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 Work Together and Brian Early Bird.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of James B. Garcia.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Fire Thunder.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (back row, left to right): Harriet Kyocea, Lydia Harrington, Louie Cornelius, Katie White Bird, and Julia Logan; (front row, left to right): Alice Long Pole, Jennie Black, Nellie Aspenall, and Jennie Conners.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lyman Kennedy wearing partial school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ada Fox Catcher probaby wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of George Fire Thunder.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Cyrus Windy.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Students from the Indian Nurses Corps and medical staff posed on the front of a building. They are identified as being, from left to right: Zippa Metoxen, Rose Howell, Dr. Obadiah G. Given, Alice Seabrook, Barbara Showarumy, Clara Anthony, Katie Metoxen, Lillie Wind, and Boise Bassford. Given, Seabrook, and Anthony were school employees.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank West.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Ouita (left) and Kise Williams (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of eighteen female Pueblo students, all wearing school uniforms. A few are holding dolls. In Choate's 1902 Souvenir 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 seventeen female students, all wearing school uniforms.
The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image, written on the album page, identifies them as being from the Pueblo nation.
In another copy of this image, made by Dickinson College from an original owned by Bob Rowe, the description (see Related Images) there is a typed caption that reads "The same Pueblo girls as seen in the photograph above, six months after arrival at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School." The "photograph above" was taken when they entered in August 1884.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire, all wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Brown and Katie White Bird, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of ten unidentified female students. All are wearing school uniforms; one, a much younger girl, is wearing a white pinafore over her uniform.
Note: In previous cataloging the handwritten caption says the students are from the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (also known as Timber Yellow Robe) wearing school uniform.
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
Studio portrait of Josie Vetter wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Justin Head wearing a large bowler hat.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of George Thomas.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alex Manabove and Little Chief, one wearing a star-shaped pin.
Note: If the interpretation of the handwritten caption is correct, it is not clear who Little Chief is. There was a student named Little Chief, but he left the school in 1880. This photograph may document a later visit of a Cheyenne chief named Little Chief (documented in the student newspaper).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of James Miller.
Note: This is probably James Y. Miller.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Josie Vetter wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society