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 Ernest Hogee.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nellie Robertson probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joel Cornelius wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Herbert Good Boy [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74207.jpg?itok=wCMCI_c9 "Herbert Good Boy [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Hebert Good Boy.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Mark Hopkins.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 2], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_040.jpg?itok=1W76-9vR "Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 2], 1892")
Portrait of a large group of male students in front of YMCA building, presumably the members of the YMCA. The date 1892 is written along the side of this image.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: FB03-21 and PA-CH2-040.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Peter Howe [?], Wiley Morgan, and Bedford Forest, c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_050a.jpg?itok=sgwFobe0 "Peter Howe [?], Wiley Morgan, and Bedford Forest, c.1892")
Studio portrait of Peter Howe [?], Wiley Morgan, and Bedford Forest.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Herbert Good Boy [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_099c.jpg?itok=Ybs96SOz "Herbert Good Boy [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Herbert Good Boy.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jonas Mitchell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 1], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73475.jpg?itok=p_rx8dP2 "Large group of male students in front of YMCA building [version 1], 1892")
Portrait of a large group of male students in front of YMCA building, presumably the members of the YMCA.
On the Cumberland County Historical Society's print of this image the date 1892 is written along the side.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![James Waldo [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74206.jpg?itok=_u1PVDkE "James Waldo [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of James Waldo.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Albert Sitting Eagle [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74089.jpg?itok=AohdPh5i "Albert Sitting Eagle [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Albert Sitting Eagle.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of James King (left) and Louis King (right).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Chauncey Yellow Robe (Timber Yellow Robe) wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Benjamin Doxtator.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Charlotte Wilson [version 2], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_050a.jpg?itok=FOdwZpig "Charlotte Wilson [version 2], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Charlotte Wilson.
Note: The identification of Wilson as Shawnee is a mistake. She is not identfiied as such in her school records.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Ben Harrison, John Morrison, Charles Dubray, and Martin Round Face [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73462.jpg?itok=JJGZuzP- "Ben Harrison, John Morrison, Charles Dubray, and Martin Round Face [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Ben Harrison, John Morrison, Charles Dubray, and Martin Round Face, posed holding Indian clubs.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Charles White, David McFarland, and Lewis Williams (also known as Luke Williams). All are wearing school uniforms.
Note: This image contains partial caption information for a different photograph.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Josiah Redwolf, Lewis Williams, Samuel Tilden, Stephen Reuben, Charles White, and David McFarland. All are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Officers group [version 1], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73472.jpg?itok=V7TbHG8v "Officers group [version 1], 1892")
Portrait of a large group of male students in uniforms, accompanied by a white man in the center of the bottom row, posed on the steps of one of the student quarters on the school grounds.
The Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image has a caption identifying the students as an Officers Group and providing a date of 1892. This plate also has 1892 scratched into it.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, William Crazy Bull, and Charles Smith [version 1], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_74007.jpg?itok=jHsMQbjJ "Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, William Crazy Bull, and Charles Smith [version 1], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Herbert Good Boy (back row at left) , Robert Horse (back row at right), William Crazy Bull (front row at left), and Charles Smith (front row at right). Crazy Bull is holding a framed portrait of a woman.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Julia Cobell and Susie Farwell.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Anthony Austin (seated left), Thomas Kose (standing left), Robert Hamilton (standing right), and Charles Buck (seated right) in school uniforms taken around 1892.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?], c.1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_067e.jpg?itok=Scuccd3f "Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?], c.1892")
Studio portrait of Dorothy Dekhlikiseh [?].
Note: The caption for this image is "Darthy Nol" (or possibly Darthy No 1"). There are no records for a student by that name. The only student named Dorothy who attended while Choate was taking photographs was Dorothy Dekhlikiseh.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Flying Horse (standing), wearing school uniform, and Chief Charging Shield (seated).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society