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 James Phemister wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joseph Cobell wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jennie Mitchell (at left) and Nellie Carey (at right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Twenty-three Apache students [version 2], 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_064b.jpg?itok=m2lXOG4W "Twenty-three Apache students [version 2], 1891")
Studio portrait of twenty-three students, fourteen male and nine female students, identified in the caption as "Apache Group, 1891."
Staff at the Cumberland County Historical Society have identified, based on comparison with other photographs, that the following students are in this group: Parker Whitney West, Ernest Hogee, Viola Zieh, Dorothy Dekhlikiseh, Naomi Merkel (Kohten), Janette Woods (Pahgostatum), Annette Suison, Oswald Smith, Jason Betzinez, and Gail Marko.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Six Killer wearing school uniform.
Note: This image also contains caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Maggie Old Eagle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lazarus Willis.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Julia Bent [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74382.jpg?itok=e0V-5xmb "Julia Bent [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Julia Bent, probably wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Minnie Yandell.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Delia Randell (left) and Minnie Yandell (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of visiting chief Hollow Horn Bear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of visiting chief Two Strike.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Stephen Reuben [pose 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73613.jpg?itok=OWneIgSG "Stephen Reuben [pose 2], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Stephen Reuben in school uniform with star-shaped pin.
This photograph was almost definitely taken at the same time as the others linked to in Related Images.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Melinda Metoxen.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Twenty-three Apache students [version 2], 1891Twenty-three Apache students [version 1], 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73540.jpg?itok=S14Qsi2Y "Twenty-three Apache students [version 1], 1891")
Studio portrait of fourteen male students and nine female students. The caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society identifies them as from the Apache nation and gives a date of 1891 for the image. Previous catloging for this version also says they are Apache students but says there is a date of 16 January 1892 in the caption.
Staff at the Cumberland County Historical Society have identified, based on comparison with other photographs, that the following students are in this group: Parker Whitney West, Ernest Hogee, Viola Zieh, Dorothy Dekhlikiseh, Naomi Merkel (Kohten), Janette Woods (Pahgostatum), Annette Suison, Oswald Smith, Jason Betzinez, and Gail Marko.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock wearing school uniform and holding a hat.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Evans and Peter Oscar. One is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Simon King, Henry Williams, and Martin Christjohn [?], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74228.jpg?itok=z1BvpP0a "Simon King, Henry Williams, and Martin Christjohn [?], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Simon King (right), Henry Williams, and Martin Christjohn [?], all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Phillips wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Albert White Wolf [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73802.jpg?itok=KmUgNhGr "Albert White Wolf [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Albert White Wolf.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of one female and ten male students, the graduating class of 1891.
They are, back row, left to right: Robert Matthews (seated), Martin Archiquette, John Tyler, William Froman, Charles E. Dagenett; middle row, seated, left to right: Henry Standing Bear, Etta Robertson, Levi St. Cyr, Harry Kohpay; front row, seated, Josiah Powlas and Yamie Leeds.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 18.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-024 and 15-22-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Dennison Wheelock with a cornet [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74283.jpg?itok=IDAULfsh "Dennison Wheelock with a cornet [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Dennison Wheelock wearing a band uniform, holding a cornet and a conductor's baton.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of James Riley Wheelock (right) and Martin Wheelock, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Anni Medicine wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Otto Wells.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution