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 Levi St. Cyr.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Oswald Smith.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Abram Hill wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Mike Buffalo Thigh and Paul Good Bear [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73767.jpg?itok=m0H1Jn40 "Mike Buffalo Thigh and Paul Good Bear [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Mike Buffalo Thigh (left) and Paul Good Bear (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![William Morgan and Rose Howell [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74387.jpg?itok=U1Z7AWZt "William Morgan and Rose Howell [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of William Morgan and Rose Howell. Morgan is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Thomas Kose.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hulda Kinzhuna and Arnold Kinzhuna.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Arnold Kinzhuna (standing at right) and Hulda Kinzhuna (seated at left) with an unidentified boy and girl.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Student portrait of Morgan Kah-ka-neth-la.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Eunice Suison [version 1], 1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0064.jpg?itok=O0IB5p-g "Eunice Suison [version 1], 1888")
Studio portrait of Eunice Suisson, infant daughter of student Annette Suison.
The note reads: CHOATE, CARLISLE, PA.
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Eunice Mason Sois. Apache baby at Carlisle Indian School. 1888.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Talbot Goday wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Mike Buffalo Thigh and Paul Good Bear [version 2], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_087a.jpg?itok=1Ygpyd85 "Mike Buffalo Thigh and Paul Good Bear [version 2], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Mike Buffalo Thigh (left) and Paul Good Bear (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Eva Johnson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Albert Sitting Eagle (at left) and Thomas Blackbear (at right). Sitting Eagle is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Richard Davis and Paul Good Bear. Davis is probably standing at left, in non-native clothing, and Good Bear is probably standing at right in school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anna Goyitney probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Fred Harris.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Amelia Haswell.
Note: This image also contains partial caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Rose Howell.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Brule Iron Eagle Feather [version 1], 1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74393.jpg?itok=8v6QhyIc "Brule Iron Eagle Feather [version 1], 1888")
Studio portrait of Brule Iron Eagle Feather wearing school uniform.
Note: A handwritten caption written along the side of the image appears to contain the date 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Simon Smith (seated at right) and an unidentified male student (standing at left). The unidentified young man is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lambert Istone posed next to a bicycle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Ladeaux wearing a band uniform and holding a brass horn instrument.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Short Nose, Rosa Lewis, and Cora Poor Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Frank Lock [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74405.jpg?itok=LW3W2ZLM "Frank Lock [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Frank Lock.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution