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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Studio portrait of Emanuel Powless.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Jenoson Schanadore in athletic clothing. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Perry Tsamanwa wearing school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Daniel Jackson.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Perry Kennerly wearing school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of male and female students posed on steps of a building on the school grounds. The caption says that they are "Assiniboine and Yankton Sioux from Fort Peck, Montana." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of sixteen male students and four female students, all wearing school uniforms. 

The handwritten caption on this album page, located between PA-CH-014a and this image (PA-CH2-14c) reads "Crow groups," so it is presumed that both of these groups of students are from the Crow nation. The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image also identifies them as Crow students.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of a Native American man. A later caption identifies him as "Na-chi-si, New Mexico Apache." Presumably he was a chief visiting the school. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

A composite of 16 photographs of the school. The captions read: Small Boys’ Quarters, Ass’t. Supt’s. Quarters, Superintendent’s Quarters, Chapel, Guard House, Hospital, Disciplinarian’s Quarters, Band Stand, After School, School Building, Large Boys’ Quarters, Christmas Dinner, School Room, Office & Teachers’ Quarters, Gymnasium, Girls’ Quarters, Girls’ Industrial Hall and Dining-room, Shops.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of twelve male students. The caption says they are "Pine Ridge Sioux" and identifies them as: 

Front row, seated: Thomas Black Bear, Alexander Man Above, Charles Smith, Andrew Beard, Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, and Phillip White.

Back row, standing: Samuel C. Deon, James One Star, Howard Slow Bull, Charles Brave, and Willis Black Bear. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The Mishler family sits for a portrait around 1890. Two members of the Mishler family, Louis Jr. and Charles, would attend the Carlisle Indian School.

Standing, left to right: Charles Mishler, Louis Mishler Jr.

Sitting, left to right: Louis Mishler Sr., [unidentified], Margaret McCarthy Mishler

This image was digitized from the private collection of Pat Monroe, descendant of Louis Mishler.

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Private Collection

Studio portrait of seventeen male students, identified as "printer boys." 

The National Anthropological Archives has two negatives of this image: NAA 73642 and NAA 73382. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image has the date 1890 in the caption.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of seventeen male students, identified as "printer boys." 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-058d and CS-CH-084. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of David Abraham dressed in a uniform, probably a band uniform.

A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: David Abraham

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of a large group of female students with one white woman in the center, posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the Endeavor Society and dates the image to 1890. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-007 and 10-B-21. The caption for the latter copy names the group as the Endeavor Literary Society. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of male students, some holding instruments, with a white man in the center of the bottom row. They are posed on the front steps of a building on the school grounds. The caption states that this is the student group, "Invincible Society, 1890." 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-008 and 10-B-32. The latter copy identifies this group as the Invincible Literary Society. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of male students, some in school uniforms and some not, posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds. There is a white man standing at the far right of the group. The caption states that this is the student group "Standard Society, 1890."

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-009 and 10-B-20. In the latter, the group is identified as the Standard Literary Society. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of male students, some in uniform, some not, posed on the school grounds with fence and trees in background. There is a white man in the center of the group. The caption states that this is the student group, "Standard Society, 1890." 

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 55. It is captioned there:  THE STANDARD DEBATING SOCIETY.

The Standards represent the oldest Literary Society of the School and have had under various names twelve years of life. From a very crude beginning, through much coaching and fostering, its members have developed a society of debaters in which live questions of national and international policy, as well as grave ethical questions, are discussed, much to the benefit of the students and the School.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Malpass Cloud and an unidentified young man, both wearing school uniforms. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Louis Caswell (left) and Benjamin Caswell (right).

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Benjamin Caswell.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Rose Aubrey and Alice Aubrey.

Handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Rose and Alice Aubrey.

Note: Rose was one year younger than Alice, and so is probably the girl on the left. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of nine male students, identified by the caption as being from the Nez Perce nation.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Frank Campeau.

Note: A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Frank Campeau.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of William Carefelle wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society