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 Benjamin Thomas (standing at left), Mary Perry (seated in center), and John Menaul Chaves (seated at right). The two boys are both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Raymond Stewart.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Luther Standing Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lizzie Walton, probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ernest (Knocks Off) wearing school uniform.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-017a and CS-CH-019.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of (back row, left to right): David (Kills Without Wounding), Nathan (Ear), Pollock Spotted Tail; and (front row, left to right): Marshall (Marshall Bad Milk), and Hugh (Running Horse). All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of eleven unidentified male students in school uniforms.
Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Arapaho nation, and the version of this image in Princeton's collection identifies them as being Northern Arapaho.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise, both wearing school-issued print dresses.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of John Primaux.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ruth (Looking Woman), Hattie Long Wolf, Anna Laura, Grace Cook, and Stella Berht.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Red Shirt, a Sioux chief.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Sheldon Jackson (left), Harvey Townsend (center), and John Shields (right), all wearing native clothing.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Marcus Poko (standing right) and an unidentified male student, both wearing school uniforms.
The unidentified student had previously been tentatively identified as Otto Wells, but based on other photos of Wells it does not appear to be him. A copy of this image was sent to the Army Heritage Education Center with the two students identified as "Markis Poko and John Buckiman." There is no student at Carlisle with a name similar to John Buckiman.
Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Benjamin Thomas (standing at left), Mary Perry (seated in center), and John Menaul Chaves (standing at right). The boys are both wearing school uniforms. Perry is in a school-issued print dress.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of visiting chief Little Raven with his daughter, student Anna Raven.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Chief Big Horse and his son, Hubbell Big Horse. Chief Big Horse wears traditional clothes and Hubbell is in a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Iron Wing, a Sioux chief.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has multiple copies of this image: PA-CH1-011b and CS-CH-036.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Students Samuel High Bear and Guy (Bear Don't Scare) working at the bakery. This is a posed photo of them loading loaves of bread on a wheelbarrow outside the bakery.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-084c and CS-CH-099.1-.3.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Walter Matches.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of chiefs Brother-to-All, Like the Bear, Poor Wolf (also known as Lean Wolf), Son of the Star, and American Horse posed with interpreters John Bridgeman and John Smith, standing in front of the bandstand on the school grounds.
Note: The other version of this image (Related Images), is the uncropped version which also has Richard Henry Pratt in the background.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has also a copy of this image: CS-CH-089.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Portrait of six visiting Sioux leaders posed in front of the bandstand on the school grounds. The title given to the image was "Sioux chiefs at the Carlisle Indian School," and they are identified as Joseph Cook, Medicine Bull, Philip Deloria, David Tatiyopa, Eli Abraham, and Pretty Youngest Child.
This is #13 on photographer J.N. Choate's list of photographs available for sale, published in 1881.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) wearing native dress.
Note: This is an example of Choate taking a photograph of another photograph. Previous cataloging says she is wearing an elk-tooth dress, blanket, and dentalium shell earrings.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of three male students and two female students posed with a white woman. The caption identifies them as "Miss Spencer and class." School records list Miss Spencer as an "Industrial Teacher" who was employed in 1880. This image is #36 on the list of Choate photos for sale published in 1881.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) wearing native dress.
There is a caption written by Mrs. Richard Henry Pratt: "She was given my name (Anna Laura) by her own request. Grand daughter of Spotted Tail, Chief, Sioux."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: 12-17-01, 12-17-01A, and PA-CH1-065b.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Justine La Framboise.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

![Benjamin Thomas, Mary Perry, and John Menaul Chaves [version 1], c.1880 Benjamin Thomas, Mary Perry, and John Menaul Chaves [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73235.jpg?itok=EkaJaYcY) 
 
 
 
![Ernest (Knocks Off) [version 2], c.1880 Ernest (Knocks Off) [version 2], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_017a.jpg?itok=i2kDj7nF) 
![Five young male Sioux students [version 1], c.1880 Five young male Sioux students [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73375.jpg?itok=8tYIYK7r) 
![Eleven male Northern Arapaho students [version 1], c.1880 Eleven male Northern Arapaho students [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74284.jpg?itok=5DNA9R_p) 
![Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise [version 1], c.1880 Nancy Renville and Justine La Framboise [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74254.jpg?itok=D7Ji0IWq) 
 
![Five Sioux girls [version 1], c.1880 Five Sioux girls [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74321.jpg?itok=PIuYO9fI) 
![Red Shirt [version 1], c.1880 Red Shirt [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73697.jpg?itok=fAy4uySc) 
![Sheldon Jackson, Harvey Townsend, and John Shields [version 1], c.1880 Sheldon Jackson, Harvey Townsend, and John Shields [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73447.jpg?itok=Ipgh7A_S) 
 
![Benjamin Thomas, Mary Perry, and John Menaul Chaves [version 2], c.1880 Benjamin Thomas, Mary Perry, and John Menaul Chaves [version 2], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_csch052.jpg?itok=zwTDxNg3) 
 
![Chief Big Horse and Hubbell Big Horse [version 1], c.1880 Chief Big Horse and Hubbell Big Horse [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_028b.jpg?itok=0xjYClsV) 
 
 
![Walter Matches [version 1], c.1880 Walter Matches [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73315.jpg?itok=Ftd4esdZ) 
![Five chiefs and two interpreters [version 2], c.1880 Five chiefs and two interpreters [version 2], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/0321.f.0026.jpg?itok=NuLjA4ET) 
 
![Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 2], c.1880 Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 2], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73594.jpg?itok=52Zy_l8f) 
 
![Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 1], c.1880 Anna Laura (Pretty Woman) [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_121701a.jpg?itok=mhJmMAE6) 
![Justine La Framboise [version 2], c.1880 Justine La Framboise [version 2], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_024a.jpg?itok=FF7AcQmi)