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 Justin Shedee (right) and Victor Tozoski (left).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Student nurses and medical staff [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73773.jpg?itok=KoQpsCdR "Student nurses and medical staff [version 1], c.1885")
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
Carlisle Indian School student body 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
![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
Studio portrait of Dana Long Wolf.
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 Joseph Little Brave wearing a school uniform.
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
![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
![Lois Pretty Scalp [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73769.jpg?itok=w4_NHjBT "Lois Pretty Scalp [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Lois Pretty Scalp.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![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
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 Lyman Kennedy wearing partial school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![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
Studio portrait of a visiting chief, three male students, and one white man.
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
![Black Horse and Navajo Jack with D. M. Riordan and Chee Dodge [version 1], c. 1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74298.jpg?itok=rJfu-UPC "Black Horse and Navajo Jack with D. M. Riordan and Chee Dodge [version 1], c. 1885")
Studio portrait of Dennis Matthew Riordan (Navajo agent) and Chee Dodge (Navajo interpreter) with chiefs Black Horse (seated at left) and Navajo Jack (seated at right). Riordan and Chee are identified in the original caption. The identification of the two chiefs was made based on comparison with other images.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Laban Locojim [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74403.jpg?itok=y4swPdrj "Laban Locojim [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Laban Locojim wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
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
![Ten male student printers [version 2], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_bsch034.jpg?itok=Jl5DpvMg "Ten male student printers [version 2], c.1885")
Studio portrait of ten male students in uniform, identified as being "Printer Boys." On one copy of the image they are identified as, left to right: William Butcher, Benajah Miles, Paul Boynton, Richard Davis, Samuel Townsend, Cyrus Fell Star, Chester Cornelius, Benjamin Thomas, Henry North, and Yamie Leeds.
There are no records for a student named Cyrus Fell Star (identified as Sioux). He may be Cyrus Windy.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has at least two copies of this image: BS-CH-034 and CS-CH-079.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Thomas Wistar wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![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
![Stacy Matlock and William Morgan [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74109.jpg?itok=sbyKTmMJ "Stacy Matlock and William Morgan [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock (standing at left) and William Morgan (seated at right), both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Esther Miller [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73630.jpg?itok=gutwMlAM "Esther Miller [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Esther Miller wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Stephen Smith and Randall Delchey [version 1], c.1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74204.jpg?itok=N7sYaQU5 "Stephen Smith and Randall Delchey [version 1], c.1885")
Studio portrait of Stephen Smith and Randall Delchey, one holding a cane.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution