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 West.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of three unidentified male students in school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of three unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 three unidentified male students.
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 Esther Miller wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of six unidentified male students wearing school uniforms.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image identifies them as being from the Crow nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of six unidentified male students in school uniforms.
The caption identifies them as being from the Crow nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of seven Crow students.
The male student in the back left may be George Thomas, and the student in the back right appears to be Charles Fisher. The young woman seated second from the left seems to be Persis Big Hair, and on the far right is Lois Pretty Scalp.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
Copy of a photograph of a studio portrait of five Native American chiefs.
Previous cataloging indicates these people are from the Arapaho nation.
This may be a copy of a photograph taken by Choate of chiefs who visisted Carlisle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photograph, Reproduction
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of a visiting chief with three male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.
Previous cataloging has identified at least one of them as Cheyenne.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 five visiting chiefs with ten male students.
The handwritten caption probably indicates these are Cheyenne chiefs.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of five visiting chiefs and ten female students.
The handwritten caption indicates these are Cheyenne chiefs.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of a visiting chief, three male students, and one white man.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Hoo-sa-tau-lus [?], an Apache chief.
Note: There is no original caption for this photograph. This identification was provided by an unknown source at the Cumberland County Historical Society.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students, each holding a hat.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Embry Gibson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Young Bull Bear, a Cheyenne chief, with his brothers Oscar Bull Bear (left) and Richard Davis.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students, each holding a hat.
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
