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 Celicia Wheelock, Ida Wheelock, James R. Wheelock, and Dennison Wheelock. James and Dennison are wearing school uniforms.
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 Allie Blaine.
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 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 photographs, that the following students are in this group: Parker Whitney West, Ernest Hogee, Viola Zieh, Dorothy Dekhlikiseh, Naomi Merkel (Kohten), Janette Woods (Pahgostatum), Annette Suison, Oswald Smith, Jason Betzinez, and Gail Marko.
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
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 twelve male students. Caption information for the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image states that they are from the Piegan nation and entered on March 26, 1890.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles Buck (left) and Anthony Austin (right).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of five male students (all wearing school uniforms) and five female students. Previous cataloging interprets the caption as identifying the students as Pawnee, and naming three of them as Rose Howell, Phoebe Howell, and Ann Townsend. Rose and Phoebe were both Pawnee students. There is no student named Ann Townsend so this may actually be Sam Townsend, referring to Pawnee student Samuel Townsend.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Annie Boswell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Louis Caswell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bunn Armstrong in school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The caption reads: RICHARD DAVIS, CHEYENNE.
The printed note reads: Born 1867 at Sand Creek, Col., entered Carlisle 1879; learned the Printers' trade. In 1888, married Nannie Aspenall, a Pawnee girl, at Carlisle, and worked for a Penna. farmer engages in raising thoroughbred stock. He has been in charge of the School herd of 65 thoroughbred and graded animals and the Dairying until the Summer of 1894 when he was appointed District Farmer of the Cheyenne Agency.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Studio of portrait of Jessie Bitter.
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 Mary Beaulieu.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of eleven unidentified male students and two unidentified female students.
Previous cataloging indicates the students are from the Osage nation and provides a date of 1891 for this image. George Conner is seated right in the center of the photo, and Amos Hamilton appears standing, third male student from the left.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of George Baker.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 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 William Crazy Bull (seated in school uniform) and Chief Little Wound (seated left), Chief Big Roads, an unidentified man (probably another visiting chief), and an unidentified young man (probably a student).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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 Cloud Bird, Frank Campeau, and Jacob Walker Cobmoosa, all in school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio photo of thirteen male students, identified in the caption as being "Osage group, 1891.
A researcher at the Cumberland County Historical Society identified as the students 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 Connor, 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 is it Osage student Chester Smith.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
