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 Angeline View.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-071g and 14A-10-02.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Katie Creager (left) and Seichu Atsye (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Ladeaux.
Note: Previous cataloging indicated the student's name in the hand written caption is George Laden.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of David Abraham.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Jos. Payawesa Sr. & Jr.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Joseph Murdock, likely taken during one of his times on outing in Columbia County, near Bloomsburg, PA, between 1900 and 1903.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Juan Apachese and Carlos Eprico.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Pupils bedroom
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: CARLYLE COLLEGE
First Indian College for Women
Aunt Pearl
Note: Image donated by Claudia Washburn.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student wearing a hat.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Electa Hill.
Note: It is not known if this is Electa C. Hill or Electa D. Hill, who both attended the school at the same time and were of similar age.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Pasquala Anderson and Ida Swallow.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sosipatra Suvoroff and Irene Suvoroff.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note reads: C. Dillon
View of Charles Dillon in his Carlisle football uniform around 1900.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
The printed note reads: Photographed by J. N. CHOATE, No. 21 W. Main St., Carlisle.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle PA
Stereoscopic card showing Richard Henry Pratt and his family outside in the snow, in front of the Superintendent's Quarters at the Carlisle Indian School.
Format: Stereograph
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of four unidentified male students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A class room with smaller male and female students, some standing and writing on the blackboard. A white female teacher sits at a desk in the front.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Younger male and female students posed sitting at desks in what a label identifies as a "Normal Room."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
An empty schoolroom with a teacher's desk and students desks. This is identified in a label as a "Normal School Room."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students in uniform, posed in a row.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the rear of the Industrial Workshop Building, with a few male students in the foreground.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students posed working at tables in the wagonmaking shop.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing glasses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society