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 Jeanette Buckles.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Peter Alexander.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Allen Blackchief (left) and Hiram Blackchief (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![David Sku-vi-uk [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74053.jpg?itok=6jJ2x0Pl "David Sku-vi-uk [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of David Sku-vi-uk wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Piegan Chiefs (Blackfoot Confederacy) [version 2], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0010.jpg?itok=z3KE_wqW "Piegan Chiefs (Blackfoot Confederacy) [version 2], 1892")
A typed note on the reverse side reads: PIEGAN CHIEFS (BLACKFOOT CONFEDERACY) VISITING CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL (ca. 1891).
Front Seated Left - Running Crane, Chief of Lone Eaters.
Front Seated Center - Little Dog, Chief of the Black Patched Moccasins Bands.
Seated Center Left - White Grass.
Right of Center - White Calf, Head Chief of Piegans in Montana.
Far Right - Little Plume.
Standing Left - Four Horns.
Standing Center - Brocky.
Standing Right - Bear Chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73804.jpg?itok=KVs93UC_ "Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Alexander Manabove, Albert Sitting Eagle, and John Runninghorse.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Albert Sitting Eagle [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74089.jpg?itok=AohdPh5i "Albert Sitting Eagle [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Albert Sitting Eagle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles Dickens. Although the caption lists him as Apache, he is actually Yavapai.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William A. Denomie.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Officers group [version 1], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73472.jpg?itok=V7TbHG8v "Officers group [version 1], 1892")
Portrait of a large group of male students in uniforms, accompanied by a white man in the center of the bottom row, posed on the steps of one of the student quarters on the school grounds.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image has a caption identifying the students as an Officers Group and providing a date of 1892. This plate also has 1892 scratched into it.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of George No-coch-luke wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Celinda Metoxen possibly wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martino Vallo.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Sarah Nelson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Carefelle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![James Waldo [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74206.jpg?itok=_u1PVDkE "James Waldo [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of James Waldo.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Levi St. Cyr.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Joel Cornelius wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Melinda Metoxen.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Solomon Collins and Francis Goulche, one wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, William Crazy Bull, and Charles Smith [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74007.jpg?itok=jHsMQbjJ "Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, William Crazy Bull, and Charles Smith [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Herbert Good Boy (back row at left) , Robert Horse (back row at right), William Crazy Bull (front row at left), and Charles Smith (front row at right). Crazy Bull is holding a framed portrait of a woman.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Mark Hopkins.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_067e.jpg?itok=Scuccd3f "Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?].
Note: The caption for this image is "Darthy Nol" (or possibly Darthy No 1"). There are no records for a student by that name. The only student named Dorothy who attended while Choate was taking photographs was Dorothy Dekhlikiseh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ernest Hogee.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Albert Metoxen, Amos Metoxen, and Jonas Metoxen.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution