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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![Gymnasium Building [version 2], c. 1901](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/LS-D084.jpg?itok=CcHn2Dmx "Gymnasium Building [version 2], c. 1901")
View of school's Gymnasium building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![James Browndog [version 2], c.1901](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/0321.f.0018_alt.jpg?itok=F7Ufgn-C "James Browndog [version 2], c.1901")
Studio portrait of James Browndog around 1901.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Studio portrait of two female students.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Studio portrait of August Kensler, who served as quartermaster and storekeeper at the school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Gymnasium Building [version 1], c. 1901](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/00331B%231.jpg?itok=UhzMidX2 "Gymnasium Building [version 1], c. 1901")
View of the school's Gymnasium.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charlotte (here Lottie) Harris.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio potrait of Johnson Owl.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Julio Fernandez wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Pradt and Zenobia Garcia.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna Buck and Cooki Glook.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Howard E. Gansworth. This photo was scanned from a program for a dinner held by the Carlisle Indian School Alumni Association held on April 2, 1908. It is not clear when this photo was taken.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Raleigh Jackson (left) and Elijah Wheelock (right), both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A large group of male and female students posed on the school grounds.
This image, with the caption PORTO RICAN GROUP, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 99].
This image is a later print made by the Cumberland County Historical Society from an unidentified source.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mr. Terrance with two male students and seven female students. The caption identifies Terrance and that the students were from the Mohawk nation.
There is a Mr. Terrance mentioned in the student newspapers as being from the Mohawk nation and having three children of his own at the school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Maud Snyder.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The headline reads: Many Indians in the City; Adopt White Man's Ways
The first caption reads: Frank A. Kennedy, Seneca, Who Has Become an Automobile Expert.
The second caption reads: Ezra L. Jacobs of Brooklyn, A Seneca Indian and Descendant of Chief Cornplanter, Who Has Served in the Regular Army and Seen Phillippine Service.
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Hattie Acklin.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Laura Ammon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mabel Greely.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![James Browndog [version 1], c.1901](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73672.jpg?itok=vDTuoBc_ "James Browndog [version 1], c.1901")
Studio portrait of James Browndog. A handwritten caption written along the side of the image probably reads: James Brown Dog.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles Bent.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
This photo may have been taken in advance of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY.
This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of the graduating class of 1901.
The students are identified with white numbers corresponding to the typed label below the photograph. They are:1. Peters, Nellie, 2. Palmer, Jessie, 3. Johnson, Mark, 4. Johnson, Dollie, 5. Baine, John, 6. Powlas, Alice, 7. Beaver, Frank, 8. Brown, Samuel J., 9. Goyituey, Anna, 10. Coates, Henrietta, 11. Wasson, Jennie, 12. Ferris, George, 13. Gansworth, Alberta, 14. Gansworth, Willard, 15. Mishler, Stella, 16. Tibbetts, Luzena, 17. Johnson, James, E., 18. LaChapelle, Joseph, 19. Parnell, Anna, 20. McIntosh, Donald, 21. Moore, Edwin, 22. Nash, Augusta, 23. Parker, Mattie, 24. Niles, Herman, 25. Palmer, Simon, 26. LaChapelle, Pearl, 27. Powlas, John, 28. Pratt, Arthur, 29. Rickard, Edgar, 30. Denny, Elnora, 31. Moore, Edwin, 32. Spieche, Alonza, 33. Swallow, Ida, 34. Tapia, Antonio, 35. Temple, Wingate, 36. Warren, Eugene, 37. Willing, Edward G., 38 Sturm, Ella, 39. Moses, Myron
Note: Edwin Smith, a member of this graduating class, is not included in the photo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
School band leading male students marching down Pennsylvania Avenue, with the U. S. Capital in the background, with the caption that this is the inauguration of President McKinley.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Richard Henry Pratt seated on a horse.
In 1901 the Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston to document the school at Carlisle for an exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Johnston visited the school in the spring of that year and took at least one hundred photographs. Johnston donated her personal papers, including 103 prints of the photographs taken at Carlisle, to the Library of Congress.
A copy of this print is available for download from the Library of Congress website: https://www.loc.gov/item/2008675529/.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division