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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![Fifteen Sioux male students [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_037b.jpg?itok=OkATNprs "Fifteen Sioux male students [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of fifteen male students wearing school uniforms. They are identified in the caption as being from the Rosebud Sioux agency and having arrived in November 1882.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Twelve Sioux male students [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_038b.jpg?itok=y1C9xGGA "Twelve Sioux male students [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of twelve male students, all wearing school uniforms. The caption says that they were from the Sioux tribe, the Pine Ridge agency and entered in November 1882.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Ellwood Wilbeforce (Ellwood Moon) [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74013.jpg?itok=WI44ulE5 "Ellwood Wilbeforce (Ellwood Moon) [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Ellwood Wilbeforce (Ellwood Moon) wearing school uniform.
Note: When this student arrived he was known as Ellwood Moon. His information card notes that he later changed his name to Ellwood Wilbeforce.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![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 Joel Tyndall wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Susie Martinez holding a doll [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73696.jpg?itok=2-IunpS4 "Susie Martinez holding a doll [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Susie Martinez wearing school uniform, holding a doll and a large hat.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Bertram Mitchell and Clarence White Thunder (here Big White Thunder), both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![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
![Harvey Whiteshield [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73891.jpg?itok=G5ltb3eF "Harvey Whiteshield [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Harvey Whiteshield.
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
![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
![Red Cloud with Agent Townsend and a male student [version 2], 1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch050.jpg?itok=hnHIc7ZY "Red Cloud with Agent Townsend and a male student [version 2], 1883")
Studio portrait of Red Cloud, a Sioux chief, with Special Agent Townsend and an unidentified male student.
The school newspapers reported a visit to the school by Red Cloud and Agent Townsend in January 1883.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Luther Standing Bear with cornet [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73418.jpg?itok=rqN7HpXA "Luther Standing Bear with cornet [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Luther Standing Bear holding a cornet.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Three male Pueblo students with Miss Shields [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73461.jpg?itok=VVkIRiOU "Three male Pueblo students with Miss Shields [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of three unidentified male Pueblo students with teacher Lora B. Shields.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Twelve Sioux male students [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73341.jpg?itok=I3dMM7vU "Twelve Sioux male students [version 1], c.1883")
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 Max Spotted Tail wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![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 Jessie Spread Hands.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Five Osage students [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/73822.jpg?itok=NqIovqnp "Five Osage students [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Josephine Pryor, Metopa, Joel Chetopah, Elmer, and Alice Long Pole. All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Harry Shirley [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_074c.jpg?itok=FJ5Yj8v7 "Harry Shirley [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Harry Shirley wearing school uniform.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-074c and 13-28-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mack Kutepi wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Luther Standing Bear with cornet [version 2], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_006b.jpg?itok=PSUiI1C9 "Luther Standing Bear with cornet [version 2], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Luther Standing Bear holding a cornet.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Gail Marko [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74190.jpg?itok=23R80dYX "Gail Marko [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of Gail Marko.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Fifteen Sioux male students [version 1], c.1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73457.jpg?itok=J76pId_1 "Fifteen Sioux male students [version 1], c.1883")
Studio portrait of fifteen male students wearing school uniforms.
Previous cataloging for this image identifies the students as being from the Pine Ridge reservation. However the caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society version of the image has a caption that says they are from the Rosbud agency and arrived in November 1882.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution