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 Rose Wilde, Ella Rickert, and Mary Wilkinson.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Paul Hayne (seated) and Clark Gregg (standing).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Robert Hamilton.
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
![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
![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 Peter Howe.
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
Studio portrait of Alice Sheffield 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
![Jerome Kennerly [version 1], c.1893](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0060.jpg?itok=J7LVrZJN "Jerome Kennerly [version 1], c.1893")
The handwritten note reads: Jerome Kennerly, Piegan
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Carlisle Indian School.
Cabinet card photo of Jerome Kennerly around the time he enrolled at Carlisle at age 6
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 Joseph Culbertson.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Joseph Spaniard (also known as Joe Spanish).
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Charles Cusick.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Mary Cut Foot probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Kate Stocker wearing a school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Scott Crane.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Nelson Hare.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Eddie Running Crane.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Horse Looking (at left) and an unidentified male student (at right).
Note: The handwritten caption is difficult to read. The student at right may be Noah Hawk.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Myron Moses, Hiram Blackchief, and an unidentified young man, all wearing school uniforms.
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 Celicia Metoxen probably wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Emmeline McLane and Celinda Metoxen.
Note: This image contains partial caption information for other photographs.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society