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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Displaying 1801 - 1825 of 3996 records

Studio portrait of Bunn Armstrong in school uniform.

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 the group of "Miss Moore with her music class." School records show Annie Moore was the music teacher at that time. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of the image dates it to 1891.  

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Chester Smith.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of twenty-three students, fourteen male and nine female students, identified in the caption as "Apache Group, 1891." 

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: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of young woman wearing school uniform, probably student Rosalie Ereaux.

The caption reads: Rosalie Roso. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of fourteen male students, identified in the caption as "Pueblo group, 1891." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Julia Bent, probably wearing a school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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

Studio portrait of Anna Tabasash.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Rachel Tsikahda Morgan wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Harry Hutchinson, John Baptiste, and David Turkey, all probably wearing school uniforms.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Alexander Upshaw wearing a uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Cameo photographs of seventeen Sioux chiefs, all of whom presumably had visited the school and had their portraits 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-CH2-024 and 12-10-01.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Albert White Wolf.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Peter Camp, Fox Belknap, Charles Knor, and William Ball.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Hugh Leider.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Dennison Wheelock wearing a band uniform, holding a cornet and a conductor's baton.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Alice Hayes probably wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Amos Hamilton.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Thomas Flynn and John Kennedy.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Joseph H. Hamilton holding a straw hat. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of James Riley Wheelock (right) and Martin Wheelock, both wearing school uniforms.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Felix Iron Eagle Feather. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of William Johnson and William Beaulieu.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution