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 Albert J. Minthorn and two unidentified young men.
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
Portrait of fifteen female students and seventeen male students with two white female teachers posed on the bandstand on the school grounds.
The caption on a print of this image identifies them as the "School Choir, 1893."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of three male students.
On the reverse is written: "To Hannah Long Wolf, June 15 1893 From Cousin W. W. Bear."
Presumably one of the students picture is William White Bear and the others are probably also people from his community.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Black Dog, an Osage chief.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The Carlisle Indian School exhibit titled Into Civilization and Citizenship at the World's Fair in 1893 held in Chicago, Illinois. The exhibit includes images of students, mannequins representing students, and other artifacts.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 38. The caption reads: THE WORLD'S FAIR EXHIBIT.
The exhibit of Carlisle School at the World's Fair compared avorably with the exhibits from other industrial schools of the country, and won for Carlisle diplomas from the Department of Liberal Arts and the Department of Agriculture. The School has also been awarded medals for exhibits made in Paris and Madrid, and other diplomas on less important occasions.
The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this image (PA-CH3-019a).
It is possible this image was taken by student photographer John Leslie.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Studio portrait of three visiting chiefs with one white man, four male students, and five female students.
Previous cataloging indicates the date May 1893 is included in the handwritten caption.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Black Dog, an Osage chief.
Previous cataloging interprets the handwritten caption as identifying this sitter as Ne-kah-ka-lah with a date of May 1893.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Jennie Tallchief taken while she was on outing with Mrs. Winifield Scott Davidson in Newville, Pennsylvania. Records show Tallchief was on outing there from April 21, 1893 to September 13, 1893.
The information on the back of the photograph identifies her as "Mrs. Winifield Scott Davidson's Indian girl from the Carlisle Indian School."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of three male and two female students.
The caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this image identifies the group as being Alaskan students. The caption on this version identifies one of the students as Edward Marsden (standing in the back row at left), and provides a date of September 1893.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of Dr. Carlos Montezuma with six women in nursing uniforms seated on the steps of a school building.
Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date September 1893.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of Dr. Carlos Montezuma with six women in nursing uniforms seated on the steps of a school building.
Previous cataloging for the NAA glass plate negative of this image indicates the handwritten caption contains the date September 1893.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-032b and 10B-06-02.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of three male students and two female students. They are identified in the caption as being Alaskan.
The National Anthropological Archives copy of this image identifies one of the people as Edward Marsen (standing in back row at left), and provides a date of September 1893.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Large group of male and female students posed in front of the end of a school building.
Previous cataloging indicates the date November 1893 is scratched into the National Anthropological Archives version of this image.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Large group of male and female students posed in front of the end of a school building.
Previous cataloging indicates the date November 1893 is scratched into this glass plate.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of male students with brass instruments and drums posed on the steps of a school building. The very large drum in the center has "Indian Industrial School. Carlisle, PA." on it.
Previous cataloging says that the image is dated November 1893.
This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 35. In this brochure the caption reads:
"THE SCHOOL BAND.
In 1880 a benevolent lady of Boston presented the school with a set of band instruments. Under its present leader, a graduate of the School, it has a recognized place among the good bands of the country, and has performed acceptably before critical audiences in our large cities, notably at the parades in New York and Chicago during the Clumbian Quadra-Centennial."
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of a large group of male and female students in school uniforms posed outside on the school grounds.
Previous cataloging indicates there is a date of November 1893 in the caption.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of a large group of male and female students posed on the steps of school building with Richard Henry Pratt and a white woman, presumably a teacher.
Previous cataloging indicates the caption has a date of November 1893.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Second school building with a few students on porches and a few people in front.
Previous cataloging provides a date of November 1893 for this image.
This building was built in 1888, replacing the original school building.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Portrait of twelve young male students, most in baseball uniforms with "C.C." on the front, posed with baseball equipment.
Note: The June 15, 1894 Indian Helper states that "The C.C.'s beat a team of little town boys on Saturday by a score of 15 to 21."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
A group portrait of a football team, date not known.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of the 1894 football team. Bejamin Caswell, the captain of the team, is in the center holding a football with "94" painted on it.
In The Red Man vol. 12 no 7 (Sept. Oct. Nov., 1894) this image was included as a supplement and the players identified. Back row: Joseph Irwin (Gros Ventre, Hidatsa), Charles Buck (Piegan), Martin Wheelock (Oneida), Bemus Pierce (Seneca), George Shelafo (Chippewa); Middle row: David McFarland (Nez Perce), Delos Lone Wolf (Kiowa), Benjamin American Horse (Sioux), Harvey Warner (Omaha), Harrison Printup (Tuscarora), Antoine Donnell (Chippewa); Front row: Thomas Schanandore (Oneida), Jonas Metoxen (Oneida), Bejamin Caswell (Chippewa), Anthony Austin (Piegan), Pressly Houk (Piegan).
This image also appears in brochure United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), page 33 with the caption: THE FOOT BALL TEAM has played games with the teams of the Naval Academy, Lehigh University, Bucknell, Dickinson and other colleges, with credit to themselves both for their playing and gentlemanly conduct.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Jonas Metoxen.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Julia Williams.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Baptiste Marengo.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society