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 Frank Conroy and Charles Redmore. Both are wearing uniforms and one is holding a rawhide rattle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lois Pretty Scalp [version 3], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/0321.f.0020.jpg?itok=E_mV4EDT "Lois Pretty Scalp [version 3], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Lois Pretty Scalp.
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections also has a copy of this version (CIS-P-0018).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Studio portrait of a male student.
The handwritten caption along the side of the image is difficult to read, but we believe it says: Chester Cornelius and that that is who the sitter is.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait Oscar Bull Bear (seated) and his younger brother Richard Davis.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of a visiting chief with a male student.
Previous cataloging interpreted the name of the student as something like Van Moore. There are no records for a student by that name.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photograph of a photograph of Sun Chief (La-Roo-Chuk-A-La-Shur). The handwritten caption indicates he is from the Pawnee nation.
Photographer J.N. Choate took a photograph of this image, presumably so that he could reproduce it and sell it himself. He may have taken the original, but he might not have. No other copies of this image have yet been found among the Carlisle-related images so it's possible Sun Chief was not a visitor to the school and has no connection to the school.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Rose White Thunder.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Rose White Thunder. Sioux.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this image: PA-CH1-043a.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students, one wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students, one wearing a school uniform.
Previous cataloging has identified at least one of the students as being from the Cheyenne Nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Walter Analla and his sister, Maria Analla, both in school uniforms.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Walter Analla and his sister.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Clay Ainsworth [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73787.jpg?itok=AhDdUYNV "Clay Ainsworth [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Clay Ainsworth.
Handritten caption along the side of the image appears to read: "Clay Ainsworth."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Dana Long Wolf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
The caption reads, in part: ...perelt. The portion of the glass plate containing the first part of the student's name is missing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Frank West [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73792.jpg?itok=pu4gS7xI "Frank West [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Frank West.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Black Horse [?], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74300.jpg?itok=OIGZb0e0 "Black Horse [?], c.1885")
Studio portrait of a Navajo chief, probably Black Horse.
Identification based on identifications made by CCHS on PA-CH1-059b and CS-CH-064.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Laban Locojim [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_082c.jpg?itok=GyNMIucV "Laban Locojim [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Laban Locojim wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Carlisle Indian School student body assembled on the school grounds around 1885, with the superintendent's house in background.
Dickinson College has another copy of this image cataloged as CIS-P-0078.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
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
![Tom Torlino and George S. Watchman [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73548.jpg?itok=riw8F5K- "Tom Torlino and George S. Watchman [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Tom Torlino (seated) and George S. Watchman (standing).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Tom Torlino [version #1], 1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0075.jpg?itok=O70pa1y6 "Tom Torlino [version #1], 1885")
Studio portrait of Tom Torlino.
The reverse side includes a printed list of photographs for sale by John N. Choate.
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has four copies of this print: PA-CH2-004b, 12-26-04, BS-CH-012, and US-50b.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Josie Vetter [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73747.jpg?itok=1q3CEj8i "Josie Vetter [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Josie Vetter wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society