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 twelve male students. The caption identifies them as from the Piegan nation and as having entered on March 26, 1890.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Buck (left) and Anthony Austin (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Richard Sanderville, William Leighton, and John Frost. Two are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Stephen Reuben wearing school uniform with a star-shaped pin.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Annie Boswell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Allie Blaine.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio of portrait of Jessie Bitter.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of twenty-two students-fifteen male and seven female students--posed on the steps of a brick building, presumably on the school grounds. The caption says that they are "Gros Ventres and Assiniboines, Ft. Belknap, Montana who entered Carlisle, Apr. 1890."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of twenty-one students--eleven male and ten female students--posed on the steps outside a brick building, probably on the school grounds. The caption says that they are "Crows from the Crow Agency, Montana, who entered Carlisle Indian School in 1890."
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-079 and 13-21-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of twenty people: one male student, eighteen female students, and one teacher. The caption identifies this as "Music Class, 1891." The NAA copy of this image identifies the teacher as Miss Moore. School records show the music teacher was Annie Moore.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lawney Shorty wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Julia Bent, probably wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Minnie Finley posed with violin.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of one female and ten male students, the graduating class of 1891.
They are, back row, left to right: Robert Matthews (seated), Martin Archiquette, John Tyler, William Froman, Charles E. Dagenett; middle row, seated, left to right: Henry Standing Bear, Etta Robertson, Levi St. Cyr, Harry Kohpay; front row, seated, Josiah Powlas and Yamie Leeds.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 18.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-024 and 15-22-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Richard Davis and his wife, Nellie Aspenall Davis, with their two daughters, Richenda and Mary. Richard and Nellie were former students who married at the school and became staff members. Their daughters were not enrolled at the school.
The handwritten note reads: Richard Davis (Cheyenne) Richenda - Mary Nannie Davis (Pawnee)
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Married at Carlisle Indian School and living there. 1894. This note does not reflect that date the photograph was taken, which, due to the ages of the daughters, was probably around 1891.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-054c and CS-CH-061.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Delia Randell (left) and Minnie Yandell (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio photo of thirteen male students. They are identified in the caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society copy of this image as being "Osage group, 1891."
A researcher at the Cumberland County Historical Society identified the students in their copy of this image as, top row, left to right: Claude Smith, Frank Penn, Amos Osage, Daniel McDougan; middle row, left to right: Elias Stanton, Harry Kophay, Richard Rusk, Ben Harrison, Fred Penn; bottom row, left to right: David Copperfield, George Conner, Amos Hamilton, Edgar McCarthy.
There is no Claude Smith in the school records from the Osage nation. Either this is Sioux student Claude Smith or it is Osage student Chester Smith.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Minnie Yandell.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Belknap Fox.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sarah Flynn wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of fourteen male students and nine female students. The caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society identifies them as from the Apache nation and gives a date of 1891 for the image. Previous catloging for this version also says they are Apache students but says there is a date of 16 January 1892 in the caption.
Staff at the Cumberland County Historical Society have identified, based on comparison with other photgraphs, that the following students are in this group: Parker Whitney West, Ernest Hogee, Viola Zieh, Dorothy Dekhlikiseh, Naomi Merkel (Kohten), Janette Woods (Pahgostatum), Annette Suisson, Oswald Smith, Jason Betzinez, and Gail Marko.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Mary Beaulieu.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Stephen Reuben in school uniform with star-shaped pin.
This photograph was almost definitely taken at the same time as the others linked to in Related Images.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of visiting chief Two Strikes.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of visiting chief Hollow Horn Bear.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society