Images

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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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.

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

Studio portrait of James Browndog around 1901.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Studio portrait of August Kensler, who served as quartermaster and storekeeper at the school.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of seventeen unidentified male students and eleven unidentified female students with two white men and one white women posed outside on the school grounds. 

Previous cataloging describes the caption as saying that these are students from New York and the date is 1901. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of school's Gymnasium building. 

Format: Lantern Slide

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of two female students.

Format: Postcard

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

View of the school's Gymnasium.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Raleigh Jackson (left) and Elijah Wheelock (right), both wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Maud Snyder.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Hattie Acklin. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A large group of male and female students posed on the school grounds.

This image, with the caption PORTO RICAN GROUP, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902) [p. 99].

This image is a later print made by the Cumberland County Historical Society from an unidentified source. 

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Laura Ammon.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Charles Bent. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Anna Buck and Cooki Glook. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of James Browndog. A handwritten caption written along the side of the image probably reads: James Brown Dog.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The caption reads: THE FAMOUS INDIAN BAND OF 1901.

This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Mr. Terrance with two male students and seven female students. The caption identifies Terrance and that the students were from the Mohawk nation. 

There is a Mr. Terrance mentioned in the student newspapers as being from the Mohawk nation and having three children of his own at the school. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Julio Fernandez wearing school uniform. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Howard E. Gansworth. This photo was scanned from a program for a dinner held by the Carlisle Indian School Alumni Association held on April 2, 1908. It is not clear when this photo was taken. 

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Mary Pradt and Zenobia Garcia.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The headline reads: Many Indians in the City; Adopt White Man's Ways

The first caption reads: Frank A. Kennedy, Seneca, Who Has Become an Automobile Expert.

The second caption reads: Ezra L. Jacobs of Brooklyn, A Seneca Indian and Descendant of Chief Cornplanter, Who Has Served in the Regular Army and Seen Phillippine Service.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Studio portrait of Charlotte (here Lottie) Harris.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Mabel Greely. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio potrait of Johnson Owl.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society