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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Image of a group of young men posed on a rocky outcropping in a heavily wooded vista. 

The young men look as if they may be Carlisle students. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Photograph of a photograph (tacked to a wooden surface) of students on parade on the school grounds. It is a large group of male students, in a formation of rows, some holding flags, with the band in front, and a student holding an American flag in the lead. Visible in the background are the Hospital, the Disciplinarian's Quarters, and the Small Boys' Quarters. 

There are currently no known prints of this photograph. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative, Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of the Teachers' Quareters with several figures, including a male student and probably a female teacher, posed in front and on the porch. The figure on the far right may be Richard Henry Pratt. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the Dining Hall building. The caption identifies it as the "New Dining Hall." This building was built to replace the original building used as the dining hall when the school opened in 1879. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Students lined up along the road in front of the dining hall, as if in a parade. There are three wagons with horses, students in uniform, including some with instruments. There are two people leading the group, one in full feather headdress. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

View of the Small Boys' Quarters on the school grounds. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-081a and PA-CH2-085b. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A carriage, presumably one made by the students, in front of the band stand on the school grounds.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of teacher Alice M. Seabrook.

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

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 Hope Blue Teeth, Cyrus Windy, Jennie Dubray, and Lizzie Dubray. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center

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. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

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 a visitor to the school, presumably a chief. He is identified on the reverse as Roan Horse from the Apache nation. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's version of this image identifies him as Ai-sia-tiw-me or Comanche John. 

Note: A researcher has indicated that Comanche John was actually Comanche, but that he had run away to Mescalero Apache in 1879.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

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

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

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

Four images of students and staff in the printing office. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Students working in the print shop. 

Note: NAA 73251 (see Related Images) shows the left side of the print shop. NAA 73577 (see Related Images) shows the right side of the print shop. In this image prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop. 

This image, with the caption Printing Office - Interior, appears in The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.: 23rd Year (Carlisle, PA: The School, 1902)  [p. 24].

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Students working in the print shop. 

Note: This image shows the right side of the print shop. NAA 73251 (see Related Images) shows the left side of the print shop. In NAA 73243 (see Related Images) prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Students working in the print shop. 

Note: This image shows the left side of the print shop. NAA 73577 (see Related Images) shows the right side of the print shop. In NAA 73243 (see Related Images) prints of both images are combined to create a panoramic image of the print shop. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of an unidentified male student in school uniform.

 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

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

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