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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The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: James B. Garcia and Santiago
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
![Norman Casadore [version 1], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74054.jpg?itok=Vf-Mpott "Norman Casadore [version 1], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Norman Casadore.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: John Gunn Pueblo
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
![Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 1], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74379.jpg?itok=oQxb8wdQ "Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 1], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Ernie Black and his sister Jennie Black.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Ernie Black and his Sister.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Patrick Bitter and an unidentified male student, both wearing school uniforms. Bitter is the student on the right.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Norman Casadore [version 2], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_051a.jpg?itok=DJpoboUL "Norman Casadore [version 2], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Norman Casadore.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 2], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-PC-004-f08.jpg?itok=zPpR7wsF "Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 2], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Ernie Black and Jennie Black.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Ernie Black and Sister. Cheyennes from Ind. Ter.
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 Nellie Aspenall probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Frank Conroy.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Seichu Atsye.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Minnie Yellow Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock (seated left), William Morgan (seated right), Frank West (seated center), and Wilkie Sharp, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Seven male students [version 2], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/BS-CH-032_front%20smaller.jpg?itok=yF3X6z3s "Seven male students [version 2], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Luke Phillips, Howard Logan, Frank Lock, Samuel Townsend, Roland Fish, Henry Kendall, and Richard Davis. All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Thirteen male student printers [version 2], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0077.jpg?itok=hpDCdQMF "Thirteen male student printers [version 2], c.1886")
Studio portrait of thirteen male students wearing school uniforms.
The printed note on the reverse side reads: 1. Bennie Thomas, Pueblo Tribe, 2. Lorenzo Martinez, Pueblo, 3. Willie Butcher, Chippewa, 4. C. P. Cornelius, Oneida, 5. Dennison Wheelock, Oneida, 6. Samuel Townsend, Pawnee, 7. Richard Davis, Cheyenne, 8. Howard Logan, Winnebago, 9. Yamie Leeds, Pueblo, 10. Paul Boynton, Arapahoe, 11. John D. Miles, Cheyenne, 12. Benajah Miles, Arapahoe, 13. Joe B. Harris, Gros Ventre.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this image: CS-CH-078.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Edmund Guerrier, Laura Standing Elk, and Julia Bent [version 2], c.1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_067b.jpg?itok=oT0bE_t_ "Edmund Guerrier, Laura Standing Elk, and Julia Bent [version 2], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Edmund Guerrier, Laura Standing Elk, and Julia Bent. Guerrier was an interpreter for the U.S. government.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ernest Hogee (left), Bishop Eatennah (center), and Oswald Smith (right). All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Wilkie Sharp.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-063c and PA-CH1-078e.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Walter Analla (standing at left) and Siceni Nori (seated at right), both wearing school uniforms.
Note: The identification of the students pictured is preliminary.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Ouita.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Levi Levering and Laban Locojim.
Note: This image also contains caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Reuben Wolf and Levi Levering.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Levi Levering.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Hattie Long Wolf (Hattie Porcupine) possibly wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Grace Red Eagle, probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Otto Zotum.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution