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 Trombly and Mary Beaulieu.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Caption: THE ASSEMBLY HALL AND CHAPEL.
is in the central part of the School building. It is light and airy and seats 800 persons.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 59. No prints of this image have yet been located.
Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably taken by student photographer John Leslie.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of William Larch.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Enter Lodge.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bessie Gotholda.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lambert Istone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of Robert B. Johnson as a student at the Carlisle Indian School around 1895.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Richard Grant.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Viola Zieh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Jassan wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Dahnola Jassan and John Jassan, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 2], c.1895](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NARA_1327_b135_f5297_0033_0.jpg?itok=6gK7g76l "Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 2], c.1895")
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe) as he graduated from the Carlisle Indian School in 1895.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Lydia Smith.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Corbett Lawyer.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Collage of four photographs.
Caption: SOME CARLISLE INDIAN GIRLS IN THEIR COUNTRY HOMES.
The socially elevating side of the outing is shown by the refined homes and families into which the pupils are received.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 62.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Caption: A COUNTRY SABBATH SCHOOL.
attended by a number of Indian girls during their outing. The Indian girls and boys are cordially received into Church and Sabbath School associations in all the communities in which they are placed.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 63.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Collage of six photographs.
Caption: INDIAN GIRLS AS PROFESSIONAL NURSES.
This picture represents former Carlisle pupils who, having received preliminary training in the School hospital, and having completed heir training in Philadelphia, New Haven and Hartford nurse schools, are now profitably employed in independent practice in the cities named. In this direction our Indian girls have been especially successful.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 64.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Tall Chief, an Osage chief.
Tall Chief is also in the group of Osage chiefs in PA-CH1-075b and with students in NAA73481.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Julia Long.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of three male and four female students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Eva Rogers, Rosalie Doctor, and Jeanette Rice.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Cynthia Webster.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benjamin Green, William Little Hawk, and Edward Fritz. Two are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Annie Marmon and Effie Marmon, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ernest Roe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society