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 Jack Stewart, Thomas Stewart, and Charles Yarlot, all wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of John Morrison, Martin Round Face, and James Waldo. Two of them are wearing school uniforms.
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 Hayes Williams.
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
Studio portrait of Martha Washington wearing school uniform.
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 William Brewer and his sister Rachel Brewer, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Lulu Bisonette probably wearing school uniform.
Note: This student is identified as Lula Bisnett in the caption.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nellie Barada.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Bunn Armstrong.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph American Horse.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Johnson Adams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Seventeen male Sioux students [version 1], 1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73422.jpg?itok=pJ-5TwH7 "Seventeen male Sioux students [version 1], 1893")
Studio portrait of seventeen male students, some wearing school uniforms. The caption for this image identifies them as being from the Pine Ridge reservation. The caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society copy identifies them as being from the Sioux nation and provides a date of 1893.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![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
![Peter Cadot and David [?], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_043j.jpg?itok=fNK1NnV5 "Peter Cadot and David [?], c.1893")
Studio portrait of Peter Cadot and David [?].
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 two small children with an infant. There is a caption written at a later date, probably by Cumberland County Historical Society staff, that identifies them as the children of Indian School staff members (and former students) Richard Davis and Nellie Aspenall Davis. That makes the two small children Richenda and Mary Davis, who also appear in other photographs. The infant is probably Esther Davis, who was born in 1892.
Richenda and Mary were not enrolled as students.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Andrew Red Duck.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Elmore Red Eyes and Benjamin American Horse.
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
![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
![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 George Running Horse and Alexander Manabove.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Artie Miller.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society