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 Sophia American Horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Blackbear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John C. Morris.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of David McFarland.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Christine Redstone, probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Isabella Young.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Edith Smith.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of five unidentified male students. The handwritten caption identifies them as being from the Chippewa nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Artie Miller.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Griffin wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Shela Guthrie Brown holding a doll.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Mt. Pleasant wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Wolf wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Rooks.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Odell La Fleur wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bessie Nick (back left), Chiltoski Nick (back right), Minnie Nick (front left), and Hattie Woodfin (front right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benjamin F. Hardison wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Casper Alford.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Webster, Delia Webster, Cynthia Webster, and Lewis Webster.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Russell Whitebear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martha Owl.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Wolfe.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Eugene Cheago.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 2], 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_101.jpg?itok=4e4ntfH0 "Graduating Class of 1897 [pose 2], 1897")
Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. They are: Back Row, Left to Right: Gruett, Samuel, Chippewa /Depoe, Robert, Siletz/Whitethunder, Clarence, Sioux, /Roger, Edward, Chippewa, /Brigman, Cornelius, Oneida, /Miller, Mary, Chippewa, /Jones, Frank, Sac and Fox, /Sherrill, William, Cherokee, /Mishler, Charles, Charles,
Second Row: Hill, Lizzie, Sioux, /Red Eagle, Grace, Quapaw, /Buck, Mabel, Sioux; Third Row: Red Kettle, Henry, Sioux, /Owl, Martha, Cherokee, /Kowuni, Annie, Pueblo, /Upshaw, Alexander, Crow, /Seneca, Nancy, Seneca, /Smith, Clark, Klamath, /Smith, Edith M., Tuscarora, /Williams, Julia, Chippewa; Front Row: Smith, Sarah, Oneida, /Shively, Frank S., Crow, /Miller, Olive, Stockbridge, /Wirth, Tenie, Assiniboin, /Mishler, Louis, Chippewa, /Nash, Albert, Winnebago/
This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-101, 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Cynthia Cooper wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society