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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The caption reads:  #1 LITTLE HAWK,  #2 F. JANNIES,  #3 Wm. C. BULL.

The printed note reads: FRANK JANNIES, SIOUX, Entered Carlisle 1883; remained the full term of five years; was employed as a carpenter at Rosebud Agency S. Dak.; enlisted in the Army Dec. 1891; became 1st Sgt. Co. I, 16th Infry., and served as school teacher at the Post.  WM. C. BULL and SAMUEL LITTLE HAWK, also members of the same tribe, served their full term at Carlisle and enlisted in the Army July, 1892.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: No. 1 Sam L Hawk 3rd Sergt.  No. 2 Frank Jannies 3rd Sergt.  No. 3 Wm C. Bull 3rd Sergt. Co. For Captain.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Studio portrait of Annette Suison and Naomi Merkel.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of John Lonestar. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Lizzie Stands.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Annette Suison and Naomi Merkel. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Bunn Armstrong.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio photo of Ida Johnson.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Samuel Tilden. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Group portrait of the Juniors baseball team, with white coach or teacher in center. Both the uniforms and the caption identify them as the Juniors, one of several baseball teams at the school. The Indian Helper newspaper issue for April 1, 1892 mentions that the team had a photo taken a few days earlier.

The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this image identifies them as the 1892 team.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of a male student, possibly David Tipsico. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Student body assembled on the school grounds. The female students on the left and male on the right. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of school baseball team with C.I.T.S. on the front of their uniforms, with white coach or teacher in center. The handwritten caption identifies it as the 1892 team. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Group portrait of the Juniors baseball team, with white coach or teacher in center. Both the uniforms and the caption identify them as the Juniors, one of several baseball teams at the school. The caption identifies them as the 1892 team. The Indian Helper newspaper issue for April 1, 1892 mentions that the team had a photo taken a few days earlier.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of school baseball team with C.I.T.S. on front of their uniforms, with white coach or teacher in center.

The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this image identifies it as the 1892 team.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Little Dog, a Piegan chief.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Portrait of thirteen male students, most in athletic gear. The student in the center is holding a football with a "P" on it. 

Note: Previous cataloging for the National Anthropological Archives version of this image identifies the team as the "Pirates." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of thirteen male students, most in athletic gear. The student in the center is holding a football with a "P" on it. 

Note: Previous cataloging for this image identifies the team as the "Pirates." 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of a large group of male students in uniforms, accompanied by a white man, posed on the steps of one of the student quarters on the school grounds.

The caption identifies them as an "officers group" and the date as March 1892. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a very large group of male and female students posed on the school grounds, probably the entire student body of the school. The date March 1892 is written along the side of the image. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of ten students, five male and five female, identified in the caption as "Kiowa group." 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of five unidentified female students and five unidentified male students, one of whom is a small boy. 

Previous cataloging identifies them as from the Kiowa nation and provides a date of March 9, 1892 for the image.  

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of the school's Union Reserve baseball team, some in uniforms. 

The caption identifies the sitters as: top row (l to r), Joseph Harris, Jonas Place, Paul Lovejoy, Joseph Hamilton, Harry Hutchinson, and David Turkey; middle row (l to r), Felix Eagle Feather, John Baptiste, Fred Big Horse, and George Baker; front row (l to r), Morgan Toprock, John Yellow Robe, and Harry Kohpay. 

Based on the dates these students attended, this portrait must have been taken between 1890 and 1892. Most of the names correspond to those listed in the April 1, 1892 issue of the Indian Helper. The Union Reserves were one of several baseball teams at the school. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of eighteen female students, with one white woman in center, posed on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the King's Daughters and also as the Sunshine Scatters. The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of the image also identifies them as the Sunshine Scatters, but also names the white woman as Miss. Fisher and provides a date of October 1892. 

The school newspapers say that the student group the King's Daughters had four subgroups or "circles," and that one of them was the Sunshine Scatterers. Miss Effie (or Elspeth) Fisher was a employee of the school from 1881 to 1892, and would have been the "lead" of this circle. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of the Indian School band posed on the school grounds. The date October 1892 is part of the caption written on the plate. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of the Indian School band posed on the school grounds. The date October 1892 is part of the caption for this image. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-038 and 10-B-18. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society