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 Manuelio Choni wearing Native clothes.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Manuelito Choni wearing Native clothing.
This photograph was proabably taken on or very close to Choni's date of arrival, October 21, 1882.
Note: The Cumberland County HIstorical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-004c and 10B-03-03.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of eleven male students and one female student posed in front of the bandstand on the school grounds. Richard Henry Pratt is sitting on the bandstand, behind the group.
The female student, Antoinette Williams, had arrived on December 5, 1881. The male students are a group of male Navajo students who arrived on October 21, 1882. They are: front row, seated, left to right - George Williams, Stailey Norcross, Antoinette Williams, Charles Damon; standing, back row, left to right - Tom Torlino, Manuelito Chiquito, Manuelito Choni, Charlie, John Bitzclay, Francisco, Saahtlie (George Watchman), Benjamin Damon.
There is another version of this photograph (pose 1) in which Tom Torlino, who is standing on the far left here, is seated on the ground at the far left.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of eleven male students and one female students posed in front of the bandstand on the school grounds. Richard Henry Pratt is sitting on the bandstand, behind the group. They are a group of Navajo students who arrived on October 21, 1882.
They are, front row, seated, left to right: George Williams, Stailey Norcross, Antoinette Williams, Charles Damon; standing, back row, left to right: Tom Torlino, Manuelito Chiquito, Manuelito Choni, Charlie, John Bitzclay, Francisco, Saahtlie (George Watchman), Benjamin Damon.
There is another version of this photograph (pose 1) in which Tom Torlino, who is standing on the far left here, is seated on the ground at the far left.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Manuelio Chiquito wearing native clothing.
Note: Chiquito arrived on October 21, 1882 and this photograph was probably taken on that day or very soon after.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-035a and BS-CH-010.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Manuelito Chiquito in native dress.
Note: Chiquito arrived on October 21, 1882 and this photograph was probably taken on that date or very soon after.
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 Helen Onion wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Luther Standing Bear holding a cornet.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Conroy in school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: F. Conroy.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Cheape Ross, also known as Cheapy.
The caption reads: Ross Cheapie
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of thirteen female students. The caption on this album page identifies them as members of the Sioux nation who entered in November 1882.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Stailey Norcross (seated) and an unidentified male student (standing), both wearing school uniforms.
Note: Previous cataloging interpreted the name of the unidentified student as possibly being "Henry Sprane," but there are no records for a student with that name.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of twelve male students, all wearing school uniforms. The caption identifies them as being from the Sioux tribe, Pine Ridge agency and entered in November 1882.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Helen Onion wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Kent Black Bear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of five male students.
The Cumberland County Historical Society identifies this as the "Alfred group," presumably from information scratched on the glass plate.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Luther Standing Bear holding a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Elizabeth Black Moon probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Phillips Bob Tail. A handwritten caption written along the side of the image probably reads: Philips Bobtail.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Katie Zallawager.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of three unidentified male Pueblo students with teacher Lora B. Shields.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Laura Standing Elk.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martha Bordeaux.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of seven male Cheyenne students. One is wearing a school uniform. White Buffalo is seated at the far left; the rest are unidentified.
A researcher has identified the person standing in the last row behind White Buffalo as Kise Williams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
