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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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 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 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

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 Thomas Stewart (left) and Nelson Hare (right).

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of nine female and ten male students. 

The top caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF 1894, INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

The lower caption reads: Flora Campbell, Alaskan. Howard Gansworth, Tuscarora. Thos. B. Bear, Sioux. Martha Napawat, Kiowa. Susie Metoxen, Oneida. Emmanuel Bellefeuille, Chippewa. Wm. H. Tygar, Shawnee. Belinda Archiquette, Oneida. Siceni Nori, Pueblo. Andrew Beard, Sioux. Henry Warren, Chipppewa. Wm. Denomie, Chippewa. Ida Warren, Chippewa. Hugh Sowcea, Pueblo. Minnie M. Yandell, Bannock. James D. Flannery, Alaskan. Florence L. Wells, Alaskan. Florence Miller, Stockbridge. Ida Powlas, Oneida.

The handwritten note on the reverse reads: Chas. W Buck.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 21.

The Cumberland County Historical Society also has a copy of this photograph (11-A-04). 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Anna McMillon probably wearing school uniform. 

Note: This image also contains partial caption information for a different photograph.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of ten unidentified male students in school uniforms. 

Previous cataloging identifies the students as from the Flathead or Salish nation and provides a date of January 189[?]. A group of Flathead students arrived in November 1893, so this is probably that group, taken in January 1894.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Celicia Metoxen probably wearing school uniform.

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 William Lufkins.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of twenty-three male students. The caption for this image, as well as the other copies, identifies them as students who worked in the print shop and gives a date of 1894. Other copies identify the sitters. They are: 

1st. Tier (presumably the back row), Robert Hudson, Leroy W. Kennedy, Leander Gansworth, William Denomie, Timothy Henry, Luther Dahhah, John Sanborn, William Dominick, William Lufkins, Sibbald Smith, Clark Gregg.

2nd. Tier (presumably the middle row): Siceni Nori, Phillip Lavatta, James Wheelock, Levi St. Cyr (Foreman), James Hill, Crow, Thomas Hanbury, Brigman Cornelius. 

3rd. Tier (front row): George Buck, Samuel Sixkiller, Pressly Houk, John Webster, Fred A. Wilson. 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Robert Hamilton.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Amy Johnson and Lucy Lowin.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of five unidentified female students and two unidentified male students. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of William Leighton wearing school uniform.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Minnie Yandell, probably wearing school uniform.

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

Studio portrait of Susie McDougal and Alice Lambert. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Thomas Hanbury.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of two female students. 

Note: The caption written on this photo identifies the sitters as Maggie and Kate and provides a date of 1894. It is possible that these are students Maggie Simpson and Kate Stocker, who are shown together in another photograph (Cumberland County Historical Society PA-CH3-020a). 

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of David McFarland wearing non-native clothing.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Cora Snyder wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society