Images

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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Existing building (the South Barracks) used as the first school building in which classes were taught. 

This building was demolished in July 1888 and replaced with a new building for the same purpose.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of the school grounds showing the chapel and the superintendent's quarters on the right and the teachers' quarters on the left. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Male and female students posed in rows on the school grounds in front of the superintendent's house. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Cook with his daughter, student Grace Cook. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

View of the side of the Large Boys' Quarters, showing the row of trees and path in front of the building. The view was probably taken looking towards the northwest, with the fence in the background marking the boundary of the school campus. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Carte de visite image of Winnie (White Woman), among the first party of students from Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations, believed to be taken about 2 months after arrival.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Nellie Carey, posed leaning on a bale of hay and holding a lacy white object, probably a hat. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

Studio portrait of eleven unidentified male students in school uniforms. 

The caption here identifies them as being Northern Arapaho.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

Studio portrait of Charles Kawboodle.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

Studio portrait of two unidentified male students in school uniforms, identified in the caption as "Oscar and Davis, Cheyennes."

They are probably Richard Davis and Oscar Bull Bear. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

Male students working in the schools shoemaking shop. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

Studio portrait of Joseph Wisecoby and Moses Nonway, both wearing school uniforms and holding hats.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

View of students and instructor posed working in front of the blacksmith's shop. One student is shoeing a horse. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Princeton University Library, Department of Special Collections

Portrait of a group of Native American men, white men, with one male student and two female students posed in front of a dormitory building on the school grounds. Richard Henry Pratt is standing at the far left. The caption in the album states that they are from the Great Nemaha Agency and that the photo was taken on February 25, 1880.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a group of Native American men, white men, with one male student and two female students posed in front of a dormitory building on the school grounds. Richard Henry Pratt is standing at the far left.

The caption in the album for the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this image states that they are from the Great Nemaha Agency and that the photo was taken on February 25, 1880. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose, Ella Hippy, Fanny (Knife Holder), Mabel Doanmoe, and Laura Doanmoe.

The caption identifies Lucy Black Shortnose as Lucy Cheyenne and Fanny (Knife Holder) as Fanny Kawboodle. 

The caption for another version of this image (10-B-04) provides a date of March 1880.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-022a, 10-B-04, and CS-CH-062.1-.2. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Alice Wynn (back left), Kisetta Roosevelt (back middle), Mabel Doanmoe (back right), Rebecca Big Star (front left), and Harriet Mary Elder (front right). All are wearing school uniforms.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society dates this image to March, 1880. The Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-023c, 10-B-06, and 13-14-02. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of seven unidentified male students in school uniform. 

The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society's version of this image identifies the students as from the Kiowa nation and provides a date of March 1880. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of seven unidentified male students in school uniforms. 

The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society's version of this image identifies the students as from the Cheyenne nation and provides a date of March 1880.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Lucy Black Shortnose, Ella Hippy, Fanny (Knife Holder), Mabel Doanmoe, and Laura Doanmoe.

One of the Cumberland County Historical Society's versions of this image (10-B-04) provides a date of March 1880. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of ten unidentified male students wearing school uniforms. 

The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image identifies them as from the Cheyenne nation and dates it to March 1880. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Bernard (Hawk Charging Daylight) (standing at left), Horace (Horse) (standing at right), Reuben Quick Bear (Kills the Enemy) (seated at left), John Renville (seated in center), and Rufus (Strikes the Enemy (seated at right). All are wearing school uniforms.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society dates this image to March, 1880. They have six copies of the image: 10-B-08.1-.3; 13-08-01, and PA-CH1-021a.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of seven unidentified male students in school uniforms. 

The caption identifies them as being from the Cheyenne nation and provides a date of March 1880.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of five male students and four female students, identified in the caption as being from the Arapaho nation. The caption provides a date of March 1880.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portratit of ten unidentified male students in school uniforms. The caption identifies them as being from the Cheyenne nation and provides a date of March 1880. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society