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 a female student, probably Stiya Koykuri.

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 Meta Atsye and Lora Situwitsuh, both probably 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

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

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: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Owen Fire and Festus Pelone, both wearing school uniforms and holding straw boater hats. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Clarence Powder Face. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Lois Pretty Scalp.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

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 Good Chief, a Pawnee chief. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Joseph Schweigman and Frank Conroy, both wearing school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Joseph Schweigman and an unidentified young man. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Mildred Sikkieh wearing school uniform, holding a straw hat. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Stephen Smith and Randall Delchey, one holding a cane. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of the tailor shop showing students working with an instructor.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-086a and BS-CH-047. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of a Joactoras, a visiting Arapaho chief. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

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

A handwritten caption identifies this student as "Nephew of Red Cloud, Sioux." We have unable to verify which student this might have been. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

The guard house with a figure standing in the central doorway. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Existing building (the South Barracks) used as the first school building. Students are posed on the balconies and lined up to enter the building. A sign attached at the near end of the building reads "Schoolrooms." 

This building was demolished in July 1888 and replaced with a new building for the same purpose.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-002, 10A-C-02, and 12-08-03. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the dining hall at the school, all tables filled by students. Male and female students are seated on opposite sides of the tables. There are a few adult white people standing at right. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of teacher Emma A. Cutter. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

Studio portrait of teacher Vincentine T. Booth. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

Formation of students on the northeastern end of the school grounds, near the enclosing fence with a farm in the distance. They are all male students in uniform, in rows with the band in the front. The location seems to be roughly where the athletic field was later laid out, to the east of the industrial workshops.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society