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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![Nine female students [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73779.jpg?itok=DpmaUELw "Nine female students [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (back row, left to right): Harriet Kyocea, Lydia Harrington, Louie Cornelius, Katie White Bird, and Julia Logan; (front row, left to right): Alice Long Pole, Jennie Black, Nellie Aspenall, and Jennie Conners.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students and three unidentified female students. The seated male student has been identified as Lot Eyelash.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A carriage, presumably one made by the students, in front of the band stand on the school grounds.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Male students, one standing in front behind a desk, several others in the front seated, with rows of chairs with seated students facing them, posed at a meeting of one of the debating societies.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Eustace Pelone.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates part of the handwritten caption on the image says "March 1885."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Phillip White (Phillips Bob Tail).
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date April 1885.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Rose White Thunder (left) and Hope Blue Teeth (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Samuel Keryte [version 2], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_100c.jpg?itok=FujsNWF3 "Samuel Keryte [version 2], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Samuel Keryte wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Charles D. Wheelock and Dennison Wheelock [version 1], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73987.jpg?itok=TkhyowBt "Charles D. Wheelock and Dennison Wheelock [version 1], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Charles D. Wheelock (seated at left) and Dennison Wheelock (standing at right). Dennison is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Everett.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Jiron, a Native American man (seated at left), Harvey Townsend (standing in center), and Henry Kendall (seated at left).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Hudson (standing) and Clarence White Thunder (seated). Hudson is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Richard Wallace wearing school uniform and holding a hat.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Anson Garlick.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joshua Given.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Robert Big Bear wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Paisano family group [?], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73647.jpg?itok=lgqcWB8a "Paisano family group [?], c.1886")
Studio portrait of four male students and three female students, all in school-issued clothes or uniforms.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates this may be a group of students from the Paisano family, possibly with an unrelated student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Morning wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mark White Shield and Charley White Shield.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the hand written caption is "M.W. and Charles W. [Jaield]."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Wounded Yellow Robe [version 1], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74389.jpg?itok=JI1Msijz "Wounded Yellow Robe [version 1], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Wounded Yellow Robe (also known as Richard Yellow Robe) wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lillie Wind.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Jason Betzinez, Effie Zaienah, and Maggie Iahanetha [version 2], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_020b.jpg?itok=lmtamgWI "Jason Betzinez, Effie Zaienah, and Maggie Iahanetha [version 2], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez, Effie Zaienah, and Maggie Iahanetha. Betzinez is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Patrick Bitter and an unidentified male student, both wearing school uniforms. Bitter is the student on the right.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Juan Cordero, Awancishua, and an unidentified male student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution