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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Studio portrait of Harry Marmon wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studi portrait of two unidentified male students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
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
![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
![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
![Thomas Wistar [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch022.jpg?itok=l2tMx6lg "Thomas Wistar [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Thomas Wistar wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Peliza, Paul Big Horse, and Edward Chouteau [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-MC-005-f38.jpg?itok=YEp5VxLY "Peliza, Paul Big Horse, and Edward Chouteau [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Peliza, Paul Big Horse, and Edward Chouteau, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Elmer wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_069a.jpg?itok=ra3umS8u "Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Engler.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of a Native American man, probably a visiting chief, with two male students in school uniforms.
Previous cataloging interprets part of the handwritten caption as being the name "Bruer." There are no students with that name.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Cyrus Windy (standing), Samuel Townsend (seated at left), and Luke Phillips (seated at right), all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer [version 1], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73386.jpg?itok=egLWpyR- "Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer [version 1], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Phillips White (Phillips Bob Tail) [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_089a.jpg?itok=HJvMpy2n "Phillips White (Phillips Bob Tail) [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Phillips White (Phillips Bob Tail).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joshua Given (seated left), Luther Standing Bear (senter), and an unidentified male student, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Otto Zotoum [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_038c.jpg?itok=cCpEix_7 "Otto Zotoum [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of Otto Zotoum wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ernie Black.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Five young female Osage students [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_040a.jpg?itok=O6bDP4nd "Five young female Osage students [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of five young female students, all wearing school uniforms with white pinafores. They are Alice Long Pole, Julia Pryor, Metopa, Josephine Pryor, and Myrtie Tallchief.
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 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
![Ten Omaha male students [version 2], c.1882](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_043b.jpg?itok=b2nfrbJB "Ten Omaha male students [version 2], c.1882")
Studio portrait of ten male students, all wearing school uniforms. The caption identifies them as being from the Omaha nation and arriveiving in August 1882.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-043b and PA-CH2-013a.
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: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![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
Studio portrait of Standing Bear, a Sioux chief, with his son Luther Standing Bear, and Red Fish, another Sioux chief.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: 1 Standing Bear, 2 Standing Bear’s Son Luther, 3 Red Fish. Sioux.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![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 White Buffalo.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: White Buffalo. Cheyenne.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this image: PA-CH2-092b.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections