Images

Studio portrait of Otto Zotoum, Levi St. Cyr, Chauncey Yellow Robe (also known as Timber Yellow Robe), and John Tyler. 

Studio portrait of Daniel Jackson (left) and Wallace Williams (right), both wearing school uniforms and holding their hats. 

Studio portrait of Wallace Williams (left) and David Tipsico (right), both wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Joseph H. Hamilton.

Studio portrait of Clarence White Thunder and an unidentified young man. 

Studio portrait of Clay Domieah. 

Studio portrait of George Ell (left) and Anthony Austin (right). 

Studio portrait of Emily Guitar and Lucy Guitar.

Studio portrait of William Ellis (left) and George Ell (right).

Studio portrait of thirteen unidentified female students.

Note: Previous cataloging states the handwritten caption says they are from the La Pointe reservation. 

Studio portrait of Julia Edwards. 

Note: This image also contains caption information for other photographs.

Studio portrait of Colonel Elk Horn. 

A handwritten caption along the top of the image probably reads: Colonel Horn.

Studio portrait of Sarah Walker. 

Note: In the Descriptive Statement of Pupils from Omaha and Winnebago Agency, September 19, 1890, a check mark appears next to the entry for Sarah Walker. Sarah Walker is the only student listed on this document who is not also listed in the admissions ledger, so it seems likely that, for whatever reason, Sarah Walker did not actually enroll at Carlisle.

Studio portrait of teacher Marianna Burgess. 

Studio portrait of teacher Alice M. Seabrook. 

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student. 

Studio portrait of two unidentified female students. 

Studio portrait of Lizzie Stands, seated with a hat on her lap.

Portrait of ten unidentified male students and thirteen unidentified female students posed with two white women, presumably teachers, on the steps outside a brick building. 

Studio portrait of seventeen unidentified male students in school uniforms with one white man in the center of the group. 

Previous cataloging has interpreted the caption to indicate the group is Cheyenne and that the date is January 1890. 

Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students and seven unidentified female students with one white woman. Previous cataloging identifies this group as "Miss Adams' Class." 

There are no records for a teacher named Miss Adams. This is probably teacher Clara C. McAdam who taught between 1890 and 1893. 

View of students and instructors posed with wheels in front of a brick building with the sign "Blacksmith and Wagon Shop." 

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-068b, PA-CH3-013a, and BS-CH-054. 

Group portrait of ten male students, nine in baseball uniforms with "Indians" on the front, some holding bats. One student is posed in the center, not in uniform.

Portrait of nineteen unidentified female students with a white woman, presumably a teacher, posed on the school grounds. 

Studio portrait of an infant posed in a cradleboard. 

This is a photograph of a photograph with the handwritten caption "Kiowa Pappoose." This image may have been taken of page 34 of Album 2 of the "Indian School Albums" now in the collection of the Cumberland County Historical Society (PA-CH2-034b), or it may have been taken before the print was added to the album. 

This photograph was originally taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston, probably at the Hampton Institute in 1899 when Johnston was there taking photographs of the Native American students. The image in the album may be a copy of the Johnston image, included among the images of Carlisle students, or it may be a copy made by Choate of the Johnston image, copied here again by Choate. 

Version 2 of this image, linked to in Related Images, is a print produced by Choate's studio. There is no indication that Choate credited Johnston for the original image. This was one of the photographs offered as a premium beginning in 1890 to subscribers of the school's Indian Helper newspaper, as were other photographs produced by (the others originally taken by) Choate. Those advertisements refer to this image as "pretty faced pappoose in Indian cradle."

Copies of the Johnston image are held by the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98519390/) and the Museum of Modern Art (https://www.moma.org/collection/works/57142). 

Note: The National Anthropological Archives has two different negatives, both images of the same print with the handwritten caption. They are NAA 73477 (NAA INV 06825100) and NAA 73527 (NAA INV  06830100).