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 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: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Eben Beads.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Stephen Smith and Randall Delchey, one holding a cane.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The handwritten note reads: Ralph Brown age 17 years
Ralph Brown was Eliza Bell Brown's husband.
Format: Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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
Studio portrait of George Fire Thunder.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of a group of female students posed on the steps of a school building. There are nine people in the group. Eight of them are definitely students. The ninth, seated in the chair at left right, may be a student or a teacher.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Etadleuh Doanmoe.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Etadleuh.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of seventeen female students, all wearing school uniforms. The caption 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: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nellie Robertson, Etta Robertson, and Adelia Lowe, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Good Chief, a Pawnee chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Two unidentified male students in school uniforms.
This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Nancy McIntosh.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Esther Miller.
This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Candelaria Quintana.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Major D.M. 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
Studio portrait of Mae Paisano and her brother, Willie H. Paisano, both wearing school uniforms.
Note: Although the school documents consistently use the incorrect spelling "May," family members have indicated that her name was properly spelled "Mae."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Baird wearing a uniform.
Note: This image also contains partial caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The printed caption reads: ETADLEUH DOANMOE, KIOWA. Taken prisoner in 1875 and sent to Ft. Marion, Fla.; was released in /1878; spent one year at Hampton Institute, Va.; entered Carlisle 1879. In 1882 married Tone-adle-mah, an educated girl of his own tribe, and reentered to the Indian Territory. Served as Helper in the School an Interpreter. In 1888 was appointed by the Presbyterian Board as a missionary among the Kiowas, but died soon after, having lived an exemplary life and exerted a good influence ence among his associates.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
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 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 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