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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![Baptiste Bayhylle and his son Louis Bayhylle [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_001a.jpg?itok=Z1vAwaqm "Baptiste Bayhylle and his son Louis Bayhylle [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Baptiste Bayhylle and his son Louis Bayhylle. Louis is in a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of seven unidentified male students and five unidentified female students with a white woman, presumably a teacher.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Samuel Scott.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-029d and 13-29-02.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Louis Bighorse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of ten unidentified male students wearing school uniforms.
Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Omaha nation.
Twenty male Omaha students arrived in August of 1882. A portrait of ten of them was taken and identified as such (see Related Images), so it is possible that this group is the other ten students who arrived at that time.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73794.jpg?itok=8LLlzJ71 "Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Rachel Checote [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_090c.jpg?itok=xrPBKZ1O "Rachel Checote [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Rachel Checote possibly wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth and three unidentified male students, all in school uniforms. Woolworth is standing at the left in the back row. Based on other photographs, Theodore North may be the student sitting in the right of the front row.
There is an almost undecipherable handwritten caption along the side of the image, which reads in part: Arnold.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Tivis.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students in school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Elmer wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Michael Burns.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Carl Matches [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74323.jpg?itok=2WUBJ00C "Carl Matches [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Carl Matches wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Engler.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Benjamin Marshall [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73528.jpg?itok=dtOblE7V "Benjamin Marshall [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Benjamin Marshall.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Daniel Milk.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Casper Edson wearing school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: Casper Edson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_091a.jpg?itok=xOUBZkpP "Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Frank Engler, William Fletcher, and Carl Matches, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of six unidentified young male students in school uniforms posed around a studio prop of a window with teacher Miss Shiverick.
School records show Harriet Hyde Shiverick was Matron of Boys from 1881 to 1882.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Ten Omaha male students [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73333.jpg?itok=1KA6lZjr "Ten Omaha male students [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of ten male students all wearing school uniforms. The caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this image states they came from the Omaha nation and arrived in August 1882.
Records show twenty male students from the Omaha nation arriving at this time. It is possible that the other ten are the sitters in another image from the National Anthropological Archives (NAA_74310; Photo Lot 81-12 06908100).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Emily Ross and Ella Ross [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_003a.jpg?itok=-jzHpwE3 "Emily Ross and Ella Ross [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Emily Ross and Ella Ross both wearing white pinafores over dark dresses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![George Baker [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74400.jpg?itok=8Om9-iys "George Baker [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of George Baker wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
This caption reads: TOM TORLINO – NAVAJO. AS HE ENTERED THE SCHOOL IN 1882. AS HE APPEARED THREE YEARS LATER.
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 Jennie Conners probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alexander McNac.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society