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 Louis Levering.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Arnold Kinzhuna (standing at right) and Hulda Kinzhuna (seated at left) with an unidentified boy and girl.
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 Casper Cailis wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Richard Wallace wearing an overcoat and holding a hat.
Note: Handwritten caption identifies this student as Dick Wallace.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Yamie Leeds.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of seven unidentified male students and ten unidentified female students, all wearing school uniforms, posed outside on the school grounds.
Previous cataloging interprets the caption as saying they are from the Pine Ridge reservation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of staff member Philip Norman. Norman served as band leader and this is said to be his band leader uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image. One identifies them as Apache students and the other as specifically San Carlos Apaches.
Records document fewer than fifteen male San Carlos Apache students ever attending the school, and they were not all there at the same time.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings.
The Cumber County Historical Society's print of this image identifies the group as the Republic Debating Society.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of a large group of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings.
The Cumberland County Historial Society has a print of this image which identifies the group as the Union Debating Society.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings.
The Cumber County Historical Society's print of this image identifies the group as the Republic Debating Society.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
View of the Large Boys' Quarters, with students on the porches and in front of the building, probably taken in the winter.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image. One identifies them as Apache students and the other as specifically San Carlos Apaches. Records document fewer than fifteen male San Carlos Apache students ever attending the school, and they were not all there at the same time.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Twenty-five members of the school band, posed on the steps of the Large Boys' Quarters, holding their instruments.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Belle Sestuwitsuh.
Previous cataloging indicates that the handwritten caption includes the date February 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Persis Big Hair wearing a school uniform. Handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Persis Big Hair, February 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of infants Katie Kinzhuna and Eunice Suison.
The handwritten note reads: Kate Irvine Kinzhune and Eunice Suison
This image is believed to have been taken in February, 1888. Kate was the daughter of students Hulda and Arnold Kinzhuna. Eunice was the daughter of students Annette and Neal Suison. The photograph was sold under the title "The Apache Babies" or "Our Apache Babies."
This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Eunice Suison, infant daughter of Indian School student Annette Suison. Eunice was one of the children known as the "Apache babies"
The Cumberland County Historical Society dates this image to February 1888.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Felix Iron Eagle Feather wearing school uniform.
Note: The handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads in part "2/ 1888".
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Meta Atsye in school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Meta Atsye, Feburary 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of infants Katie Kinzhuna and Eunice Suison.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date December or February 1888.
This image is believed to have been taken in February, 1888. Kate was the daughter of students Hulda and Arnold Kinzhuna. Eunice was the daughter of students Annette and Neal Suison. The photograph was sold under the title "The Apache Babies" or "Our Apache Babies."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of infants Katie Kinzhuna and Eunice Suison.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date February 1888.
This image is believed to have been taken in February, 1888. Kate was the daughter of students Hulda and Arnold Kinzhuna. Eunice was the daughter of student Annette and Neal Suison. The photograph was sold under the title "The Apache Babies" or "Our Apache Babies."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of infants Katie Kinzhuna and Eunice Suison.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date February 1888.
This image is believed to have been taken in February, 1888. Kate was the daughter of students Hulda and Arnold Kinzhuna. Eunice was the daughter of students Annette and Neal Suison. The photograph was sold under the title "The Apache Babies" or "Our Apache Babies."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Gail Marko wearing school uniform.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date March 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution