Images

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 male student.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student in a school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.

Another image of what is probably this student in a different pose is linked to in Related Images.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform. 

Another image of what is probably this student in a different pose is linked to in Related Images.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

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 an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform. 

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 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

Studio portrait of Eben Beads.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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 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: 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 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 an unidentified male student wearing a uniform, probably a band uniform. 

Note: The handwritten caption is difficult to read. The first name appears to be "Phillip." 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Jame Black Hawk.

Handwritten caption along side of image probably reads: James Black Hawk

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 an unidentified female student. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portratit of an unidentified female student.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.

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 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 an unidentified female student.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Clay Ainsworth.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society