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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Group portrait of eighteen male students, dressed similarly and wearing baseball caps, one posed with a bat, taken on the school grounds.
This is probably one of the many teams that played each other within the 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
View of the campus grounds with the band stand and people, possibly visitors.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of nineteen students, some in native clothing, probably taken upon arrival on the school grounds. In the back row at the far right is a male student in school uniform.
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
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
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student. The handwritten caption contains a name that could be Schenandore or Skenandore.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student. The name in the handwritten caption looks like Parnell but there is no student with a name similar to that from the time this image was taken.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
View of the chapel with added bell tower over front door but before additions were put on the sides. Three male students, one in uniform, are posed in front of the building.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The girls' quarters with female students on the porches, with the bandstand at right and the hospital building visible between them.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The girls' quarters with female students visible on the porches, with the bandstand at right and the hospital building visible between them.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-058B and 10A-C-03.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of one male student wearing school uniform with four female students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (back row, left to right): Harriet Kyocea, Lydia Harrington, Louie Cornelius, Katie White Bird, and Julia Logan; (front row, left to right): Alice Long Pole, Jennie Black, Nellie Aspenall, and Jennie Conners.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified male students and three unidentified female students. The seated male student has been identified as Lot Eyelash.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
View of male studens in uniform practicing drilling on the grounds in front of the Large Boys' Quarters.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Four identified male students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of five male students.
There is a copy of this image at the Army Heritage Education Center in which the sitters are identified as (L to R): Percy Zadoka, Frank Everett, John Tatum, Harry Shirley, and Hortie Stevens.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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's copy of this image has the caption Campus After School.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Interior of the school chapel. The ivy decorations may indicate this photograph was taken around the holidays.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
View of the chapel with added bell tower over front door but before the additons were put on the sides.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
Studio portrait of Eustace Pelone.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates part of the handwritten caption on the image says "March 1885."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Phillip White (Phillips Bob Tail).
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date April 1885.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
