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 Viola Zieh.
Note: This image also contains caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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 Joseph Evans.
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 portrait of Blanche Melbourne, Rufus Ricker, and Ezra Ricker.
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 Samuel Tilden.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Philip Marshall, Mary Cut Foot, and Harrison Marshall.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of J. Grover Ground.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A typed note on the reverse side reads: PIEGAN CHIEFS (BLACKFOOT CONFEDERACY) VISITING CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL (ca. 1891).
Front Seated Left - Running Crane, Chief of Lone Eaters.
Front Seated Center - Little Dog, Chief of the Black Patched Moccasins Bands.
Seated Center Left - White Grass.
Right of Center - White Calf, Head Chief of Piegans in Montana.
Far Right - Little Plume.
Standing Left - Four Horns.
Standing Center - Brocky.
Standing Right - Bear Chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Josiah Redwolf.
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 James Waldo.
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 George McDaniels wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of the Juniors baseball team, with white coach or teacher in center. Both the uniforms and the caption identify them as the Juniors, one of several baseball teams at the school. The Indian Helper newspaper issue for April 1, 1892 mentions that the team had a photo taken a few days earlier.
The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this image identifies them as the 1892 team.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of thirteen male students, most in athletic gear. The student in the center is holding a football with a "P" on it.
Note: Previous cataloging for this image identifies the team as the "Pirates."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of school baseball team with C.I.T.S. on front of their uniforms, with white coach or teacher in center.
The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this image identifies it as the 1892 team.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Student body assembled on the school grounds. The female students on the left and male on the right.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of thirteen male students, most in athletic gear. The student in the center is holding a football with a "P" on it.
Note: Previous cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image identifies the team as the "Pirates."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of a male student, possibly David Tipsico.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Little Dog, a Piegan chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Portrait of school baseball team with C.I.T.S. on the front of their uniforms, with white coach or teacher in center. The handwritten caption identifies it as the 1892 team.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of the Juniors baseball team, with white coach or teacher in center. Both the uniforms and the caption identify them as the Juniors, one of several baseball teams at the school. The caption identifies them as the 1892 team. The Indian Helper newspaper issue for April 1, 1892 mentions that the team had a photo taken a few days earlier.
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