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 Christine Redstone, probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of fourteen unidentified male students and seven unidentified female students with a white woman, presumbaly a teacher.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A white man posed shoveling coal into a boiler in the boiler room.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of five unidentified young female students, one unidentified young male student, and an unidentified white woman, probably a teacher. The boy is wearing a uniform and the girls are all wearing dressed made from a striped fabric.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date August 1897.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The handwritten note reads: ALASKAN INDIANS.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Pupils from Alaska AS THEY ARRIVED AT CARLISLE IN THE FALL OF 1897 SEE REDMAN, JUNE 1899.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The caption reads: COACHING THE CARLISLE INDIANS AT FOOT-BALL.
Bemis Pierce, captain and right guard. Smith, centre. Redwater, left guard.
This image appears in Leslie's Weekly Illustrated vol. 85, no. 2199 (November 4, 1897).
Format: Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Six Alaskan students upon arrival [version 1], 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73313.jpg?itok=MVa-xUOb "Six Alaskan students upon arrival [version 1], 1897")
Studio portrait of Annie Coodlalook (far left), Tomiclock (second from left), Laublock (standing in center), Anna Buck (second from right), Cooki Glook (far right), and Esenetuck (seated in front). All are wearing clocks with fur-timmed hoods. This photo seems to have been taken shortly after their arrival at the school in November, 1897.
Note: This is a photograph of a photgraph. Previous cataloging states that there is a date of October 1897 on this image (which is probably incorrect) and that these students were brought to Carlisle by Dr. Sheldon Jackson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Kittie Silverheels.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Herman Niles and Samuel Brushel.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Luzenia Tibbetts.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Yarlot and Byron Wilde.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Russell Whitebear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Seven unidentified Pueblo students [version 1], c.1898](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73392.jpg?itok=kmTD_Kao "Seven unidentified Pueblo students [version 1], c.1898")
Studio portrait of three male students and four female students posed around a staircase prop.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Sherman Chadlesome.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Reuben Tahpers wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hugh Leider.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jane Murray (also known as Jane Maria).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Pasquala Anderson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Loughery wearing uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ralph Armstrong.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Seichu Atsye.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Neal Monoahsy.
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 Edward G. Willing.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Minnie Zawallager wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society