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 Herbert Good Boy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Horse Looking (at left) and an unidentified male student (at right).
Note: The handwritten caption is difficult to read. The student at right may be Noah Hawk.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portarit of Nellie Eagle Child.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sophia American Horse, Alice American Horse, and Hattie Eagle Horn, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Enter Lodge probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Kate Stocker wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Minnie Finley.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bertha Dye.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nellie Barada.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Wood-cutting class [version 2], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_063b.jpg?itok=M_fffqCg "Wood-cutting class [version 2], c.1893")
Studio portrait of eleven students, six male students and five female students, identified in the caption as being the "Wood-cutting class."
The wood cutting class is referenced in the school paper in January 1893.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Melinda Porter.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Cynthia Webster.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Leander Gansworth.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Howard Gansworth, Leander Gansworth, Alberta Gansworth, and Willard Gansworth.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Louisa Pinkham wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Luther Dah-hah.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Luther Dah-hah.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Bemus Pierce.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Peter Nahmais [?], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_061c.jpg?itok=l77H4rpt "Peter Nahmais [?], c.1893")
Studio portrait of Peter Nahmais [?].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Andrew Light.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Julia Dorris.
This image also contains caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified man.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Seventeen male Sioux students [version 1], 1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73422.jpg?itok=pJ-5TwH7 "Seventeen male Sioux students [version 1], 1893")
Studio portrait of seventeen male students, some wearing school uniforms. The caption for this image identifies them as being from the Pine Ridge reservation. The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society copy identifies them as being from the Sioux nation and provides a date of 1893.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nelson Porter and George Martin.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Antoine Donnell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sarah Kennedy (left), Helen Patterson (right), and Ely Parker (center).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society