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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The photograph was taken looking south. Moving from left to right the buildings visible are: the Superintendent's Quarters, the Administration Building, the Guard House, the Academic Building, and the back of the Girls' Quarters. Male students are visible in the foreground where a tennis court is laid out, and females students can be seen in the background. 

This image also appears in pamphlet United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 6. 

This print is marked as being by photographer John H. Andrews. However, it is possible that the image was originally taken by student photographer John Leslie, who is credited with many of the images in the pamphlet, and perhaps was only printed by Andrews. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Bessie Gotholda.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Kamie Owl wearing school uniform.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Richard Grant. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of a large group of male students with one white man in the center of the group posed in front of a school building. The caption identifies them as the Invincible Debating Society. 

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 56. It is captioned there: THE INVINCIBLE SOCIETY.

This society is an offshoot of the Standard and airly equals the parent society in equals the parent society in all departments of literary work, and is distinguished as the musical society.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Lydia Smith. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Caption: SKATING ON THE CONEDOGWINET.

Within a short distance of the School is the Conedogwinet Creek; in Summer a beautiful place for fishing and bathing, and in Winter, when the ice is good, a famous skating resort. The picture shows the Indian students and employees on the ice during holiday week.

This image appears in United States Indian School Carlisle, Penna (Carlisle, PA: The School, [1895?]), p. 34. No prints of this image have yet been located. 

Because no prints or negatives of this image have yet been found, we believe this photograph was probably taken by student photographer John Leslie. 

Format: Photograph, Reproduction

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Benjamin Green, William Little Hawk, and Edward Fritz. Two are wearing school uniforms. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Benjamin Green. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH3-066a and CS-CH-025. The second copy has the date December 3, 1895 written on the back. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Sidney Burr.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of three male and four female students. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: After School.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

Studio portrait of Alice Parker.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Charles Dickens (seated at left) and Mark Hopkins (standing at right). Dickens is holding a decorative beaded cane. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of six unidentified male students posed outside on the school grounds.

Format: Glass Plate Negative

Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Studio portrait of Margaret La Mere and Mary Miller.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Amelia Clark and Susan Gibbs.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Michael Couture. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Lucy Enter Lodge.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of Harold Parker, Laura Parker, and Juanada Parker. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student wearing a nurse's uniform. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Portrait of male students in uniforms with instruments posed on a stage. They are identified by the caption as being the Indian School Band in 1895. The band leader at this time was Dennison Wheelock (standing in center), an Indian School graduate. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of six female students, identified by the caption as "Grad girls of 95." This would identify them as Henrietta Fremont, Susie McDougal, Ida La Chapelle, Alice Lambert, Melissa Green, and Laura Long. 

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society

Studio portrait of James Fire Cloud.

Format: Photographic Print, B&W

Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society