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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Male students posed working at machines and standing at tables in the shoe shop.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Male and female students posed in a wood working classroom with a white female teacher. On the blackboard at the back of the room the word "Sloyd" is visible, indicating that this was a Sloyd classroom.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
An empty schoolroom with a teacher's desk and students desks. This is identified in a label as a "Normal School Room."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of a large group of male and female students with white teachers. The Cumberland County Historical Society identifies this as the school's choir.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A view of the central campus with female students in the background and a young male student in the foreground.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's description states the label on this image is "Girls at Play."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Large group of male students lined up both in front of and behind the school's fire engine on a path with the Girls' Quarters in the background. Female students are standing on the lawn and on the porches of the building.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Female students posed standing at ironing boards in a room with a large cast iron stove in the center, holding irons, and drying racks.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Interior of school dining room with tables set for a meal. Female student workers are standing at the ends of the tables around the perimeter of the room.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the central campus with the Bandstand, the Girls' Quarters, and the Teacher's Quarters with snow-covered grounds.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View taken from the center of campus showing the Girls' Quarters and the Bandstand, with female students on the grounds.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of a corner in a girl's room, with a large window flanked with a bookcase and a bureau.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Several younger male students wearing uniforms posed reading newspapers at a table with many piles of newspapers--the Reading Room in the Small Boys' Quarters.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two male students wearing uniforms seated at either side of a table in a student's bedroom.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of a snowy campus with a man near the flag pole on a path cleared from the Girls' Quarters to the pole. The Girls' Quarters is in the background.
The image is somewhat damaged.
Format: Lantern Slide
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."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
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
Six male students posed in front of the bakery building, some carrying trays of bread.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
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
Group portrait of thirty-seven women, presumably all female students, wearing large hats, posed on the school grounds in front of the flag pole.
This portrait may have taken as they were gathered to return home (a "home party").
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of five female students and two male students (in uniform) posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging for this image identifies them as "teachers," so they may be student teachers.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Younger male and female students posed sitting at desks in what a label identifies as a "Normal Room."
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students in uniform, posed in a row.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society