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 Willis Black Bear. Handwritten caption along side of image probably reads: Willis B. Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Jonas Place, Justin Shedee, and Modoc Wind.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Jasper Kanseah, Alfred Eateh, and Joseph Ezhuna [version 1], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74205.jpg?itok=xSYEKWG- "Jasper Kanseah, Alfred Eateh, and Joseph Ezhuna [version 1], c.1887")
Studio portrait of Jasper Kanseah (seated at left), Alfred Eateh (standing at right), and Joseph Ezhuna (seated on floor at right), all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Phillips (left) and Fred Harris (right). Phillips is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Etta Robertson [version 1], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74224.jpg?itok=P3IyX7ny "Etta Robertson [version 1], c.1887")
Studio portrait of Etta Robertson wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Jennie Dubray [version 2], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_088c.jpg?itok=8lBOPjp- "Jennie Dubray [version 2], c.1887")
Studio portrait of Jennie Dubray.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jonas Place and Morgan Toprock.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Phillips wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Paul Shattuck wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Susie Bond and Susie Gray [version 2], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_056b.jpg?itok=kD7VGyyq "Susie Bond and Susie Gray [version 2], c.1887")
Studio portrait of Susie Bond and Susie Gray, both possibly wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anson Garlick and Thomas Kose.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![James Y. Miller [version 2], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_100a.jpg?itok=qhkYCY0m "James Y. Miller [version 2], c.1887")
Studio portrait of James Y. Miller.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Annette Suisson [version 1], c.1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73818.jpg?itok=5fLe2j38 "Annette Suisson [version 1], c.1887")
Studio portrait of Annette Suisson wearing a floral print dress.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Ramona Chihuahua.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Reuben Wolf (left) and Robert Matthews (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Phoebe Howell.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Margaret Yates.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Obadiah Given posed in the dispensary of the hospital.
Note: School records show Dr. Given worked at the school between 1884 and 1889.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH1-080b and BS-CH-050.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of three male students and nineteen female students.
Students Thomas Blackbear and Henry Standing Bear are probably in the group.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Small Boys' Quarters [version 1], c. 1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/00331B%233.jpg?itok=OiVKu_Vz "Small Boys' Quarters [version 1], c. 1887")
View of the Small Boys' Quarters with several younger male students standing in front, some with brooms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of the chapel after additions were made to both sides of the building. Four students, one female, are posed near the front door.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
School nurse Margaret Wilson and Dr. Obadiah Given posed with a student lying in a bed in the ward of the school hospital.
Note: School records show Wilson worked at the school from 1881 until 1889. Given was employed there from 1884 to 1889.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View of young male and female students wearing uniforms seated at desks in a schoolroom. There is a row of male students standing at the rear in front of a chalk board. The students have their faces turned to the photographer.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Small Boys' Quarters [version 2], c. 1887](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/LS-D089.jpg?itok=ja42RB-7 "Small Boys' Quarters [version 2], c. 1887")
View of the Small Boys' Quarters with several younger male students standing in front, some with brooms.
Format: Lantern Slide
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alfred J. Standing, Assistant Superintendent of the School.
According to school records, Standing was employed at the school from 1881 until at least 1901.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society