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 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 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
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
Studio portrait of two female students.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections
Studio portrait of August Kensler, who served as quartermaster and storekeeper at the school.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of school's Gymnasium building.
Format: Lantern Slide
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 the school's Gymnasium.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
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 Charlotte (here Lottie) Harris.
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
Studio portrait of Julio Fernandez wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Pradt and Zenobia Garcia.
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 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 Raleigh Jackson (left) and Elijah Wheelock (right), both wearing school uniforms.
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 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 Maud Snyder.
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 Hattie Acklin.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Laura Ammon.
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 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