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 Jennie Mitchell (at left) and Nellie Carey (at right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of twenty-one students-eleven male and ten female-posed on the steps outside a brick building, probably on the school grounds. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of the image identifies them as "Crows from the Crow Agency, Montana, who entered the Carlisle Indian School in 1890."
Previous cataloging for this image interprets part of the caption scratched on the plate as giving a date of 1897.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Paul Good Bear and Joseph Spaniard.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alice Hayes probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Phemister wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Rachel Tsikahda Morgan wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Minnie Perrine.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Henry Phillips wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Isaiah Wasaquam.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Maggie Old Eagle.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Peter Camp, Belknap Fox, Charles Knor, and William Ball, from Fort Belknap.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Christine Redstone wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Bunn Armstrong in school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of William Johnson and William Beaulieu.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 Cloud Bird, Frank Campeau, and Jacob Walker Cobmoosa, all in school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Cameo photographs of seventeen Sioux chiefs, all of whom visited the school in mid-February 1891 and presumably had these portrait photos taken by John N. Choate. The grouping is titled "Noted Indians" and has a copyright date of 1891. Each chief is identified by a white tag applied to his lapel. They are identified as:
Top row, left to right: Spotted Elk, Hollow Horn Bears, Big Road
Second row, left to right: Spotted Horse, Little Wound, Fire Thunder, Grass
Third row, left to right: High Hawk, Good Voice, High Pipe
Fourth row, left to right: Fire Lightening, Quick Bear, American Horse, He Dog (Pine Ridge Agency)
Bottom row, left to right: Young Man Afraid of His Horses, Two Strikes, He Dog (Rosebud Agency).
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-023 and 12-10-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martin Round Face wearing a uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of James Pontiac wearing 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 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 Frank Keiser and Maggie Keiser. Frank is in a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Orpha Miller.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Martin Round Face and Albert Hensley.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution