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 eighteen young female Pueblo students, all wearing school uniforms. A few are holding dolls.
The handwritten note reads: Group of girl students at Indian School. Carlisle, Pa.
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this image: BS-CH-043.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students in school uniforms with a unidentified white woman, presumably a teacher.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Little Wolf, a visiting chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-077c and BS-CH-002.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Tom Torlino (seated) and George S. Watchman (standing).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students and two unidentified female students.
Previous cataloging indicates they are from the Winnebago nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified female 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 Sharp Nose, an Arapaho chief.
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 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
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Cyrus, Sioux.
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.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this image: PA-CH1-059c.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Roland Fish, Hiram Doctor, and Owen Fire, all wearing school uniform.
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 the school grounds with a few students, showing the back of the teachers' quarters, the band stand, and the girls' quarters.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of a large group of people, including band members and visitors, posed in a line in front of the band stand on the school grounds.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two men, seated in the center, wearing hats and white scarves, probably visitors, with five male students (one wearing a uniform), and a young girl.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Male students, one standing in front behind a desk, several others in the front seated, with rows of chairs with seated students facing them, posed at a meeting of one of the debating societies.
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
View of a students wearing uniforms seated at desks in a classroom with a white female teacher and some students near the board at the front of the room.
The caption identifies this as Miss Cutter's classroom. School records show Emma Cutter taught at the school from 1881 to 1896.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of students in uniforms seated at desks in a classroom.
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
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
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 five male students, identified as (L to R): Percy Zadoka, Frank Everett, John Tatum, Harry Shirley, and Hortie Stevens.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
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
White instructor in center, male students working at benches in the harness making shop.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-089c and BS-CH-046.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society