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 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 two unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait Oscar Bull Bear (seated) and his younger brother Richard Davis.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of four unidentified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Almarine McKellop.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Dana Long Wolf.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Clay Ainsworth.
Handritten caption along the side of the image appears to read: "Clay Ainsworth."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Walter Analla and his sister, Maria Analla, both in school uniforms.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Walter Analla and his sister.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students, one wearing a school uniform.
Previous cataloging has identified at least one of the students as being from the Cheyenne Nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students, one wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of seven male students with one white boy. The caption for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image identifies the white boy as John Nisley. Cumberland County Historical Society cataloging identifies the students as being from the Crow Nation. Richard Wallace is standing in the center, and George Thomas is standing on the right.
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 an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Students in the shoe shop with white instructor standing in rear of the room.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-087e and BS-CH-048.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of teacher Alice M. Seabrook.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students in uniforms seated at rows of desks in a school room with a white female teacher. Some students are standing in front by the chalk boards.
The caption identifies this as Miss Fisher's class room. School records indicate Elspeth (or Effie) Fisher taught at the school from 1881 to 1892.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two male students in uniforms with two older men and two women, presumably their parents or relatives.
Previous cataloging from the National Anthropological Archives had interpreted the handwritten caption as reading "Thomas Dummick and Joseph St. Clair" and had identified all the sitters as "non-native." However, these do appear to be students in their school uniforms and there is no apparent reason not to think that they are Indian students and these are their families.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a female teacher in the front of the room. One male student is standing at the blackboard next to a drawing of a horse.
Previous cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image indicates the caption written on this image identifies this as Miss Booth's classroom. School records indicate Vicentine Booth taught at the school between 1881 and 1889.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of teacher Lavinia Bender.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
A view of students on the school grounds, some are in uniform, some are not. The male students are in the foreground, female students are in the distance. Some of the male students are standing, some are lying on the ground.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-082a, BS-CH-053, and 12-07-02G. One copy (PA-CH1-082a) has the caption Campus After School.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A view of students on the school grounds, some are in uniform, some are not. The male students are in the foreground, female students are in the distance. Some of the male students are standing, some are lying on the ground.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image has the caption Campus After School.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a female teacher in the front of the room. One male student is standing at the blackboard next to a drawing of a horse.
Previous cataloging indicates the caption written on this image identifies this as Miss Booth's classroom. School records indicate Vicentine Booth taught at the school between 1881 and 1889.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of school clerk Samuel H. Gould,.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
