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 George Williams wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Harvey Whiteshield [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_012c.jpg?itok=Ngpo48b- "Harvey Whiteshield [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Harvey Whiteshield.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of White Buffalo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Watchman (Saahtlie) wearing school uniform.
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
![Ellwood Wilbeforce (Ellwood Moon) [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_017c.jpg?itok=dxr9E25b "Ellwood Wilbeforce (Ellwood Moon) [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Ellwood Wilbeforce (Ellwood Moon) wearing school uniform.
Note: When this student arrived at the school he was known as Ellwood Moon. His information card notes that he later changed his name to Ellwood Wilbeforce.
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
![Katie Zallawager [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_081b.jpg?itok=U4oKrY-P "Katie Zallawager [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Katie Zallawager.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait captioned as "Pawnee Indian group that entered the Carlisle Indian School in 1882." If that is accurate, then the sitters include: Louis Bayhylle, Frank West, Chalkley Stafford, Abram Platt, Thomas Kester, Bruce Hayman, Henry Eagle Chief, Minnie Topa, and Nellie Aspenall. Those are the nine students from the Pawnee nation who arrived in August 1882. There are four additional students in this image.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-066a and BS-CH-036.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Kent Black Bear and Dana Long Wolf [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73228.jpg?itok=o5vYeE9B "Kent Black Bear and Dana Long Wolf [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Kent Black Bear (seated) and Dana Long Wolf (standing), both holding straw boater hats.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Five Osage students [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_039b.jpg?itok=dl4yTNX_ "Five Osage students [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Josephine Pryor, Metopa, Joel Chetopah, Elmer, and Alice Long Pole. All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of Kent Black Bear in native clothing and feather headdress posed on a horse on the school grounds.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel De Rauza.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-033c and 13-37-02.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Lizzie Day and Katie Day [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_085b.jpg?itok=cgRwXsIm "Lizzie Day and Katie Day [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Elizabeth Day and Katie Day, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Dixon (seated) and Cyrus Dickson (standing), both wearing school uniforms. John is also known as John Dickson and was Cyrus' brother.
Note: CCHS identifies the sitters as Cyrus and John. Identification here is based on contextual information.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Watson Penn, George Summers, Joseph Big Wolf, and a visitor [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_090b.jpg?itok=2_4KPitp "Watson Penn, George Summers, Joseph Big Wolf, and a visitor [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Watson Penn, George Summers, Joseph Big Wolf (seated on the floor in uniform), and a visitor (seated in a chair).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Emily Ross and Ella Ross, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Rosa Dion probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Helen Onion [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73412.jpg?itok=BYLVdn71 "Helen Onion [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Helen Onion wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Helen Onion [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_092c.jpg?itok=vWs0uL-5 "Helen Onion [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Helen Onion wearing school uniform.
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 Joshua Given.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benjamin Damon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Thirteen female Sioux students [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73443.jpg?itok=G0g5gK7Y "Thirteen female Sioux students [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of thirteen female students.
The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image, written on the album page, states they are Sioux students who had entered in November 1882.
Original cataloging for this image interpreted a date of 1894 in the caption written on the plate.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Casper Edson (seated) and an unidentified male student (standing), both wearing school uniforms.
Note: A handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: Casper Edson and [de Beth?].
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution