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 Dennison Wheelock (left) and Howard Logan (right), holding hats and wearing uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Stiya Koykuri [?], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_020d.jpg?itok=cjpQPj2t "Stiya Koykuri [?], c.1885")
Studio portrait of a female student, probably Stiya Koykuri.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Etadleuh Doanmoe, Laura Doanmoe, and Martha Napawat [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_007c.jpg?itok=IcKBjo1e "Etadleuh Doanmoe, Laura Doanmoe, and Martha Napawat [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Etadleuh Doanmoe, Laura Doanmoe, and Martha Napawat.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
An unposed photograph of the school grounds showing the school band and other students.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-040b, BS-CH-026, and 10B-05-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Owen Fire and Festus Pelone, both wearing school uniforms and holding straw boater hats.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Joarclores, Arapaho chief [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74461.jpg?itok=6ysm1r0G "Joarclores, Arapaho chief [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Joarclores, an Arapho chief.
Note: The spelling of this person's name is not clear. It could be Joalloas, Joarclores, or Joactoras.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Joarclores, Arapaho chief [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_096b.jpg?itok=pLEcaWb_ "Joarclores, Arapaho chief [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Joarclores, an Arapaho chief.
Note: The caption for this image identifies the sitter only as an Arapaho chief. A name is provided in the National Anthropological Archives glass plate negative (Joalloras) and in another copy of this image from the Cumberland County Historical Society (13A-14-04) where it is either Joarclores or Joactoras. None of these names may be correct.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Etadleuh Doanmoe, Laura Doanmoe, and Martha Napawat [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74027.jpg?itok=nsSrfEsG "Etadleuh Doanmoe, Laura Doanmoe, and Martha Napawat [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Etadleuh Doanmoe, Laura Doanmoe, and Martha Napawat.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of four male students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
Another image of what is probably this student in a different pose is linked to in Related Images.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of five visiting chiefs with five male students and one female student.
Note: The glass plate is broken so that only four chiefs are visible. Previous cataloging indicates that these sitters are from the Arapaho nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.
Another image of what is probably this student in a different pose is linked to in Related Images.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Ai-sia-tiw-me (Comanche John) [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_095b.jpg?itok=UUcztte3 "Ai-sia-tiw-me (Comanche John) [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Ai-sia-tiw-me (Comanche John).
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-095b and 13A-14-03. Their description states that this person was also known as Roan Horse, Apache, but that information is not included with the original caption for the version in the album.
Note: A researcher has indicated that Comanche John was actually Comanche, but that he had run away to Mescalero Apache in 1879.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Seventeen young female Pueblo students [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73332.jpg?itok=lxNK-oYp "Seventeen young female Pueblo students [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of seventeen female Pueblo students, all wearing school uniforms. A few are holding dolls. In Choate's 1902 Souveneir this is identfied as a portrait of Pueblo girls who arrived in 1884.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Meta Atsye and Lora Situwitsuh [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74095.jpg?itok=6j1GUWmh "Meta Atsye and Lora Situwitsuh [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Meta Atsye and Lora Situwitsuh, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Arnold Woolworth and Casper Edson [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_077a.jpg?itok=vwhgfaBb "Arnold Woolworth and Casper Edson [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth (left) and Casper Edson (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student in a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Arnold Woolworth.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections