She was the wife of school physician C. Dixon from 1891 to 1892. That copy of the image also has the date October 1892. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society