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 Hawley Pierce.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Reuben Jones.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Maud Sampson
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The handwritten note reads: C. Dillon
View of Charles Dillon in his Carlisle football uniform around 1900.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Sosipatra Suvoroff and Irene Suvoroff.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Roan, Raymond Buffalo Meat, and Thomas Perrier.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Solomon Webster wearing uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Pasquala Anderson and Ida Swallow.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Ladeaux.
Note: Previous cataloging indicated the student's name in the hand written caption is George Laden.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Mollie Welsh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
School laundry building with a trolley car parked alongside it. Four trolley conductors are standing beside the car.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A class room with smaller male and female students, some standing and writing on the blackboard. A white female teacher sits at a desk in the front.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student wearing a white dress.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A large group of male students, most not in uniforms, posed, with one white man in the center of the bottom row, standing and sitting in front of one of the school buildings.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as members of the YMCA.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A large group of male students, most not in uniforms, posed, with one white man in the center of the bottom row, standing and sitting in front of one of the school buildings.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as members of the YMCA.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Richard Henry Pratt posed seated at his desk holding a document.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing glasses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Photograph of a photograph of former student Stephen Reuben in a feathered headess with a horse. The photograph is lableled: "Stephen Reuben, Carlisle Student, 4th of July Celebration, Spalding Idaho."
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the school grounds showing the teachers' quarters and the band stand.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students in uniform, posed in a row.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of the football team. In the version of this image in publications, the players are identified: (L to R): Isaac Seneca (Seneca), William G. Thompson (Coach), Thaddeus Redwater (Cheyenne), Martin Wheelock (Oneida), Frank Scott (Seneca), Glenn Scoby "Pop" Warner (Coach), Jonas Metoxen (Oneida), James E. Johnson (Stockbridge), Artie Miller (Stockbrige), Joseph Scholder (Mission), Bemus Pierce (Seneca), Caleb M. Sickles (Oneida), Edwin Smith (Kallam), Frank Hudson (Pueblo), Edward Lowell Rogers (Chippewa).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
A large group of male and female students, some in uniform, posed with at least two white women, presumably teachers, on the steps of a school building. One male student is inside the building looking out a window.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A large group of female students posed on the steps of a school building with one older white woman. Some students in the front row hold a banner that says "YWCA."
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a print of this image (13-15-01).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society