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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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
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
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
View of a corner of a room of a female student. A table or desk is covered with many framed photographs. There is a framed photograph of the school band hanging above the desk and there's another photograph, probably also of Carlisle students, sitting on a chair.
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."
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
View looking north of what is presumably the entire student body assembled in neat rows on the central campus. Groups of spectators, probably teachers and staff, are standing or sitting around the nearby buildings.
This glass negative appears with a collection of other negatives attributed to photographer M. J. Hoover, but he most likely either made a fresh copy from the original negative, or else he simply acquired the original negative and incorporated into his own collection since the image definitely dates from a time before he was operating as a photographer in the town of Carlisle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of seventeen male students in uniform posed with one white man.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio photograph of an unidentified male student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
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
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
Two male students posed working at laying bricks in a wall in a shop building.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Six male students in uniform, posed in a row.
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."
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
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
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
Richard Henry Pratt posed seated at his desk holding a document.
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: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of five male students and four female students posed on the steps of the court house (now known as the Old Court House) with one white man and one white woman, presumably teachers.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
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
Portrait of a large group of male and female students with a white woman posed on the school grounds.
In the front row of standing students, the third person from the left has been identified as Edwin Smith, and James E. Johnson is believed to be in the back right corner.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Posed studio photograph of the graduating class of 1900. They are identified as: 1. Abraham, David, 2. Allen, John, 3. Silverheels, Kittie, 4. Anderson, Pasquala, 5. Harris, Fannie, 6. Beale, Frank, 7. Lane, Constance, 8. Corson, Charles, 9. McCarthy, Alice, 10. Wolfe, Mary, 11. Horn, Jacob, 12. Jones, Guy, 13. Clarke, Amelia, 14. Poodry, Rose, 15. Lufkins, John, 16. Barada, Mary, 17. Miller, Artie, 18. Murdock, Wesson, 19. Kennedy, Sarah, 20. Pierce, Nettie, 21. Roberts, Charles, 22. Scholder, Joseph, 23. Seneca, Isaac, 24. Ryan, Mamie, 25. Doctor, Daisy, 26. Teeple, John, 27. Teeple, Frank, 28. Smith, Eliza, 29. Warren, John B., 30. Welch, George, 31. Turkey, Jennie, 32. Ferris, Lillian, 33. Yupe, Susie, 34. Pierce, Bertha, 35. Muscoe, George, 36. Isaacs, Abram, 37. Cornelius, Nancy O.
Note: Although Eliza Smith's name is on the label for this photograph, the number next to her is not written next to anyone in the photograph. Other documentation also indicates that she actually graduated in 1899.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the school's Gymnasium.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society