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 Fred Penn wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Sarah Kennedy (left), Helen Patterson (right), and Ely Parker (center).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hayes Williams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of eleven unidentified female students. The caption identifies them as The What-So-Ever circle.
The What-So-Evers were a "circle" or a subgroup of the female student group the King's Daughters.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-085 and 10-B-22. Caption on the back of the latter copy says that the photograph was taken for the leader of the group, Miss Shaffner.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Wilkinson wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Ella Rickert probably wearing school uniform.
Note: This image also contains caption information for a different photograph.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lucy Cloud and Sarah Williams, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of George Running Horse and Alexander Manabove.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Sanborn and Victor S. Bear. One is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jack Stewart, Thomas Stewart, and Charles Yarlot, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![School Choir [version 2], 1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_003.jpg?itok=YnF2muTr "School Choir [version 2], 1893")
Portrait of fifteen female students and seventeen male students with two white female teachers posed on the bandstand on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the "School Choir, 1893."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alpha Scott.
Note: This image also contains caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Seventeen male Sioux students [version 2], 1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_004.jpg?itok=mVuMi1Xh "Seventeen male Sioux students [version 2], 1893")
Studio portrait of seventeen male students, some wearing uniforms, some not. The caption identifies them as from the Sioux nation.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Alice Sheffield wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Martha Washington wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified man.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of five male and one female students, the graduating class of 1893.
They are, back row, standing, left to right: Malcolm Clark, Fred Big Horse, Arthur Johnson; front row, sitting, left to right: John Baptiste, Emily Peake, John G. Morrison.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 20.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH3-002, 11-A-03 and 15-26-01.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of Edith Smith wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Florence Walton and Cynthia Webster, both wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Rose Wilde, Ella Rickert, and Mary Wilkinson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Elmore Red Eyes and Benjamin American Horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Andrew Light.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Peter Nahmais [?], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_061c.jpg?itok=l77H4rpt "Peter Nahmais [?], c.1893")
Studio portrait of Peter Nahmais [?].
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Wells.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Wood-cutting class [version 1], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73414.jpg?itok=Ensfboa7 "Wood-cutting class [version 1], c.1893")
Studio portrait of five female students and six male students identified in the caption as being the wood cutting class.
The school newspaper referenced the wood cutting class in January 1893.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution