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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![Simon King, Henry Williams, and Martin Christjohn [?], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74228.jpg?itok=z1BvpP0a "Simon King, Henry Williams, and Martin Christjohn [?], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Simon King (right), Henry Williams, and Martin Christjohn [?], all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Isaiah Wasaquam.
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
![Albert White Wolf [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73802.jpg?itok=KmUgNhGr "Albert White Wolf [version 1], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Albert White Wolf.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Hugh Leider.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Robert Hamilton wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Thirteen male Osage students [version 2], 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_063a.jpg?itok=1GJKPjN- "Thirteen male Osage students [version 2], 1891")
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 Joseph H. Hamilton (seated left), Robert Hamilton (standing) and Anthony Austin (seated right), all wearing school uniforms.
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 Cloud Bird, Frank Campeau, and Jacob Walker Cobmoosa, all in school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Cobell wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Richard Grant wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Allen Yuzos.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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
![Julia Bent [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_055b.jpg?itok=cyqqmCqV "Julia Bent [version 2], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Julia Bent, probably wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Stephen Reuben [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_033A.jpg?itok=KO0dolgP "Stephen Reuben [version 2], c.1891")
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 Mary Beaulieu.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mawbeens Waymegance.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Dagenett wearing school uniform.
A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Charles Dagenett.
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
![Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_020a.jpg?itok=ogr-6o1K "Chauncey Yellow Robe [version 2], c.1891")
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Dennison Wheelock with a cornet [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74283.jpg?itok=IDAULfsh "Dennison Wheelock with a cornet [version 1], c.1891")
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 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 a visiting chief, identified by the ribbon on his lapel as Young Man Afraid of Horses.
This image is also included as part of the composite group of visiting Sioux chiefs (linked to in Related Images). In that he is identified as Young Man Afraid of his Horses.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture
![Male and female students with Miss Hunt [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73276.jpg?itok=dU9Nlaem "Male and female students with Miss Hunt [version 1], c.1891")
Portrait of a large group of unidentified male and female students posed on the steps of a brick building with a white woman, identified in the caption as Miss Hunt. There are six small white children posed with them in the front row.
School records show Lydia Hunt worked as a teacher at the school from 1890 to 1892.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution