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 Thomas Black Bull and Julia Walking Crane.
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
![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 Richard Wallace wearing an overcoat and holding a hat.
Note: Handwritten caption identifies this student as Dick Wallace.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![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
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 Morgan Toprock and Donald Water.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lucy Tsisnah, Burdett Tsisnah, and Virginia Nahaklo (seated). Lucy and Burdett were married to one another.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Louis Levering.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Lucy Tsisnah [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73749.jpg?itok=Zlhn0bMa "Lucy Tsisnah [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Lucy Tsisnah.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Andrew Conover wearing school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: A. Conover.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Frank Turewei, Yamie Leeds, Thomas Kose, and Bert Wetmore. All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Cochrane.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: William Cochrane.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Baird (standing) and Peter Cornelius (seated).
Note: There is no identification of the people in this image. The identification is based on comparison with other images of the two students.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Julia Given.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Burdett Tsis-nah [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73715.jpg?itok=i2M_gSaE "Burdett Tsis-nah [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Burdett Tsis-nah, posed with a hat and umbrella.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William White Bear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Archiquette, Libbie Archiquette (seated), and Sarah Archiquette (standing), in school uniform.
An illegible handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: William Archiquette with his two sisters.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
View of the Large Boys' Quarters, with students on the porches and in front of the building, probably taken in the winter.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Union Debating Society [version 2], c. 1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/13-6-_0001.jpg?itok=X_jffxF2 "Union Debating Society [version 2], c. 1888")
Portrait of a large group of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings.
The Cumberland County Historial Society has a print of this image which identifies the group as the Union Debating Society.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Republic Debating Society [version 1] c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74412.jpg?itok=yax-TBOT "Republic Debating Society [version 1] c.1888")
Portrait of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings.
The Cumber County Historical Society's print of this image identifies the group as the Republic Debating Society.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Republic Debating Society [version 2] c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/13-5-_0001.jpg?itok=OzB_FURK "Republic Debating Society [version 2] c.1888")
Portrait of unidentified male students, most in school uniforms, posed on the steps of one of the school buildings.
The Cumber County Historical Society's print of this image identifies the group as the Republic Debating Society.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Twenty-five members of the school band, posed on the steps of the Large Boys' Quarters, holding their instruments.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
![Fifteen Apache male students [version 2], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/13-3-_02.jpg?itok=Fz4N6JwN "Fifteen Apache male students [version 2], c.1888")
Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image. One identifies them as Apache students and the other as specifically San Carlos Apaches.
Records document fewer than fifteen male San Carlos Apache students ever attending the school, and they were not all there at the same time.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of staff member Philip Norman. Norman served as band leader and this is said to be his band leader uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society