Images

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 instructor Mary Hyde and the Indian School choir, including male and female students in school uniforms.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society assigns a date of April 30, 1884 to their copy of this image. They also identified several students by comparison with other images: Luke Phillips (back row, second from the left), Luther Standing Bear (front row, far left), and Joshua Given (back row, third from left). 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Silas Childers wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Cook, seated, with his daughter, Grace Cook standing at left and Hope Blue Teeth standing at right. Cook has an open photo album in his lap.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Embry Gibson.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of a female student and a male student, both wearing school uniforms, identified in the caption as being a brother and sister from the Laguna nation. 

Based on comparison with other photographs, these are almost certainly Walter and Maria Analla. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Belle Yellow Bear wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Frank Yates wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Clarence White Thunder.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Madge Nason (left) and Bertha Nason (right), both wearing school uniforms.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Bertha and Madge Nason. Chippewas from Minn.

This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has a copy of this image: PA-CH1-086b. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Kish Hawkins (at left), Kias Red Wolf (in center), and Clarence Wolf Face (at right).

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Julia Dorris. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Irene Horse Looking and Henry Horse Looking. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Otto Wells.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of twenty-four female students, many wrapped in plaid shawls or blankets, posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds. 

There may be another student at the far right of the bottom right; if there is, then there are twenty-five students in the picture. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Henry North

This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of a visiting chief. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image. This person is identified as "Apache, N.M." in the album (PA-CH1-092b) and as "Augustine" in BS-CH-004. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of James H. Miller, Jane Vane, an unidentified female student and a visitor, probably a Pueblo chief or family member. 

Note: The male student was previously identified as Benjamin Thomas based on cataloging of the NAA negative. A researcher suggested that he is actually James H. Miller. The identification of Jane Vane comes from an annotation on the Cumberland County Historical Society's album copy. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of eighteen students, eleven male and seven female. The caption identifies them as Miss Coats' class. 

School records show Carrie Coats taught at the school in 1884.  

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Victoria Standing Bear (left) and Martha Bordeaux (right). 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of George Fire Thunder wearing school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Kias Red Wolf (standing at right) and an unidentified male student (at left).

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Candelaria Quintana, Josefeta Montoya, and Jose Maria Perez. All are wearing school uniforms. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio potrait of William Fletcher (standing) and his uncle Old Crow (seated). 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of William Fletcher (standing) and his uncle, Old Crow (seated). Old Crow is wearing a large overcoat.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of John Menual Chaves.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society