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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Photograph of a photograph of five male students in track clothing, posed outside, holding a banner from the "University of Pennsylvania 9th Annual Relay Races, 1903" with the participating teams listed.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Daniel Eagle in a uniform posed with a large drum and a cymbal.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Truman Doxtator in a uniform posed with a drum and timpani.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Oliver Exendine in a uniform holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Spencer Williams in a uniform with a trombone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of George Willard in a uniform posed holding a bassoon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Phineas Wheelock in a uniform posed holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Elijah Wheelock in a uniform posed holding a trombone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Alfred M. Venne in a uniform and holding a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Daniel Tortuga wearing a uniform and holding a saxophone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Eugene Tibbetts wearing a uniform and holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Peter Chatfield in a uniform holding a trombone.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Junaluska (here Juna) Standingdeer in a uniform holding a French horn.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Fitzhugh Lee Smith in a uniform and holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Sewing instructor Elizabeth Searight posed outdoors with twelve female students wearing school uniforms.
Searight worked at the school from roughtly 1901 to 1915.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John F. Susep in a uniform holding a tuba.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Louis F. Bear in a uniform holding a tuba.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Manuel ("Mannie") Bender in a uniform posed with a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Tiffany Bender wearing a uniform holding a brass instrument.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Samuel Brushel in a uniform with a French horn.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Photograph of a studio portrait of a large group of male and female students. At least one person, a male student, appears to have been added to the photograph after it was taken. The handwritten caption seems to say "Class 1903."
The National Anthropological Archives has two versions of this image, both photographs of a photograph: NAA 73661; Photo Lot 81-12 06843500 and NAA 73663; Photo Lot 81-12 06843700.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Ambrose Stone wearing a uniform and holding a clarinet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
Studio portrait of Monroe Coulon in a uniform holding a French horn.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
A composite collection of individual portraits of the school band's members, each posed with their instrument. The only person identified is the Band Master, James Riley Wheelock.
Note: The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center has prints of the photographs of the individual students with identification. These are now posted on this site.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Oscar Davis in a uniform holding a bassoon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center