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 an unidentified male student. Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the name Bautiste 10/88.
This may possibly be Bautiste Rowtsi (Queres nation).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Edwin Schanandore.
Previous cataloging indicates the written caption includes the date March 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Christopher Tyndall and Harry Shirley.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date March 7, 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of William Morgan wearing school uniform.
Note: A handwritten caption on this image dates it to April 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Group portrait of what are presumably all or most of the school's students at the time, taken on the grounds of the central campus looking towards the northeast with the Superintendent's House, the Assistant Superintendent's House, the Small Boys' Quarters, and the Hospital in the background.
An inscription on the reverse identifies the image as having been taken in May of 1888.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Baker (right) and Maurice Walker (Maurice Yellow Hair) (left).
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date June 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Samuel Dion.
Previous cataloging from the National Anthropological Archives for their version of this image identified a date of July 11, 1888 in the handwritten caption.
Note: In other school documentation Samuel Dion is known as Samuel C. Deon.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Dion.
Previous cataloging from the National Anthropological Archives identified a date of July 11, 1888 in the handwritten caption.
Note: In other school documentation Samuel Dion is known as Samuel C. Deon.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Brule Iron Eagle Feather wearing school uniform.
The National Anthropolgoical Archives version of this image dates it to October 1888.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
Studio portrait of Herbert Good Boy and John Pullim, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nancy Cornelius, probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Annette Suisson with with her daughter, Eunice Suisson.
Eunice was born at the school and was one of the infants known as the "Apache Babies."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Modoc Wind and Jonas Place.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date October 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Victor Tozoski (standing at left) and Roland Fish (seated at right).
Previous cataloging of the National Anthropological Archives version of this image indicates a date of October 1888.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alexander Manabove and Eagle Little Hawk.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date October 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Annette Suisson with her daughter Eunice Suisson.
Eunice was born at the school and was one of the infants known as the "Apache babies."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Cotton Wood (Cotton Wood Tree) wearing school uniform.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date October 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Nancy Cornelius, probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Victor Tozoski (standing at left) and Roland Fish (seated at right).
Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date October 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Lot Eyelash and Eli Hunlona; one is in school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Jennie Mitchell.
Note: Handwritten caption on this image dates it to November 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The printed note reads: BENJAMIN LOWRIE, WINNEBAGO. Entered Carlisle 1883; graduated 1890; spent several summers working on farms in Bucks Co., Pa.; is now employed as Govt. farmer at Winnebago Agency, Nebraska.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio portrait of Francis Ortiz.
Note: Previous cataloging indicates part of the handwritten caption on this image provides a date of November 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Jennie Dubray.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Jennie Dubray Nov. 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Casper Edson.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image reads: C. Edson, Nov. 1888.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution