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 four unidentified male students in school uniforms and two unidentified female students in school-issued clothing.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of three male students in school uniforms, identified as the "Little Bear group."

The caption read: Little Bear Group

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of two unidentified male students.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

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 an unidentified female student.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portait 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 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 Harvey Townsend and Benjamin Thomas, both wearing school uniforms.

The caption reads: H. Townsend + B. Thomas

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.

The caption reads, in part: ...perelt. The portion of the glass plate containing the first part of the student's name is missing.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Samuel Townsend wearing school uniform.

The caption reads: Samuel Townsend

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

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 Candelaria Quintana.

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 four male students wearing school uniforms. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

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 seventeen female Pueblo students, all wearing school uniforms. A few are holding dolls. In Choate's 1902 Souveneir 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 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