Images

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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Displaying 1801 - 1825 of 4011 records

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 visiting chief Two Strike. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of visiting chief Hollow Horn Bear. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Rachel Tsikahda Morgan wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of eleven male students, three Native American men, and one white man. The caption identifies them as from the Osage nation. 

A researcher gave the Cumberland County Historical Society partial identifications for the sitters in this photo. According to this information, back row, left to right: Unidentified, Unidentified, Ben Harrison, Elias Stanton, Amos Osage, and Harry Kohpay; middle row, left to right: Black Dog, Fred Penn, Edgar McCarthy, William Connor, Peter Big Heart, and Unidentified; bottom row, left to right: Ernest Roe, Richard Rusk, and George Conner. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of a male student who is probably Peter Nahmais.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Harry Hutchinson, John Baptiste, and David Turkey, all probably wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio photo of thirteen male students. They are identified in the caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society copy of this image as being "Osage group, 1891."

A researcher at the Cumberland County Historical Society identified the students in their copy of this image as, top row, left to right: Claude Smith, Frank Penn, Amos Osage, Daniel McDougan; middle row, left to right: Elias Stanton, Harry Kophay, Richard Rusk, Ben Harrison, Fred Penn; bottom row, left to right: David Copperfield, George Conner, Amos Hamilton, Edgar McCarthy.

There is no Claude Smith in the school records from the Osage nation. Either this is Sioux student Claude Smith or it is Osage student Chester Smith.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Joseph Evans and Peter Oscar. One is wearing a school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Alexander Upshaw wearing a uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of twelve male students. The caption identifies them as from the Piegan nation and as having entered on March 26, 1890. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Julia Bent, probably wearing a school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of twenty-one students--eleven male and ten female students--posed on the steps outside a brick building, probably on the school grounds. The caption says that they are "Crows from the Crow Agency, Montana, who entered Carlisle Indian School in 1890." 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-079 and 13-21-01.

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

Studio portrait of twenty people: one male student, eighteen female students, and one teacher. The caption identifies this as "Music Class, 1891." The NAA copy of this image identifies the teacher as Miss Moore. School records show the music teacher was Annie Moore. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of twenty people: one male student, eighteen female students, and one teacher. The caption identifies the group of "Miss Moore with her music class." School records show Annie Moore was the music teacher at that time. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of the image dates it to 1891.  

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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 fourteen male students, identified in the caption as "Pueblo group, 1891." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio photo of thirteen male students, identified in the caption as being "Osage group, 1891. 

A researcher at the Cumberland County Historical Society identified as the students as:

Top row, left to right: Claude Smith, Frank Penn, Amos Osage, Daniel McDougan. 

Middle row, left to right: Elias Stanton, Harry Kophay, Richard Rusk, Ben Harrison, Fred Penn

Bottom row, left to right: David Copperfield, George Connor, Amos Hamilton, Edgar McCarthy. 

There is no Claude Smith in the school records from the Osage nation. Either this is Sioux student Claude Smith or is it Osage student Chester Smith. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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

Studio portrait of Charles Dagenett wearing school uniform. 

A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Charles Dagenett.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Charles Buck (left) and Anthony Austin (right).

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Ernest Hogee (standing at left) and Jason Betzinez (seated at right).

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The caption reads: RICHARD DAVIS, CHEYENNE.

The printed note reads: Born 1867 at Sand Creek, Col., entered Carlisle 1879; learned the Printers' trade.  In 1888, married Nannie Aspenall, a Pawnee girl, at Carlisle, and worked for a Penna. farmer engages in raising thoroughbred stock.  He has been in charge of the School herd of 65 thoroughbred and graded animals and the Dairying until the Summer of 1894 when he was appointed District Farmer of the Cheyenne Agency.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Studio portrait of Belknap Fox.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society