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 Sowcea Kinery [?] and Samuel Keryte, both wearing school uniforms. Keryte is definitely the student standing at right.
Note: The identification of Kinery is a guess based on interpreting the handwritten caption, and the fact that he arrived on the same day as Keryte. Kinery was 14 at arrival and Keryte was 16.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
The handwritten caption on this glass plate clearly says Chief Big Bow 10/88. However this is not Chief Big Bow, who is captured in other photos. The relationship of the caption to this student is not known.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Mae Paisano and her brother, Willie H. Paisano, both are 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: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nancy McIntosh.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Nancy McIntosh
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 Joseph Schweigman.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Joseph Schweigman
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
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: John Dixon.
Dixon was also known as John Dickson.
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 Fred Big Horse and Noble Prentis.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified male 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 George Fire Thunder.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Everett in school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Laban Locojim wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Roland Fish (seated at left), Jonas Place, and an unidentified young man. Fish is in a school uniform.
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
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: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Pueblo boys. James H. Miller. by his Brother Francis H. Ortiz. Indian Training School. Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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 male student wearing school uniform.
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 an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.
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 an unidentified male student wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Meta Atsye and Lora Situwitsuh.
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
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